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Maria Sophia Heering

Research fellow

Department of Psychology "Renzo Canestrari"

Curriculum vitae

Research Fellow at the University of Bologna since 2024, conducting research in the field of social psychology. Her research interests span intergroup and intragroup dynamics, political protest, social movements, deviance management, and environmental psychology. Currently, she focuses her research on intergroup solidarity and support for stigmatized groups and ethnic minorities.

Education

Graduated in Communication and Marketing Psychology (2015) from the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome, she obtained her PhD in Social Psychology in 2021 from the University of Kent, UK.

  • 2014: Erasmus Semester at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)

  • 2014-2015: Internship at the Department of Developmental and Socialization Psychology, Sapienza, Rome

  • 2020-2021: Research Assistant for a project funded by the Nuffield Foundation, University of Kent (UK).

  • 2020-2023: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Computing, University of Kent (UK).

  • 2021-2022: Postdoctoral position at the University of York for a project in collaboration with the NHS (National Health Service).

  • 2023-2024: Postdoctoral position at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua.

Academic Roles

Supervision of undergraduate and master’s theses. Associate and Assistant Lecturer for the courses (2017-2021):

  • SP620 The Social Psychology of the Individual
  • SP619 The Social Psychology of Groups
  • SP529 Personality
Memberships in Professional and Scientific Associations
  • Member of the E.A.S.P. (European Association of Experimental Social Psychology).
  • Member of the ISPP (International Society of Political Psychology).
  • Title of Associate Fellow of the Higher Education.

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