Cathal Mc Crory works as a Research Fellow on the Study Team and is based in the ESRI.

Cathal first joined the ESRI in May 2006.  Prior to this he worked as a Research Analyst, and later, as Manager of the Surveys and Indicators Unit in Forfas – the national policy and advisory board for enterprise, trade, science, technology and innovation. 

He obtained his Primary Degree in Psychology (1999) and Doctorate in Psychology (2002) from Queens University, Belfast.  He was awarded his PhD for his work examining the relationship between putative measures of neurological processing speed and psychometric intelligence.

Academic Publications:

McCrory, C. & Cooper, C. (2007).  Overlap between visual inspection time tasks and general intelligence.  Learning and Individual Differences (In Press). 

McCrory, C. & Cooper, C. (2005).  General Intelligence affects performance on three auditory inspection time tasks.  Personality and Individual Differences, 38, 1835-1845.

Phone: 01 863 2027
Email: cathal.mccrory@esri.ie