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Education

PhD Candidate, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 2025 – Present
MSci Psychology: Neuroscience and Neuroimaging (First Class Honours), University of York, 2019 – 2023

Research Assistant, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland (2023 - Present)
- Forest4Youth (€5 500 000 funded by Interreg North-West Europe, EU, 2025 - 2028)
- PsyTales (€250 000 funded by Erasmus+ KA220, EU, 2024 - 2026)
- VNiC-Health (€300 000 funded by Research Ireland, 2023 - 2025)
Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of York, York, England (2020 - 2022)
- Research areas: face perception, language, eye-tracking, meaning

RCSI Doctoral Funding Scheme, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 2026 - Present
- Awarded competitive doctoral funding covering 80% of PhD tuition fees

Valuing urban natural capital for health and resilience: A stakeholder-informed system dynamics model for Dublin
Clinton, M., Sinnott, F., Kaleta, B.., Campbell, S., Harper, A., Burke, J., & O’Keeffe, J. (2026). "Valuing urban natural capital for health and resilience: A stakeholder-informed system dynamics model for Dublin." Environmental Advances, 23, 100683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envadv.2026.100683
Nature’s heart: a scoping review of the impact of nature-based interventions for cardiovascular and metabolic disease
Al Ghanim, S., Kaleta, B., Campbell, S., O’Keeffe, J., & Burke, J. (2025). "Nature’s heart: A scoping review of the impact of nature-based interventions for cardiovascular and metabolic disease." Journal of Public Health, 47(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaf074
Nature-based interventions: a systematic review of reviews
Kaleta, B., Campbell, S., O’Keeffe, J., & Burke, J. (2025). "Nature-based interventions: A systematic review of reviews." Frontiers in Psychology, 16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1625294

MSc in Applied Positive Psychology Well-being and Health
MSc Course, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 2026

Student Selected Research Project Supervisor, RCSI, 2024
- Project: Nature’s heart: A scoping review of the impact of nature-based interventions for cardiovascular and metabolic disease. * Resulted in publication: doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaf074
Student Selected Research Project Supervisor, RCSI, 2024
- Project: Costs and Experiences of Green Prescriptions: A Scoping Review.

Scientific Committee, European Conference on Positive Psychology 2026, Dublin, Ireland

Panellist on Environmental Education, World Conference on Forests and Parks for Public Health, Luxembourg, 2025

International Society of Forest Therapy Congress, Krems, Austria, 2026
Young Leaders for Arts & Health Ireland Summit, Dublin, Ireland, 2026
European Conference on Positive Psychology, Dublin, Ireland, 2026
Psychology, Health and Medicine Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2026
IV Global Summit Science, Nature and Health, online, 2026
Positive Health Summit, Dublin, Ireland, 2026
Positive Psychology in a Complex World, Lübeck, Germany, 2025
Psychology, Health and Medicine Annual Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2025
Positive Health Summit, Dublin, Ireland, 2025
European Conference on Positive Psychology, Innsbruck, Austria, 2024
York Science Conference, York, England, 2020