Ronan A. McGarrigle, PhD DOB: 04/27/1988 Mobile: 513-501-3264 Gender: Male Home Tel: 0161 2644863 Address: 220 25 th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Occupation: Research Fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center Email: ronan.mcgarrigle@vanderbilt.edu Education / Experience August 2016 - Present Vanderbilt University Medical Center Research Fellow in the Hearing and Speech Sciences Department Title: Investigating listening-related fatigue in children and adults with hearing loss Principal investigators: Dr Ben Hornsby and Prof Fred Bess January July 2016 Cincinnati Children s Hospital Research Fellow at the Communication Sciences Research Center Title: Investigating children with listening difficulties using fmri and eye-tracking methods Principal investigator: Prof David Moore 2012 2015 University of Manchester PhD in Cognitive Hearing Science Title: Listening-related effort and fatigue in young adults and children Supervisors: Prof Kevin Munro, Dr Andrew Stewart, and Dr Piers Dawes 2009 2012 University of Manchester BSc in Psychology, First-class honours degree 2006 2008 University of Edinburgh Diploma of Higher Education, Spanish
2004 2006 Holy Cross College, N.Ireland A Levels English Literature (A); Spanish (A); Religious studies (A) 2002 2004 Holy Cross College, N.Ireland GCSEs 1 A*, 2 A s, 5 B s, 1 C Publications Ronan McGarrigle, Andrew Stewart, Piers Dawes, & Kevin Munro (in preparation). Measuring listening-related effort and fatigue in normal-hearing school-aged children using pupillometry. Ronan McGarrigle, Andrew Stewart, Piers Dawes, Stefanie Kuchinsky, & Kevin Munro (in press). Response time and pupil size as potential behavioural and physiological indices of listening-related fatigue, Psychophysiology. Ronan McGarrigle, Kevin Munro, Piers Dawes, Andrew Stewart, Johanna Barry, Sygal Amitay & David Moore. (2014). Listening effort and fatigue: what exactly are we measuring? International Journal of Audiology, 53, 433-440. Ronan McGarrigle, Andrew Stewart, Piers Dawes, & Kevin Munro (2013). How hard can listening be? Objective measures of listening effort. ENT & Audiology news, 22, 117-118. Presentations Ronan McGarrigle, Piers Dawes, Andrew Stewart, Stefanie Kuchinsky & Kevin Munro. (June, 2015). Measuring listening-related fatigue: Behavioural and physiological markers. Presented at Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication. Linkoping, Sweden. Ronan McGarrigle, Piers Dawes, Andrew Stewart, Stefanie Kuchinsky & Kevin Munro (June, 2015). Measuring listening-related effort and fatigue in young adults and children. Presented at Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit Seminar Series, Nottingham, UK.
Ronan McGarrigle, Kevin Munro, Piers Dawes, & Andrew Stewart. (January, 2015). Listening effort and fatigue: Insights from pupillometry. Presented at Experimental Psychology Society London meeting. University College London, UK. Ronan McGarrigle, Kevin Munro, Andrew Stewart, & Piers Dawes. (September, 2014). Listening effort and fatigue: insights from pupillometry. Presented at BSA Annual Conference. Keele, UK. Ronan McGarrigle, Kevin Munro, Andrew Stewart, & Piers Dawes. (August, 2014). Listening effort and fatigue: insights from pupillometry. Presented at HESP Seminar series. Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Maryland, USA. Ronan McGarrigle, Kevin Munro, Piers Dawes, & Andrew Stewart. (September, 2013). Psychophysiological correlates of listening effort during a novel listening task: Some preliminary data. Presented at BSA conference. Keele, UK. Ronan McGarrigle, Kevin Munro, Andrew Stewart, & Piers Dawes (June, 2013). Listening effort: Are we talking about the same thing? Presented at Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication conference. Linkoping, Sweden. Ronan McGarrigle, Andrew Stewart, & Louise Connell (August, 2012). Can language help to shape the way we think? A cross-linguistic investigation into the effect of noun-adjective order on conceptual representation. Presented at Embodied and situated language processing conference. Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. Teaching responsibilities / Supervision Lab demonstrator: PSYC21061 Statistics & Data Analysis (September 2013 January 2015). Seminar instructor and poster marking: PSYC10411 Introduction to the Psychology of Language & Communication (September 2013 January 2015). Seminar instructor and essay marking: PSYC21012 Perception and Action (September 2013 January 2014). Lab instructor and lab report marking: PSYC21031 Evolution of Behaviour and Cognition (September 2015 January 2016). Lab instructor and lab report marking: PSYC21041 Current Issues in the Psychology of Language and Communication (September 2015 January 2016).
Seminar instructor: PSYC32231 Neuroscience of Language (December, 2015). Seminar instructor: PSYC31121 Language and Communicative Development in Educational Settings (September 2015 January 2016). Group presentation assessor: PSYC10410 Psychology in Action (April, 2014). MSc Audiology lab instructor: PSYC60650 Auditory Evoked Potentials (September 2015 January 2016). BSc Audiology lab instructor: Tympanometry (September 2015 January 2016). BSc Audiology lab instructor: Pure Tone Audiometry (September 2015 January 2016). MSc Audiology Research project co-supervisor (September 2013 September 2014). BSc Audiology Research project co-supervisor (November 2013 June 2014). Responsible for observing and assessing communication skills during group interviews for BSc Audiology student recruitment (December 2014 & 2015). Guest speaker at the Audiology Careers Fair (December 2014 & 2015). Outreach experience Manchester Access Programme tutor - supporting university applications for A-level students from underprivileged backgrounds (January May, 2014). Demonstrator on Big Brain Summer School event performed a day of activities designed to stimulate interest in Audiology and Psychology for primary school kids (May, 2014). Conducted a video conference Q&A session discussing a PhD in research with 6th form students in Altrincham Grammar school, Manchester (June, 2013). Academic awards / Achievements Winner of the Best Oral Presentation award as voted for by academic judges at the Postgraduate research showcase, School of Psychological Sciences (April, 2015). Runner up of the Best Oral Presentation award as voted for by student peers at the Postgraduate research showcase, School of Psychological Sciences (April, 2015). Received a travel grant award from the School of Psychological Sciences to present a poster at the Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication conference in Linkoping, Sweden (June, 2013). Ad hoc reviewer: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Ear & Hearing.
Skills (Software) Experiment Builder (Eyelink), R, SPSS, Word, Excel.