Conor Linehan

Conor Linehan is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Psychology at University College Cork, Ireland, and a member of the People and Technology research group. Linehan holds BA and PhD degrees in Psychology from Maynooth University and previously served as a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science at the University of Lincoln from 2010 to 2015. Linehan's research expertise spans Human-Computer Interaction with particular focus on the design and evaluation of technology to support education and health behaviours, including work on educational games, gamification, vision therapy interventions, dietary interventions, wearable sleep monitors, and online mental health interventions. Linehan has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers, accumulating more than 3,000 citations according to Google Scholar metrics, and has served as principal investigator or co-investigator on research grants exceeding €3 million; Linehan is also a member of Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, and serves as co-director of University College Cork's BA in Psychology and Computing.