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| Personal Information | ||
| Name | Freeney, Yseult | |
| Main Department | Business Studies | |
| College Title | Research Associate | |
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| Biography | |
| Yseult Freeney completed her BA in Psychology in UCD in 1999 and was awarded a UCD postgraduate scholarship. Following the completion of her PhD on work engagement and burnout in 2007, she lectured and managed the tutorial and mentoring programmes in the UCD School of Psychology. She has expanded her research to include student engagement issues both at second and third level, including a study funded by Combat Poverty Agency. Yseult was awarded an IRCHSS Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in 2009 to continue her work in the area of engagement. This brought her to work as a Research Fellow in the School of Business, Trinity College, Dublin. Her research now focuses on work and study engagement in healthcare and educational organisations. Yseult is a Registered Psychologist with the Psychological Society of Ireland as well as Chair Elect of the PSI Division of Work and Organisational Psychology. | |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| Registered Psychologist, Psychological Society of Ireland | ||
| Hon. Secretary, Division of Work and Organisational Psychology, PSI | 2007 | Present |
| Awards and Honours | |
| Award | Date |
| UCD Scholar | 2002 |
| IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellowship | 2009 |
| Publications |
| Peer Reviewed |
| Freeney, Y. & O’Connell, M.F., The intention to leave education early among Irish Junior Certificate Students: Variation by school. , Irish Educational Studies | |
| Freeney, Y. & O'Connell, M.F., The Predictors of the Intention to Leave School Early among a representative sample of Irish second-level students, British Educational Research Journal | |
| Freeney, Y. & O’Connell, M.F. , Wait for it: Delay-discounting and academic performance among an Irish adolescent sample. , Learning and Individual Differences. , 20, 2010, p231 - 236 | |
| Freeney, Y. & Tiernan, J. , Exploration of the facilitators of and barriers to work engagement in nursing, International Journal of Nursing Studies, 46, (12), 2009, p1557 - 1565 | |
| Freeney, Y. & Tiernan, J. , Employee Engagement: An overview of the literature on the proposed antithesis to burnout. , Irish Journal of Psychology, 27, 2006, p130 - 141 TARA - Full Text | |
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