2021-2023
- Women’s Ways of Knowing: Feminist Analysis, Community Development and Empowerment in Women’s Collective Ireland (Mariantonia Borza, supervisor: Ronni Greenwood)
- Representation of women in American and Canadian newspapers in the discourse on climate change and COP27 and the associated psychosocial impacts (Justine Chouinard)
- Psychosocial interventions for refugees and asylum seekers to improve mental health: a systematic review
- Plurisexuality: Belonging to the LGBTQ+ Umbrella and Coping With Intragroup Discrimination (Mona Corinna Griesberg, supervisor: Ronni Greenwood)
- Those Who Love Art, I Love Them: An Exploration of Joint Creative Expressive Arts as a Pathway to Belonging and Safety (Lindsay Grosvenor, supervisor: Sarah Jay)
- Exploring emotional pathways towards collective giving
- The effectiveness and acceptability of a brief, synchronous mindfulness intervention at Limerick University during end of year exams (Aline Marie Lie)
- Individual and Group Identification: Different Relationships with Social Support and Well-being
- LGBTQ+ International Students and Their Experiences of Home in Ireland (Ümit Sahin, supervisor: Ronni Greenwood)
- An Exploration of community-based Mental Health Interventions for and with Irish Travellers (Lina Scharf, supervisor: Anca Minescu)
- Different Sex Educational Sources and Topics, their perceived influence and their correlations on Sexual Health Behavior, Sexual Health Communication, Sexual Satisfaction and Consent in Germany and South Africa (Imke Sich)
- Trans resilience in Portugal: Protective factors for trans and gender-diverse people and the role of trans community connectedness (Feli Sühs, supervisor: Carla Moleiro)
2019-2021
- Psychosocial factors that influence HIV testing and condom use in men: A cross-cultural perspective (Antonio Milá Roa, supervisor: Carla Moleiro)
- “Do you want me to continue?”: sexual education and consent in young masculinities in Mexico (Emilio Antonio Toussaint Ortiz, supervisor: Diniz Lopes)
- Economic inequality and wealth based stereotyping: a comparison between Kenya and Portugal (Grace Wacera Muoka, supervisor: Melanie Vauclair)
- Haven’t we learned anything from HIV, EBOLA, and other pandemics?: the effect of COVID-19 stigma on interpersonal behavior and health practices (Hilal Kassem, supervisor: Mauro Bianchi)
- A scoping review on critical incidents as a training tool in diversity interventions (Itumeleng Magoai, supervisor: Melanie Vauclair)
- Who’s the preferred environmentalist?: and for whom?: a multidimensional approach to impressions of environmentalists using a conjoint analysis (Karolin Kibele, supervisor: Miriam Rosa)
- The harmful effects of perceiving racial microaggressions: a study with black Brazilians in Brazil (Laís Sant’Ana Vitoria Regis, supervisor: Melanie Vauclair)
- Tackling gendered aspects of acculturation through Turkish migrant women’s experiences in Europe (Nazli Yagmur Erdogmus, supervisor: Carla Moleiro)
- Explaining normative and non-normative collective action tendencies based on the SIMCA, and perceived oppression as a mediator, in the context of the pro-democracy movement in Thailand (Pichayapohn Ritkampee, supervisor: Miriam Rosa)
- Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and peer problems in children and adolescents exposed to maltreatment (Sara Giuffrè, supervisor: Joana Baptista)
- Psychological processes underlying microaggressive communications by majority members against black people in Ireland (Sine Bering Holdensen, supervisor: Melanie Vauclair)
- Blowing hot air or serious talk?: a social recognition approach to the collective narcissistic claim for recognition (Wilma Marie Middendorf, supervisor: Rita Guerra)
- Identity Fusion with a Political Leader: The Role of Value Congruence in Predicting Violent Intentions and Prosociality (Milena Nikolic, supervisor: Jonas Kunst)
- “I am who I vote for”: Personality Antecedents of Identity Fusion in the US and in Italy (Elsa Brunet, supervisor: Jonas Kunst)
2018-2020
- The Masked Other: A Comparative Study on the Representation of Immigrants in Fox News During the Obama and Trump Administration (Anna Constanza De Keulenaar, supervisor: Carla Mouro)
- Not Real Rape? Predictors of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence and Attitudes Towards the #Metoo Movement in Nigeria and Norway (Joyce Anthonia Ojokojo, supervisor: Beate Bleibt)
- Role of Trust, Cultural Orientation and Communication In Times of COVID-19 In Ireland
- Understanding Motivation Factors and Compassion Fatigue as a Way to Increase Volunteer Recruitment and Retention in NGOs Working with Refugees in Turkey
- Factors Affecting Employers’ Hiring Preferences towards Asylum Seekers or Refugees in the U.S.: A quantitative study approach
- Fluidity Of Identity Of People With Multiple Cultural Experiences
- The influence of self-care on compassion satisfaction, secondary traumatic stress and burnout on humanitarian aid workers working with refugees and asylum seekers
- Cross-cultural Investigation of the Phenomenon of Androcentrism
- When and how vulnerable- and grandiose narcissism predict collective narcissism: the role of perceived social status, dimensions of self-worth, intuitive cognition and need for closure (Michaela Grossschaedl, supervisor: Rita Guerra)
- The Danger of Social Media: A Mixed-Method Analysis of Threat Content in Right-Wing Hate Tweets (Mona Frank, supervisor: Jonas Kunst)
- “But I’m One of the Good Ones”: A Qualitative Investigation of Internalized Islamophobia (Nuran El-Mahgary, supervisor: Jonas Kunst)
- Stable and contextually malleable factors of psychological adaptation in home and host country. Studies on Nigerians in Africa and in Poland
