Mary Aiken is an award-winning scholar, Cyberpsychologist, television presenter and writer. A graduate of University College Dublin, she was an active member of the L&H society, and a prize-winning public speaker.
Mary has a background in Psychology, Forensic Psychology, and holds a Master’s of Science in Cyberpsychology; an advanced discipline studying the impact of emerging technology on human behaviour: Social Networking, Computer Mediated Communication (email, texting etc), e-therapy online, Artificial Intelligence, Forensic Cyberpsychology and more.
Mary is currently completing her PhD in Online Behavioural Analysis, which she will complete at the Royal College of Surgeons Dublin. Mary has spent the past ten years researching and writing on the subject of Forensic Psychology, she is one of the featured experts and the researcher on the new TV3 prime time television series ‘Crime in Mind’. The programme centres on the application of contemporary Forensic psychology methodology and theory to Irish Cold Cases. Forensic psychology is concerned with behavioural analysis; the ‘blood spatter of the mind’ with a view to generating insights, this is a first for Irish TV in this area.
Mary has also worked in industry at an international level for a number of years, specialising in consumer behavioural profiling, innovation methodology, 
business/organisational psychology and future thinking. Mary is an excellent communicator, a creative strategic thinker, named inventor on a number on international patents, and is committed in the application of academic knowledge to social problem solving.
Mary has written extensively on psychology and advertising, her work has been published in industry publications, she has also spoken on the U.K lecture circuit. Mary is currently writing her first fictional novel.
Mary has been a board member of the Rutland Centre, Irelands leading addiction clinic, has worked on Meas (responsible drinking) and Gamcare (gaming addiction online) initiatives, and is currently an advisor to ‘Right to Sight’ a global blindness eradication charity.
Recent activity:
Mary was a keynote speaker, delivering a lecture at the 29th meeting of the INTERPOL Specialists Group on Crimes against Children, at the INTERPOL General Secretariat in Lyons (5 to 7 September 2011), she also presented papers on ‘Cyberstalking’ and the ‘Forensic Cyberpsychology of Crime Reporting’ at the 3rd Annual Indiana State University International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference, Terre Haute Indiana (September 26-28, 2011)
