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School of Psychology

Dr
Richard
Lombard Vance

Primary Department
School of Psychology
Role
Academic Staff
Looks like Dr Richard Lombard-Vance
Phone number: 01 700
8622
Campus
Glasnevin Campus
Room Number
H301

Academic biography

  • Quality-of-life, well-being, and adjustment
  • Smart and healthy ageing for all
  • Psychoprosthetics and cognitive impairment, limb loss, and well-being/participation

Current research interests

I am interested in quality-of-life, well-being, and community/civic participation, their qualities, and particularly how these may change across the lifespan or how they interact with ageing, cognitive impairment, disability, or exposure to precarious life conditions. Some of this work intersects with human rights, deinstitutionalisation, and democratization of health & social care. 

I maintain an interest in psychoprosthetics, or the psychology/neuropsychology of amputation/limb loss.

I also have a keen interest in researchers' own well-being, precarious conditions, and participation. 


ORCiD: orcid.org/0000-0002-3307-9590 || OSF: https://osf.io/d6vap/

Research interests

Well-being/Healthy Ageing/Ageing with Impairment

How do we enable people to live fulfilling lives? Quality-of-life (QOL), well-being, adjustment, and community participation
How do we support people as they age with and without cognitive impairments? Ageing with cognitive impairment and/or disability Can digital technologies and ecosystems support lifespan development/healthy ageing? Which aspects of our psychology influence the limb loss experience? Psychology of amputation/limb loss

Psychology, Human Rights, and Social Justice

How can psychology and human rights contribute to each other, and how do we use them to improve care processes? Psychology and human rights, deinstitutionalisation, democratising health & social care What can we learn from liberation approaches?

Precarity/VUCA

How do inequality, volatility, and precarity in our world influence human development? Social determinants, precarity, VUCA How can we support researchers? Researchers' well-being, precarity, and enablement