Stephen Gallagher Ph.D.

Stephen Gallagher, Ph.D., is a health psychologist and a Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He did his psychology undergraduate at the University of Liverpool, in the UK, and then completed an MSc in Health Psychology at Staffordshire University, UK in 2005, and completed his Ph.D. in Psychoneuroimmunology at the University of Birmingham, UK, in 2008. He then worked as a lecturer at Staffordshire University before moving to Limerick in 2010 where he teaches modules in theory and method, and health psychology.

Professor Gallagher’s main research interests focus on the impact of stress on health and are particularly interested in the impact of psychosocial factors on health via interactions between the neuroendocrine, cardiovascular and immune systems. From a stress paradigm, he uses both acute (lab based stressors) and chronic stress models (e.g. caregiving and unemployment) in his research work to understand better the relationships between stress and health. Some examples of this work can be found here.

He also leads the Study of Anxiety, Stress & Health Laboratory at the University of Limerick.