Professor Jane Walsh is a Health Psychologist and Director of the Mobile Technology and Health (mHealth) Research Group where she leads an innovative research programme in the area of personalised connected health. Her projects include over 30 million euro as PI/Co-Applicant including: Horizon Europe, Health Research Board, Irish Cancer Society and Research Ireland (SFI/IRC). 

Jane was Co-Leader of the Health and Wellbeing Cluster in the Whitaker Institute and a member of the Irish Cancer Society Research Advisory Board.  She was recently appointed to the Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences Committee and is a former Chair of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) Division of Health Psychology.  Jane was awarded the University of Galway President's Award for Research Excellence in recognition of her work.

Jane Walsh is the Director of the mhealth Research Group where she leads an innovative research programme on technology and health behaviour. Jane leads funded research of over 30 million euro as PI/Co-Applicant funded by Horizon Europe, HRB, Irish Cancer Society and Research Ireland. Jane was awarded the Presidents Award for Research Excellence (2020) and the Deans Award for Research Impact (2020) in recognition of her work.

Current Research Projects

Jane leads the Research Methods teaching in the School of Psychology and has particular interest in multivariate statistics and trial methodologies. She developed and teaches anelective in Technology and Health which teaches students about state-of-the-art developments in health technology, with an emphasis on innovation and entrepreneurship. She has also developed a new module on Behavioural Medicine and contributes to a number of other Health Psychology modules. She is current Director of the Structured PhD in Psychology and Health where she has developed several modules including Health Services Research . She lectures in the area of Mobil e Technology and Health Behaviour to the MSc in Preventive Cardiology.