Dr Jolanta Burke is a wellbeing researcher & good-life storyteller.
She is as a Chartered Psychologist and a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Positive Health sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences. She specialises in positive psychology (the science of wellbeing).
Dr Burke contributed with research about the application of wellbeing. Apart from figuring out “What” makes people thrive, she is also interested in the “how” and researchers pathways to get people there. She explores such topics as psycho-genetic profiling, mechanisms for wellbeing interventions and the relationship between habit-creation and cognitive-affective tools.
Prior to RCSI, she worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Education, Maynooth University, where she applied her research in the context of positive education, and as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Psychology, University of East London, where she applied her research in the context of workplace. She have been awarded her PhD in Positive Psychology by the University of Dublin, Trinity College.
Dr Burke’s passion is wellbeing research and writing. She has written eight books, over 100 peer-reviewed publications and popular articles about the application of positive psychology in daily life. She has a column in Psychology Today, the most prominent global psychological online forum. She regularly contributes to The Conversation and RTE Brainstorm, which are invited fora for academics to share research with the general public.
In her personal life, she loves swimming, hiking, reading fiction and movies. She lives in Dublin with her husband, sons, a dog and a cat.
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