Professor Daragh McDermott

Role

Daragh McDermott is the Executive Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University (NTU).

As Executive Dean he leads the School Executive Team, providing leadership and direction for the School's six constituent Departments.

He is a member of NTU's Extended University Executive Team and University Leadership Team.

Career overview

Daragh has nearly 20 years of experience working in higher education and has held substantive and honorary positions at ARU Cambridge, University of Galway (Ireland) and the University of Saskatchewan (Canada).

Prior to taking up the role of Executive Dean, Daragh was the Associate Dean for Psychology within NTU Psychology. Before joining NTU in 2021 he was Head of School of the School of Psychology & Sport Science at ARU Cambridge where he worked from 2011 - 2021. While at ARU he also held positions as Head of Department, Deputy Head of Department and Course Group Leader.

Daragh was awarded a B.A (Hons) Psychology and a PhD in Experimental Social Psychology from NUI Galway and a PGCert (Learning & Teaching) from ARU Cambridge. He is a Chartered Psychologist, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

External activity

Daragh is the former Co-Editor in Chief of the Taylor and Francis journal Psychology & Sexuality which he co-edited collaboratively with Professor Todd Morrison (University of Saskatchewan) from 2016 - 2023.

He is a consulting editor for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation & Gender Diversity and an editorial board member of the Journal of Social Psychology.

Daragh is Past Chair of the BPS East of England Branch and in 2021 stepped down after a 5 year term as Chair of Trustees for The Kite Trust.

Sponsors and collaborators

Key External Collaborators:

• Dr Karen Blair (Director of the Trent Social Relations, Attitudes and Diversity Lab, Trent University, Canada)
• Professor Shelley Craig (Canada Research Chair in Sexual and Gender Minority Youth; University of Toronto)
• Dr Igor Grabovac (Associate Professor; Medical University of Vienna)
• Professor Todd Morrison (Professor of Social Psychology; University of Saskatchewan)
• Dr Jason Schaub (Professor of Social Work; University of Bristol)

Funded Projects:

• European Commission (2020-22), Co-investigator and UK lead: 'WE Project' (£223,527).
• Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (Canada) (2018-25), Co-investigator and UK Regional Chair: 'Queery'ing resilience' (CAD$2.5million).
• Social Sciences & Health Research Council (Canada) (2019), Co-investigator:  The Inaugural INQYR Student Symposium (TISS-Mexico)' (CAD$25,000).
• British Academy/Leverhulme Trust (2016), Co-investigator:  'Preparing drivers to respond to road turns safely: What neural mechanism drives differences between experienced and novice drivers' (£9,317).
• Trust for London/Government Equalities Office/LGBT Consortium (2015), Principal Investigator: 'An LGBT Narrative for London ' (£16,500).