the big five Almost everyday we describe and assess the personalities of the people around us. Whether we realize it or not, these daily musings on how and why people behave as they do are similar to what personality psychologists … Continue reading
Category Archives: Graduates 2012
Lia Ryan
engage-campaign Concerning levels of motivation and self-belief among young adults, this project focuses on encouraging the selected audience to address their goals in a conscious manner. It culminates in the application of an investigational campaign testing the various methods of … Continue reading
Mick McCabe
gaeilge lofa líofa Brian Ó Broin identified in an Irish Times article that a potential linguistic schism is developing between urban speaker and native speaker Gaeilgeoirí. Further analysis of the situation also reveals that not only are the cohorts disengaging … Continue reading
Sarah Kelliher
synaesthesia; ways of thinking Synaesthesia is a perceptual experience where two or more senses are activated when in the presence of an external stimulus. In simpler terms, shapes can create sounds, letters can evoke colours and numbers and objects can … Continue reading
Jackie O’Connell
judge and be judged For the final year project I focused my attention on stereotypes. We are faced with all kinds of stereotypes through out our daily lives, weather it be racial, social or religious. This project was designed to … Continue reading
Teresa Ahern
poetry is what gets lost in translation Inspired by renowned poet Robert Frost, I chose to examine how people relate to poetry today, with an aim to change the traditional perception of poetry. To capture this I have created a … Continue reading
Jade Quinn
your sporting future Psychologists believe self esteem is the most core component of our identity. This booklet is an insight in to the deeply personal and private journey of local competitive athletes. It encourages the reader to look at sport … Continue reading
Tara Gibbons
engaging the youth and the elderly There are many questions I wish I had asked my grandparents when they were alive. This is where the topic for my exhibition piece came about. The youth and older generations sit at the … Continue reading
Sarah Neville
the dying art of conversation With engage as a starting point I decided to look at how technology has reformed the way we communicate and interact with each other. My main focus was the dying art of conversation which is … Continue reading
Graduate Show 2012
To engage is the term used to describe any means of involvement that is meaningful, expressive or significant; we engage with the world around us in many different ways and on many different levels; we see, explore, connect, engage, ‘tune in’, … Continue reading