I am a Cross-cultural Psychologist with a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (awarded in 2011). I joined the research centre Cis_ISCTE at the end of 2011 as a Marie Curie Research Fellow after a 1-year postdoc at the University of Kent, UK. I am an Assistant Professor at ISCTE since 2019.   I am very interested in the relation between the individual and the larger society and how characteristics of the social, cultural and physical environment are related to individuals´ well-being, moral beliefs and intergroup relations. As such, my work usually integrates theories and insights from different disciplines, such as Sociology, Anthropology, and Political Sciences (apart from Psychology).  My current research projects focus on age discrimination towards younger workers in different cultures as well as the issue of subtle discrimination (also referred to as microaggression) towards ethnic minorities in different societies.    I am teaching courses at Bachelor and Master level on research methods, (cross-)cultural psychology, and intercultural relations. From 2016 to 2021, I also coordinated the funded Erasmus Mundus programme “European Master in the Psychology of Global Mobility, Inclusion and Diversity in Society” (Global-MINDS) which is a joint master programme delivered by an international consortium of partner universities. Global-MINDS is currently coordinated by the University of Limerick and includes ISCTE-IUL, the University of Oslo and SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities as full partners.    I welcome any expressions of interest for Master thesis or PhD supervision on morality, cross-cultural comparisons, youngism and microaggressions (from an enactor and/or victim perspective).  

Dr. Guerra holds a PhD in Social Psychology (2007), and she is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Psychological Research and Social Intervention (CIS_Iscte). She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychology, University of Delaware for two years, and later in 2010 she joined Cis_Iscte.  She is interested in intergroup relations, common identity and contact interventions to reduce discrimination and promote social change, as well as on intergroup approaches to collective narcissism, extremism, and hate speech. She is a Fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI, Division 9 of the American Psychological Association). She coordinated several projects supported by competitive grants from the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT), the European Commission (European Fund for the Integration of non-EU immigrants, EIF, Citizens, Equality,  Rights and Values Programme - CERV), and La Caixa Foundation and participated in several others as a team member. Her research has been published in respectable journals in her field (e.g., Psych. Science;  Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Political Psychology, Eur. J. of Soc. Psychology., J. Personality and Social Psychology, J. of Applied Social Psychology, Eur. J. of Personality, Journal of Social Issues) and chapters in edited peer-reviewed volumes (e.g., Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination), accumulating over 2000 citations. She actively integrates research into teaching activities, teaching in master programs in intercultural relations and social psychology, and supervising PhD and master students.  She is Associated Editor of Journal of Applied Social Psychology and served as a Guest Editor of the Special Issue, Unpacking the social psychology of populism, for the Journal of Theoretical and Social Psychology. She is currently a a member of the Executive Committee of the International Contact Research Network. She served as the Vice Director of CIS_Iscte from 2016-2020 and is a member of CIS_Iscte Scientific Commission (2021-25). She served as Vice-President of  the Scientific Council of ISCTE Knowledge & Innovation Center (2023-25) and she is currently a co-coordinator of the Thematic Line Global Governance (SocioDigital Lab for Public Policy).

Miriam Rosa is a researcher at CIS-IUL (Centre for Psychological Research and Social Intervention) and invited professor at the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at ISCTE-IUL. She completed a PhD in 2012 by ISCTE-IUL with co-supervision by Kiel University (Germany) awarded with a grant by FCT (Portuguese Science Foundation). She has been a FCT postdoctoral fellow between 2013 and 2018 at CIS-IUL and Rotterdam School of Management (Rotterdam University, The Netherlands). She co-coordinated the research group GCIR in 2013-2014 and Psychange in 2014-2015. Miriam is specialized in research and data analysis' methods, and has been dedicated to scientific research in the area of intergroup relations, focusing on relations between groups of asymmetric status (majorities vs. minorities). She conducts this work in different contexts, such as organizations (e.g. diversity and inclusion at work, success of mergers/acquisitions); activism (e.g. environmental activists) or religious groups. More recently, she is interested in social and organizational challenges (e.g. skilling, age/gender inclusion) in high technological intensity sectors/industries (e.g.  aeronautics, space, defense, maritime)

Ricardo Borges Rodrigues is Assistant Professor at ISCTE-IUL and integrated researcher at CIS-IUL. With a PhD in Social and Organizational Psychology, he conducts research and intervention in the area of ​​intergroup relations in childhood and adolescence, namely on processes of racial, ethnic, and gender based inclusion and exclusion in educational contexts. Director of the Master in Psychology of Intercultural Relations and academic vice coordinator at Iscte of the Erasmus Mundus Global Mobility, Inclusion and Diversity in Society (Global-Minds). At CIS-IUL, he coordinates the project TEIP4 (consultancy to 15 school districts). Has served in expert committees, such as the Commission for Monitoring and Supervision of Educational Centers (2016-2020) and the advisory group for the Curricular Autonomy and Flexibility Project (DGE, 2017).