Dr Karen Matvienko-Sikar
Lecturer & HRB funded Senior Research Fellow, School of Public Health, University College Cork.
Karen obtained her PhD in Applied Psychology from UCC and is Chair of the Psychological Society of Ireland Division of Health Psychology. Karen’s research interests and expertise are in maternal and child health and well-being, with a particular focus on perinatal mental health and childhood obesity prevention. Karen has methodological expertise in outcomes research, including core outcomes sets, and she has ongoing collaborations with the COMET Initiative and the COSMIN Initiative. Karen has received early career awards for her research from the European Health Psychology Society and the European Association for the Study of Obesity. She has also received a commendation from the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science and was recently awarded the UCC Research Award for Open Science.
