B Arts, PhD

Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology

Contact details for Dr Fran O’Callaghan

Research expertise

• Health-related attitudes and behaviours
• Factors associated with pregnancy and offspring outcomes
• Drug treatment outcomes

Current teaching areas

• Health psychology
• Social psychology

Publications

• O’Callaghan, F.V., O’Callaghan, M.J., Najman, J., Williams, G., and Bor, W. (2007). Prenatal alcohol exposure and attention, learning, and intellectual ability at 14 years: A prospective longitudinal study. Early Human Development, 83(2), 115-123.
• O’Callaghan, F.V. and Nausbaum, S. (2006). Predicting bicycle helmet wearing intentions and behavior among adolescents Journal of Safety Research, 37(5), 425-431.
• O’Callaghan, F.V., O’Callaghan, M.J., Najman, J., Williams, G., Bor, W., and Alati, R. (2006). Prediction of adolescent smoking from family and social risk factors at 5 years, and maternal smoking in pregnancy and at 5 and 14 years. Addiction, 101, 282-290.
• O’Callaghan, F.V., Reid, A., and Copeland, J. (2006). Risk perception and cannabis use among a sample of young adults. Journal of Substance Use, 11(2), 129-136.
• Mamun, A., O’Callaghan, F.V., Alati, R., O’Callaghan, M.J., Najman, J., Williams, G., and Bor, W. (2006). Does maternal smoking during pregnancy predict smoking patterns of young adult offspring? A birth cohort study. Tobacco Control, 15(6), 452-457.