Niamh is a second year PhD candidate in the Research School of Psychology. She completed a Bachelor of Science Psychology (Honours) in 2018. Her PhD research examines the relationship between emotion, motivation, and attentional breadth. She is supervised by Dr Stephanie Goodhew, A/Prof Mark Edwards, and Dr Amy Dawel.

This study aimed to validate motivational intensity as an emotional construct, in particular to determine if it should be considered independent from existing constructs valence and arousal for understanding emotion.