Isabelle standing in front of her poster, entitled “Who are We? A qualitative study of children’s national and European identities and inclusion of minorities”

Loved (re-)connecting with colleagues in #DevelopmentalPsychology at #SRA2026 and hearing about new and exciting research🤩

And of course, I enjoyed fruitful conversations at today’s poster blitz, where I shared my @researchireland.ie PhD! 🥳

@helpingkidslab.bsky.social @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social

I'll be presenting the second study of my @researchireland.ie funded PhD, "Who are we? A qualitative study of children's #national and #European identities and #Inclusion of #Minorities" (w/ @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social)

#SocialIdentity #IrishIdentity #EuropeanIdentity #DevPsy #SocialPsych

#DevPsy #SocialPsych @researchireland.ie

Excited to be attending #SRA2026 with @helpingkidslab.bsky.social colleagues! You can catch me in the poster blitz session on Sat, or at one of the many fantastic talks before then :)

That is, if I haven't snuck back over to Toronto Island for another glimpse of the skyline...

#DevPsy #SocialPsych

Come and work at my lab!

The @helpingkidslab.bsky.social are hiring a PhD and postdoc, I can’t stress enough how much I love working with these lovely people!

At our first #LabMeeting after winter break, Maddie and Tara practiced conducting the school survey for feedback. ✨ Thanks both!

📣 Still recruiting #Teachers and #Parents (4th–6th class).

#SocialPsych #Research #Education #DevelopmentalPsychology #HelpingKidsLab #IrelandEd #Teacher #Teaching

#DevPsy #SpeirGorm #IrelandEd

📢 Calling all 8-12 year olds!

I’m excited to share that the UCD Cognition, Development, and Learning Lab is currently recruiting participants for a new study!

This research project, #AdoAI, comes from an exciting collaboration with @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social & Seçil Gönültaş, and is being carried out by our fantastic Masters students, Tara Burns and Maddy Cometa.

It is funded by @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social has ethical approval from @ucddublin.bsky.social

🌟 Participation also comes with chances to win vouchers, prizes and learn about scientific research.

📝Principal consent form: ucdpsychology.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

##IrelandEd #Teacher #Education #Teaching #SocialPsych #DevPsy #SpeirGorm

📣 Calling all parents and teachers of SECONDARY SCHOOL students!

🔍 We have another exciting in-school study launching recruitment, this time for teenagers in #SecondarySchool across Ireland - all about #Bullying, #AdviceSeeking and #Intervention against bullying.

@helpingkidslab.bsky.social

🧵👇

Principal consent form: ucdpsychology.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

This research is funded by @researchireland.ie and has ethical approval from the @ucddublin.bsky.social Human Research Ethics Committee.

#LoveIrishResearch #SocialPsych #DevPsy #SpeirGorm

🥳Our first #ChildScientist testing out our booklet ahead of our school visits! We loved learning what being #Irish and #European means to him.

🤔If you’re a parent or teacher of children in 4th, 5th or 6th class, we are still recruiting schools. See poster for info!

@lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social

@helpingkidslab.bsky.social @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social @ucdresearch.bsky.social @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social reposts appreciated :)

📝Principal consent form: ucdpsychology.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

This research is funded by @researchireland.ie & has ethical approval from the @ucddublin.bsky.social Human Research Ethics Committee.

#SocialPsych #DevPsy #EuropeanIdentity #Nationalldentity #IrishIdentity #LovelrishResearch

🤩 Children would receive #ChildScientist certificates, schools would receive vouchers, and we are very happy to talk to your pupils all about science and research in psychology :)

💭Want to get involved? Ask your principal to fill in the consent form, or feel free to DM with questions!

📣Calling all #Teachers and/or #Parents of children in 4th, 5th and 6th class!

👫We are conducting an in-school study with children around the country, all about what it means to be Irish and European, and the implications for inclusion in #Ireland.

🧵👇

#IrelandEd #Teacher #Education #Teaching

Yesterday, we had our last #LabMeeting before the winter break. 🎄
We had the chance to listen to the wonderful @iniccraith.bsky.social presenting her PhD research and future studies on social identity and culture!

