New Journal, The European Journal of Applied Positive Psychology is launched on 29 April, 2017.

The European Journal of of Applied Positive Psychology (EJAPP) was launched on 29 April, 2017 . The EJAPP is a peer reviewed journal focusing on all aspects of the theory, research and practice of positive psychology.

The Co-editors are: Dr Ilona Boniwell PhD (France), Prof Stephen Palmer PhD (England), Dr Siobhain O’Riordan PhD (England). The Associate Editors are Dr Anthony Grant PhD (Australia), Pascale Haag (France) and Dr Rebecca Shankland PhD (France).

The editors look forward to receiving contributions reflecting the counselling and psychotherapy field in Europe and beyond. Visit the website for further information about submissions.

Further Information from the EJAPP website.

We welcome Dr Nollaig Heffernan who joins the Centre for Neuroscience faculty. She is a Sport and Exercise Psychologist (BPS) and a member of the Psychological Society of Ireland. She is an independent Management Consultant and works with businesses from sole traders to multinationals specialising in Leadership and Management, Organisational Psychology, Workplace Performance and Stress Management. In her role as a Sport Psychologist she works with all abilities from beginner to elite in a wide range of sports. She is a successful rowing coach with wins at national and international level. She regularly speaks at conferences and universities as a specialist lecturer or guest speaker and is a contributing author to a number of business books including the Association for Coaching’s Psychometrics in Coaching and Leadership Coaching.

Her interests include the neuroscientific make-up of high performing individuals, the cross-discipline transfer of effective coping strategies, resilient leadership and enhancing wellbeing in the workplace. She has co-authored (with Stephen Palmer) a paper, Moving forward neuroscience research in the fields of coaching psychology and sport psychology: Would Imagery Based Coaching be a useful area to research?  which will be published in Coaching Psychology International this summer.