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Susana Batel. Completed her PhD in Social, Environmental and Community Psychology in 2010 by ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon. She is currently an Assistant Researcher in CIS -ISCTE and Invited Assistant Professor in ISCTE. She has published around 45 articles and chapters in peer-reviewed journals and books, mostly international. She is currently supervising 4 PhD thesis(es). She participates and/or participated as Principal investigator in 4 competitively funded project(s). In their professional activities interacted with 56 collaborator(s) in co-authorship of scientific papers. In her curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: energy; environment; social change; social representation; discourse; communication; public participation; energy justice; energy poverty; sustainability; climate change; place attachment.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Susana Batel

Citation names

  • Batel, S.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
2010-62BD-2841
ORCID iD
0000-0002-6586-6716

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2010
Concluded
 PhD Program in Social and Organisational Psychology, ISCTE (Doutoramento)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"Participação pública entre normas e factos: Uma análise psico-social [Public participation between norms and facts: A psycho-social analysis]" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Excellent
2004
Concluded
 Social and Organisational Psychology, ISCTE (Licenciatura)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"N/A" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/07/01 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
2018 - 2022 Researcher (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/04 - 2020/04 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universität Sankt Gallen School of Economics and Political Science, Switzerland

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2014/09/15 - 2018 Post-doc research fellow with the project "Towards a better understanding of people's responses to renewable energy technologies (RET): RET as a social change process" Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2012/01/23 - 2014/07/31 Associate Research Fellow University of Exeter, United Kingdom
2010/04/01 - 2011/02/15 Consultant/researcher ESPA, Lda. - Studies in Social and Environmental Psychology, Portugal
2005/10/01 - 2009/10/31 PhD Fellowship funded by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2004/09/01 - 2005/09/30 Research fellowship in project "Elites Discriminadas: Uma abordagem interdisciplinar às desigualdades de género" [An interdisciplinary approach to gender inequalities], funded by FCT ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Laboratório Sócio-Digital para Políticas Públicas
10.54499/LA/P/0125/2020
Researcher
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Informação Tecnologias e Arquitetura, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Unidade de Investigação em Desenvolvimento Empresarial, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2024/04/01 - 2025/11/30 CAREsolar: An updated framework on community acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures – Practical guidelines for solar plants as a case study
B2023-01
Principal investigator
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
 Forschungsstiftung Strom und Mobilkommunikation
Ongoing
2021/12/01 - 2023/11/30 JUSTENERGY_Intersections of right-wing populism and (un)just rural energy transitions in Portugal as communicative and socio-spatial practices
EXPL/COM-CSS/1510/2021
Principal investigator
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/04/01 - 2023/03/31 SMART BEEjS - Human-Centric Energy Districts: Smart Value Generation by Building Efficiency and Energy Justice for Sustainable Living
812730
Principal investigator
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Excellent Science

MSCA-ITN-ETN - European Training Networks
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2022/12/31 MISTRAL - Multi-sectoral approaches to Innovative Skills Training for Renewable energy And sociaL acceptance
813837
Principal investigator
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Excellent Science

MSCA-ITN-ETN - European Training Networks
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Batel, S.; Rudolph, D.. A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures: Beyond green growth and sustainability. Springer International Publishing. 2021.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-73699-6 • Editor
Book chapter
  1. Lamonaca, Luca; Batel, Susana. "What of Recognition Justice? An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Recognition Justice in Social Housing Smart City Projects in the Global North". In Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South, edited by Paola Velasco Herrejón; Breffní Lennon; Niall P. Dunphy, 244-254. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2023.
    Published
  2. "A brief excursion into the many scales and voices of renewable energy colonialism". In Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2021.
    Published
  3. Batel, S.; Devine-Wright, P.. "Using a Critical Approach to Unpack the Visual-Spatial Impacts of Energy Infrastructures". In A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures: Beyond green growth and sustainability. 2021.