#SocialPsych #Research #PhD #DevelopmentalPsychology #HelpingKidsLab

Woohoo!!! Congratulations Laura, I am so excited to watch this project unfold :)

Can’t wait to have Dr Tina Merrilees here next week @ucddublin.bsky.social thanks to BICS support from @ucdgearyinst.bsky.social

Join us for a GIRSI masterclass 👇👇

Register here forms.gle/Pe1ovrXHdB4z...

This was my Cyprus book when we went to EARA last year - glad you enjoyed!!

Loads of good questions from the group.

And, of course great quotes teaching us Olds new online lingo 🤣😅

But, really, @iniccraith.bsky.social participatory and creative ways to engage kids to talk about and explore identities #slayed.

#LoveIrishResearch
@researchireland.ie

At todays #LabMeeting, we got to listen to an amazing presentation about Izzy’s research on how children and adolescents co-construct their ideas about national and European identities!

Learn more about her work here: @iniccraith.bsky.social ✨✨

#SocialPsy #Socialidentity #HelpingKidsLab #Lab

We can’t wait to share @aspbelong.bsky.social work with our @ucddublin.bsky.social colleagues at a @ucdgearyinst.bsky.social seminar series on 7 Oct.

Following us here and @helpingkidslab.bsky.social to learn more!

Maddy is ALSO joining our #Ado-AI team and we are so happy to have her on board!

Excited to work with Maddy and Tara on this new cross-cultural collaboration.

#DevPsyc

Delighted to have Tara joining our #Ado-AI team with @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social & Seçil Gönültaş - thanks to funding from @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social 😍

We'll be exploring AI as #EpistemicAuthority in the context of #Bullying and #BystanderInterventions among #Adolescents! 🔍

#DevPsy

Hahaha, noted! ;)

An image of the Radcliffe Camera and University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, UK.

An image of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK.

Isabelle is standing beside a podium, smiling and leaning against the podium. Behind her, there is a Powerpoint slide being projected. This features a photograph of her, with "Isabelle Nic Craith, PhD candidate, Helping Kids! Lab, University College Dublin, isabelle.niccraith@ucdconnect.ie, https://isabelleniccraith.owlstown.net/" beneath it. There is also a picture of Dr Laura K. Taylor, with "Laura K. Taylor, Associate Professor, Helping Kids! Lab, University College Dublin, laura.taylor@ucd.ie, https://lauraktaylor.wordpress.com/" written on it. Beneath this, there is text reading "Thanks also to Dr Christina Seery, Christina Koretsidou, Dr Vivian Liu, the Helping Kids! Lab and Group Processes and Social Inclusion group for feedback on drafts of this manuscript, participants and teachers at the 2025 Social Identity Summer School for their feedback on this project, Maeve Kelehan and Tara Conlon for their support with data collection, Ciara Durand for her support with analysis, and all participants, parents, teachers and schools for being so generous with their time. This research is funded by the Taighde Éireann - Research Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship to Nic Craith, GOIPG/2023/4031."

Isabelle is standing behind a podium with her hands clasped. Behind her, there is a Powerpoint slide being projected. This features a photograph of young people holding up their hands, and the text "GENERATION PEACE: Developing & Validating a Youth Peacebuilding Beliefs Scale (YPBS). Liu, V., Corbett, B., Duarte-Valderrama., J. V., Eisner, L., Grütter, J., Halperin, E., Hässler, T., Pineda-Marin, C., Ushomirsky, L., Taylor, L. K."

Had a wonderful time at the @bps-social-psych.bsky.social 2025 conference in the beautiful University of Oxford🤗

Thanks to all who attended my talks, one on my @researchireland.ie PhD & the other on the @helpingkidslab.bsky.social Generation Peace project.

#SocialPsyc #PhDSky #DevPsy #AcademicSky

Our last speaker of the session is @iniccraith.bsky.social who's here to talk about European and national identities in Ireland through a qualitative exploration of what it means to be Irish and European 🧵4/4

Helping Kids! is at @bps-social-psych.bsky.social!

Representing the lab is @iniccraith.bsky.social - sharing one talk today about her @researchireland.ie PhD, and one talk tomorrow about our #GenerationPeace study 👏

#SocialPsyc #DevPsy