I am a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Speech & Language Therapy at the University of Galway. Prior to this role, I worked as a paediatric SLT in a range of settings and also as a Lecturer at the University of Dublin, Trinity College. I completed my M.Litt and PhD at the University of Dublin, Trinity College. 

CORU registration number: SL018147

Dr. O'Malley welcomes applicants for both Masters and PhD research. Please contact [email protected] for more information. 

Particular Interests: 

• Respresentations of speech and language therapy in newspapers
• Discourse of professional report writing
• Representations of people's lived experiences of speech, language, communication and swallowing challenges in newspapers
• Children's perspectives on being multilingual in Ireland
• Children's perspectives on having speech differences
• Professional identity formation in Health & Social Care Professionals
• Adaptation of assessments to Irish e.g. Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (Gagarina et al., 2019)
• Innovative methods: children's drawings, Language Portaits, Lego Serious Play. 

Module leader for:

SL126 Linguistics 1

SL223 Linguistics 2

SL325 Linguistics 3

Teaches : childhood speech sound disorders including cleft lip and palate;,cultural and linguistic diversity, discourse analysis, research methods, speech and language assessment of multilingual children, leadership and management, linguistics for SLTs; narratives in childhood