    Published
  4. Oliveira, J.M.; Batel, S.; Amâncio, L.. "Uma igualdade contraditória? Género, trabalho e educação das elites discriminadas". 2010.
  5. Castro, P.; Batel, S.; Mouro, C.. "Redesigning nature and managing risk: Social representation, change and resistance". 2010.
Edited book
  1. Caetano, António; Garrido, M. V.; Batel, S; Martins, A.,. Percursos da Investigação em Psicologia Social e Organizacional,. 2008.
Journal article
  1. Wallace, Ross; Batel, Susana. "Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements". Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12398.
    In press • 10.1111/jtsb.12398
  2. Afonso, Ana Isabel; Valquaresma, Andreia; Batel, S.; Ana Rita Guerra; Luís Silva. "The renewable energy transition and the people? – Exploring the intersections of right-wing populism and the renewable energy transition in Portuguese media discourses". Environmental Communication (2024):
    Under revision
  3. Nguyen, Minh Thu; Batel, Susana. "Which energy citizenship in positive energy districts? A governmentality social psychological analysis of participatory governance". Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 26 1 (2023): 117-130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1523908x.2023.2291386.
    Open access • Published • 10.1080/1523908x.2023.2291386
  4. Fernandes, Carolina; Batel, Susana. Corresponding author: Batel, Susana. "The right to stay: Exploring graffiti and street art as political representations against touristification in Lisbon". Papers on Social Representations 32 2 (2023): 1-26. https://psr.iscte-iul.pt/index.php/PSR/article/view/678.
    Open access • Published
  5. Stacia Ryder; Chad Walker; Susana Batel; Hannah Devine-Wright; Patrick Devine-Wright; Fin Sherry-Brennan. "Do the ends justify the means? Problematizing social acceptance and instrumentally-driven community engagement in proposed energy projects". Socio-Ecological Practice Research (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s42532-023-00148-8.
    10.1007/s42532-023-00148-8
  6. Küpers, Sophia; Batel, Susana. "Time, history and meaning-making in research on people's relations with renewable energy technologies (RETs) – A conceptual proposal". Energy Policy 173 (2023): 113358. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113358.
    Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113358
  7. "Beyond technology: A research agenda for social sciences and humanities research on renewable energy in Europe". Energy Research & Social Science (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102536.
    10.1016/j.erss.2022.102536
  8. Susana Batel; Sophia Küpers. "Politicizing hydroelectric power plants in Portugal: spatio-temporal injustices and psychosocial impacts of renewable energy colonialism in the Global North". Globalizations (2022): https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2022.2070110.
    10.1080/14747731.2022.2070110
  9. Begoña Aramayona Quintana; Susana Batel. "The ‘Urban Village’ versus the ‘City for Profit’: Querying NIMBY through a comparative analysis of touristification in Lisbon and Madrid". OBETS. Revista de Ciencias Sociales 17 1 (2022): 47-47. https://doi.org/10.14198/OBETS2022.17.1.03.
    10.14198/OBETS2022.17.1.03
  10. Nguyen, Minh-Thu; Batel, Susana. "A Critical Framework to Develop Human-Centric Positive Energy Districts: Towards Justice, Inclusion, and Well-Being". Frontiers in Sustainable Cities 3 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2021.691236.
    Open access • Published • 10.3389/frsc.2021.691236
  11. Bailey, Etienne; Devine-Wright, Patrick; Batel, Susana. "Emplacing linked lives: A qualitative approach to understanding the co-evolution of residential mobility and place attachment formation over time". Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 31 5 (2021): 515-529. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/casp.2533.
    10.1002/casp.2533
  12. Batel, Susana; Devine-Wright, Patrick. "Using NIMBY rhetoric as a political resource to negotiate responses to local energy infrastructure: a power line case study". Local Environment 25 5 (2020): 338-350. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2020.1747413.
    10.1080/13549839.2020.1747413
  13. Batel, Susana. "Re-presenting the rural in the UK press: An exploration of the construction, contestation and negotiation of media discourses on the rural within post-carbon energy transitions". Energy Policy 138 (2020): 111286. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111286.
