Conor Linehan

Conor Linehan is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Psychology at University College Cork, where he is a member of the People and Technology research group and co-director of the BA in Psychology and Computing. Linehan completed both a BA (2003) and PhD (2008) in Psychology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and held a lectureship in Computer Science at the University of Lincoln from 2010 to 2015 before joining University College Cork. Research interests span human-computer interaction, the design of games and gamification for educational and health contexts, digital behaviour change interventions, and, more recently, the social and epistemic dimensions of deepfake technology and misinformation. Linehan is a member of Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, and has served as principal or co-investigator on grants totalling more than three million euros.