Assistant Manager

David Lydon

Salathuna, Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland

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EDUCATION

Trinity College, Dublin Ireland

B.A. Honors in Psychology and English 2011

Honors Thesis: Development of Emotion Recognition from an Embodied Perspective

Overall Grade: First-Class Honors

AWARDS

• Composition Prize in a Modern Language (English), Trinity College, Dublin 2008

• Donogh O’Malley Scholarship, Department of Education, Ireland 2007

• Overall Student of the Year, Coláiste Cholmcille, Galway, Ireland 2004

• Student of the Year, Coláiste Cholmcille, Galway, Ireland 2002

PSYCHOLOGY- AND RESEARCH-RELATED EXPERIENCE

Centre for Talented Youth, Dublin City University, Ireland 2011

Teaching Assistant

• Supporting the teacher in a social and behavioural psychology class of 30 adolescents

• Supervision and discipline

• Correcting student work and completing student evaluations

Department of Psychology, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland 2010 – 2011

Senior Sophister Research Student

• Completing a literature review and identifying a research question

• Using Superlab to develop a computer-based experiment

• Collecting data in schools and universities and interpreting that data using SPSS

• Successfully completing an independent research project involving over 100 children, adolescents,

and adults

Steele Family, Dublin, Ireland 2010 - 2011

Son-Rise Volunteer

• Teaching social, emotional, and communication skills to a 9-year-old boy with autism

• Creating lessons plans

• Evaluating progress continually

Student Psychology Journal, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 2010 - 2011

Co-Founder and Assistant Editor

• Co-founded Ireland’s first undergraduate psychology journal

• Reviewing and editing submissions

• Designing the journal

• Helping to launch the journal

Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, Dublin City University, Ireland 2010

DiaMonD UREKA Research Scholar

• Completing a literature review on the psychosocial factors impacting on diabetes treatment

• Presenting findings using a PowerPoint presentation and an academic poster

• Working both independently and as part of an international and diverse team

MANAGERIAL EXPERIENCE

Eurolanguages College, Galway, Ireland 2008

– 2009

Assistant Manager

• Staff training

• Keeping the accounts for the course

• Discipline

• Managerial duties

• Acting as a link between Irish parents, their children, and the French staff members

ACHIEVEMENTS AND INTERESTS

• Two-time World Champion Irish dancer

• Elected as house captain of the 2008/2009 Irish-language scheme house in Trinity College

• Held an art exhibition of original paintings in 2007

• Winner of 2005 2fm Jacob’s National Song Contest

• Elected as chairperson of the Green-Schools Committee in both primary and secondary school

• Represented my secondary school in the All-Ireland Athletic Championships 2005

REFERENCES

Ciara Greenwood Dr. Elizabeth Nixon Dr. Pamela Gallagher,

Eurolanguages College, Lecturer in Psychology, Lecturer in Psychology,

48 Lower Salthill, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University,

Co. Galway, Dublin 2, Dublin 9,

Ireland. Ireland. Ireland.

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