    10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111286
  14. Batel, S.. "Research on the social acceptance of renewable energy technologies: past, present and future". Energy Research & Social Science (2020): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629620301213?via%3Dihub.
    10.1016/j.erss.2020.101544
  15. Batel, Susana; Pataco, Lúcia. "Portuguese media representations of nuclear facilities in Almaraz, Spain: beyond borders and risk perception (Representaciones en los medios portugueses de las plantas nucleares en Almaraz, España: más allá de las fronteras y la percepción del riesgo)". PsyEcology 11 1 (2019): 104-115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2019.1644004.
    10.1080/21711976.2019.1644004
  16. Margarida Santos; Susana Batel; Maria Eduarda Gonçalves. "Participatory budgeting in the age of post-politics: Examining the discourses of citizens and representatives of expert-political systems in three municipalities in Portugal". Portuguese Journal of Social Science 18 2 (2019): 153-172. https://doi.org/10.1386/pjss_00003_1.
    10.1386/pjss_00003_1
  17. Batel, Susana; Castro, Paula. "Still a matter of dialogue: A response to Potter's, Augoustinos's, and Jovchelovitch's commentaries". British Journal of Social Psychology 58 2 (2019): 428-434. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12319.
    10.1111/bjso.12319
  18. Patrick Devine-Wright; Jos Smith; Susana Batel. "“Positive parochialism”, local belonging and ecological concerns: Revisiting Common Ground's Parish Maps project". Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (2018): https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12282.
    10.1111/tran.12282
  19. Susana Batel; Paula Castro. "Reopening the dialogue between the theory of social representations and discursive psychology for examining the construction and transformation of meaning in discourse and communication". British Journal of Social Psychology (2018): https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12259.
    10.1111/bjso.12259
  20. Susana Batel. "A critical discussion of research on the social acceptance of renewable energy generation and associated infrastructures and an agenda for the future". Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (2018): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2017.1417120.
    10.1080/1523908X.2017.1417120
  21. Santos, M.; Batel, S.; Gonçalves, M. E.. "Participar está na moda: uma abordagem psicossocial dos orçamentos participativos". Psicologia e Sociedade (2018): http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-71822018000100207&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=pt.
    10.1590/1807-0310/2018v30165726
  22. Batel, S.; Devine-Wright, P.. "Populism, identities and responses to energy infrastructures at different scales in the United Kingdom: a post-Brexit reflection". Energy Research and Social Science (2018): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629618304869?via%3Dihub.
    10.1016/j.erss.2018.05.011
  23. Devine-Wright, P.; Batel, S.. "My neighbourhood, my country or my planet? The influence of multiple place attachments and climate change concern on social acceptance of energy infrastructure". Global Environmental Change 47 (2017): 110-120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.08.003.
    10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.08.003
  24. Susana Batel; Patrick Devine-Wright. "Energy Colonialism and the Role of the Global in Local Responses to New Energy Infrastructures in the UK: A Critical and Exploratory Empirical Analysis". Antipode (2017): https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fanti.12261.
    10.1111/anti.12261
  25. Devine-Wright, P.; Batel, S.; Aas, O.; Sovacool, B.; LaBelle, M.C.; Ruud, A.. "A conceptual framework for understanding the social acceptance of energy infrastructure: Insights from energy storage". Energy Policy 107 (2017): 27-31. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85018460326&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.enpol.2017.04.020
  26. Susana Batel; Paula Castro; Patrick Devine-Wright; Caroline Howarth. "Developing a critical agenda to understand pro-environmental actions: contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories". Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 7 5 (2016): 727-745. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.417.