- Strength in Support: Post-Migratory Stress, Social Support, and Quality of Life in Adult Refugees from Syria Resettled in Norway (Prue Cauley, supervisor: Milan Obaidi)
- Exploring Emergent Opinion-based Groups in Afghanistan Using Bipartite Modeling
- Demographic Trends and Normative Influences on Prejudice against Travellers in Ireland
- Who is the most Kosovar? The role of relative ingroup prototypicality in intergroup relations in Kosovo (Genta Shabani, supervisor: Sven Waldzus)
- Exploring social well-being amongst community environmental leaders: a qualitative study (Ivan Gonzalez, supervisor: Miriam Rosa)
- Eudaimonic Well-being and Social Support of Queer Migrants (Karen Rabello Ferraz, supervisor: Beate Seibt)
- Effects of language priming on national and european identification. A cross-national comparison (Kira Schick, supervisor: Margarida Vaz Garrido)
- “We should all be Bosnians but…” Youths’ Negotiations of Identification with a Common Bosnian Identity (Lara-Sabina Sorgenfrei, supervisor: Sigrun Moss)
- Exploring the Acculturation Gap and Intergenerational Conflict in the Domain of Female Sexuality (Sarah D’Antoni, supervisor: Kinga Bierwiaczonek)
- Gender-based Violence and Psychological Abuse: Exploring the risk factors with survivors of domestic violence in Albania (Sunika Joshi, supervisor: Carla Moleiro)
- Can we overcome? The social identity dimensions of surviving sexual assault
- A New Measure of Well-being Combining Social Capital and Subjective Well-being (SWB) Based on Data from the European Social Survey
- Psychological well-being, coping and stress experiences of postgraduate students at the UL
2017-2019
- Investigating Ethnic Diversity in Soccer Teams as a Venue to Prevent Extremism: A Multi-Level Study (Ann-Cathrin Coenen, supervisor: Jonas Kunst)
- Media Charity Campaigns predicting Collective Action and Positive Stereotypes about Syrian Refugees in Ireland (Beatriz Gomez Moreno)
- Common Ingroup Identity Model & Structured Free Recall: Comparison of Bias Reduction Approaches on Specific Target Groups (Beverly Sue Li, supervisor: Rita Guerra)
- Heteronormative Beliefs and the Impact on Self-acceptance and Disclosure of Male Homosexuality in Portugal and Turkey (César Alexander Torres Rosado, supervisor: David Rodrigues)
- He is (not) one of Us: The Effect of Leaders? National Background on Leader Prototypicality, Sense of Continuity of Identity and Post-Merger Identification (Clara Pluckelmann, supervisor: Miriam Rosa)
- Beyond Intergroup Antagonism: Extending the Relational Model to the Group Level (Munadhillah, supervisor: Thomas Schubert)
- When History Perpetuates Stereotypes and Narratives: The Burden of Historical Representations on the Well-Being of Africans Living in Europe
- Awareness Intervention Against Modern Slavery in India: Influence of Caste Prejudice (Saranya Manoharan, supervisor: Jonas Kunst)
- Is standing by your moral opinion a Western phenomenon? A Cross-cultural study on moral consistency (Ali Sarmad, supervisor: Melanie Vauclair)
- Exploring the treads of service providers working with refugees in Istanbul, Turkey
- Cross-Cultural Validation of Worries about Leadership and Motivation to Lead in Germany, France, Japan, China and South Korea
- The influence of social media on the social identification and cross-cultural adaptation of international students in Europe: A longitudinal analysis (María Leonor Gaitán-Aguilar, supervisor: Joep Hofhuis)
- Are Future Leaders Worried about Work-Family Conflict?
- Interact & aspire high: Contextual conditions of acculturation and educational aspirations (Mario Amigot Pozueta, supervisor: Rita Guerra)
- An Agent Based Model Investigating Group Genesis in a Homogeneous Population via Meta-Contrast
- I Am Because We Are: In-Group Identification and Perceived Social Support as a Social Cure for Sexual Minorities, A Cross-Cultural Comparison (Gustavo Alberto Aybar Camposano, supervisor: Carla Moleiro)
- Effects of Racialized Sexual Harassment in the Workplace on Women’s Psychological Wellbeing and Job Satisfaction
- Beyond National Symbols: Identity and Political Processes on Quality of Intergroup Relationship with Different Outgroups in the Context of South Korea
- Social Inclusion of Chinese Immigrants in Portugal: The role of Length of Stay and Social Networks (Jia Fu, supervisor: Kinga Bierwiaczonek)
- Maintenance and Innocence: Motivations that Determine Dominance Strategies of High-status Groups (Jonathan Kang, supervisor: Thomas Schubert)
- Are Women and Men Equally Motivated and Worried about Leadership?
- Unfair, unstoppable, unique: Social identity arguments and collective action in Ecuador’s 1990 indigenous uprising
- Arab Muslims’ negative meta-perceptions and non-normative collective action (Elissa Issa, supervisor: Rita Guerra)
- Education, acculturation, and adaptation: Unaccompanied migrant and refugee youths in Italy (Francesca Osima, supervisor: Carla Moleiro & Sandra Roberto)
- The Interactive Effects of Perceived Workplace Discrimination and Organizational Culture on Job Attitudes: A Study of Ethiopian Bank Workers
- Development of Ambivalent Sexism in Childhood: Effect on Future Career Aspirations (Stefanie Richters, supervisor: Ricardo Rodrigues)
- (Trans)forming queer in migration narratives: the case of Russian gender/sexually nonconforming migrants in Berlin (Svetlana Solntseva, supervisor: Carla Moleiro)
- Perceptions of European and National Identities among Georgians
- Understanding intercultural competence of international students in light of their lived experiences in Ireland (Vanessa Laber)