DrPadraic Dunne

Senior Lecturer

Centre for Positive Health Sciences

  • Senior Lecturer
    Centre for Positive Health Sciences

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

Online health coaching platforms that have the capacity to deliver motivational and educational support to citizens, in conjunction with existing community-based services like Slaintecare Healthy Communities and Healthy Ireland.

Application of integrated wellbeing solutions that incorporate lifestyle medicine and positive psychology.

Co-development of digital interventions that incorporate positive design to promote wellbeing for citizens, augmented with biofeedback technology.

Wearable and mobile application technology, coupled with intelligent assistant systems designed to manage wellbeing.

Meditation-based research, especially attention-based training (ABT).

GRANTS

  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Questa: A Platform for Personalised and Transparent Analysis of Wearable Device Data
    Enterprise Ireland5 Jan 2026 - 4 Jul 2026
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Positive Health Summit 2026: Connecting Communities, Inspiring Well-being
    Health Research Board / HRB1 Sep 2025 - 31 Aug 2026
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Professional Doctorate Programme 2025
    RCSI1 Aug 2025 - 28 Jul 2029
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Research Ireland (formerly IRC) 2025 Supplementary Stipend
    Research Ireland1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2025
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Coach Connect: Using AI and Machine Learning to Augment a coach-led digital health platform (a community evaluation) designed to promote whole health and wellbeing in the community.
    Irish Research Council IRC1 Mar 2024 - 31 Aug 2026
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Coach Connect: Using AI and Machine Learning to Augment a coach-led digital health platform (a community evaluation) designed to promote whole health and wellbeing in the community.
    RCSI1 Mar 2024 - 31 Aug 2026
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Stipend increase for non state-funded PhD scholars
    RCSI1 Jan 2024 - 30 Sep 2029
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    COISTE-5 - HORIZON-HLTH-2024-STAYHLTH-01-05-two-stage
    Enterprise Ireland16 Jun 2023 - 15 Jun 2025
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    COISTE-5 (COaching Interventions to SupporT hEalth within 5 kilometres of your home)
    Enterprise Ireland15 May 2023 - 14 Nov 2023
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Sláintecare Healthy Communities Seed Fund Funding and Reporting Agreement
    Kildare County Council1 Nov 2022 - 31 Dec 2026
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    RCSI Community Connect - Using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to scale online coaching for health
    Irish Research Council IRC1 Sep 2022 - 29 Feb 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Sohini DE
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Fulbright Commission PhD Programme Funding 2022
    RCSI15 Jun 2022 - 30 Sep 2026
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    Investigating the mitigating role of Positive Psychology Interventions on Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria (CSA) symptomology
    Private Donor10 Jan 2022 - 31 Aug 2026
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    A novel coach-led digital health platform, incorporating artificial intelligence and blockchain infrastructure, to improve community mental health and wellbeing: combining positive psychology and lifestyle medicine for the recovery of European communities
    Enterprise Ireland H2020 Support12 Nov 2021 - 6 Sep 2022
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    RCSI COACH CONNECT – coach-led digital support platform for frontline healthcare workers (nursing, medical and allied healthcare) working in Beaumont Hospital
    Charitable Infimary Charitable Trust - CICT1 May 2021 - 30 Apr 2022
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    RCSI COACH CONNECT – coach-led digital support platform for frontline healthcare workers (nursing, medical and allied healthcare) working in Beaumont Hospital
    RCSI1 May 2021 - 30 Apr 2022
  • GRANT
    Enterprise Ireland Co-ordinator Support grant
    Enterprise Ireland1 Sep 2018 - 1 Apr 2019
  • FUNDED PROJECT
    ENHANCED MENTAL HEALTH & STRESS RESILIENCE AMONG EMERGENCY HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS THROUGH A BESPOKE ATTENTION TRAINING-BIOFEEDBACK PROGRAMME
    Enterprise Ireland H2020 Support28 Jun 2018 - 2 Oct 2018
  • GRANT
    Dean's Initiative Award
    Trinity College Dublin5 Jan 2018 - 12 Dec 2018
  • GRANT
    Horizon 2020 Enterprise Ireland Coordinator Support grant
    Enterprise Ireland1 Sep 2015 - 1 Apr 2016
  • GRANT
    3 year Post-doctoral grant
    Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology1 Sep 2005 - 1 Sep 2008