Cristina Marinho

Senior Teaching Coordinator

  • Psychology
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contact details

Address

Street

Room F.12, Psychology Building

City
7 George Square, Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9JZ

Availability

  • Office hours:
    Wednesday 4-5pm
    Please email me, if you are unable to make this slot.

    Qualitative support:
    Semester 1 - Every other Thursday from 9:30am to 10:30am.
    Semester 2 - Every other Thursday from 9.30 am to 11.00am.
    Please email me to book a slot for qualitative support.
    NB: Qualitative research support is for undergraduate and postgraduate students, but priority is given to Year 4 dissertation students.

Biography

Background

I joined the Department in September 2019 as a Teaching Fellow.

I received my doctorate in Social Psychology in 2012 from the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University. Under the supervision of Professor Michael Billig, I investigated the annual celebration of the April Revolution in the Portuguese Parliament using mostly qualitative research methods. 

Prior to that, I undertook a master’s degree in Social Psychology at ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon). There, under the supervision of Professor Maria Benedicta Monteiro, I studied blatant and subtitle forms of prejudice in Portuguese children with experiments. I also worked as a young quantitative researcher in Social Psychology at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS-University of Lisbon) and CIS-IUL (Lisbon). At ICS, under Professor Jorge Vala's leadership, I investigated political attitudes and infra-humanization in the Portuguese population. I also worked as a University Teacher at Loughborough University, Leicester University and NTIC-Nottingham Trent University. 

Undergraduate teaching

Academic Year of 2022/23

Year 1: Contribution to Doing Psychology (Psychology 1B)

Year 2: Contribution to Doing Psychology  (Psychology 2B)

Year 3: Contribution to Qualitative Methods in Psychology (QMiP); contribution to Critical Analysis (CA)

Year 4: Dissertations in Psychology (supervision); Contribution to Psychology Tutorial Course

Postgraduate teaching

Academic Year of 2022/23

Qualitative Methodologies in Psychological Research (QMiPR) (Course Organiser)

Dissertations (supervision)

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

No

Research summary

My research interests revolve around investigating traditional social psychological topics as discursive actions using a rhetorical/discursive psychology approach.

I have worked and published with Professor Michael Billig (Loughborough University) on the topics of self-persuasion in party politics, misrepresenting reality (with political data and data from the Seduction Community or PUAs), politicians manipulating texts and multi-party audiences, countering political manipulation, politicians remembering and forgetting/repressing the national past, and sexist language habits. I have also worked and published with Dr Sue Widdicombe (The University of Edinburgh) on studying self-identity in Psychology. 

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