    10.1002/wcc.417
  27. Batel, S.; Castro, P.; Devine-Wright, P.; Howarth, C.. "Corrigendum to: Developing a critical agenda to understand pro-environmental actions: contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories (WIREs Clim Change, (2016), 7, (727-745), 10.1002/wcc.417)". Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 7 6 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84991289750&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1002/wcc.436
  28. Bailey, E.; Devine-Wright, P.; Batel, S.. "Understanding responses to a uk high-voltage powerline proposal: The role of place and project-based social representations". Papers on Social Representations 25 1 (2016): 2.1-2.24. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85000624314&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  29. Bailey, E.; Devine-Wright, P.; Batel, S.. "Using a narrative approach to understand place attachments and responses to power line proposals: The importance of life-place trajectories". Journal of Environmental Psychology 48 (2016): 200-211. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84994480626&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jenvp.2016.10.006
  30. Batel, S.; Adams, M.. "Ecological crisis, sustainability and social worlds: developing a critical agenda". Papers on Social Representations 25 1 (2016): 1.1-1.27. http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/psr/PSR2016/1.%20Batel%20&%20Adams_Formatted.pdf.
  31. Susana Batel; Patrick Devine-Wright; Line Wold; Helene Egeland; Gerd Jacobsen; Oystein Aas. "The role of (de-)essentialisation within siting conflicts: An interdisciplinary approach". Journal of Environmental Psychology 44 (2015): 149-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2015.10.004.
    10.1016/j.jenvp.2015.10.004
  32. Hogne Lerøy Sataøen; Ole Andreas Brekke; Susana Batel; Martin Albrecht. "Towards a sustainable grid development regime? A comparison of British, Norwegian, and Swedish grid development". Energy Research & Social Science 9 (2015): 178-187. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2015.08.011.
    10.1016/j.erss.2015.08.011
  33. Guerreiro, S.; Batel, S.; Lima, M.L.; Moreira, S.. "Making energy visible: sociopsychological aspects associated with the use of smart meters". Energy Efficiency 8 6 (2015): 1149-1167. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84947864324&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s12053-015-9344-4
  34. Knudsen, J.K.; Wold, L.C.; Aas, T.; Kielland Haug, J.J.; Batel, S.; Devine-Wright, P.; Qvenild, M.; Jacobsen, G.B.. "Local perceptions of opportunities for engagement and procedural justice in electricity transmission grid projects in Norway and the UK". Land Use Policy 48 (2015): 299-308. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84934888533&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.04.031
  35. Batel, Susana; Castro, Paula. "Collective Action and Social Change: Examining the Role of Representation in the Communication between Protesters and Third-party Members". Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 25 3 (2014): 249-263. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/casp.2214.
    10.1002/casp.2214
  36. Batel, Susana; Devine-Wright, Patrick. "Towards a better understanding of people’s responses to renewable energy technologies: Insights from Social Representations Theory". Public Understanding of Science 24 3 (2014): 311-325. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662513514165.
    10.1177/0963662513514165
  37. Batel, S.; Devine-Wright, P.. "A critical and empirical analysis of the national-local 'gap' in public responses to large-scale energy infrastructures". Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (2014): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84901892981&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/09640568.2014.914020
  38. Aas, Ø.; Devine-Wright, P.; Tangeland, T.; Batel, S.; Ruud, A.. "Public beliefs about high-voltage powerlines in Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom: A comparative survey". Energy Research and Social Science 2 (2014): 30-37. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84904605062&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.erss.2014.04.012
  39. Marques, S.; Mendonça, J.; Vauclair, C.-M.; Bernardes, S.F.; Batel, S.; Lima, M. L.. "The SIforAGE project: social innovation for active and healthy ageing". Revista Transcultural (2014): http://www.psitranscultural.pt/publicacoes.html.
  40. Batel, S.; Devine-Wright, P.; Tangeland, T.. "Social acceptance of low carbon energy and associated infrastructures: A critical discussion". Energy Policy 58 (2013): 1-5. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84877133664&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.enpol.2013.03.018
  41. Devine-Wright, P.; Batel, S.. "Explaining public preferences for high voltage pylon designs: An empirical study of perceived fit in a rural landscape". Land Use Policy 31 (2013): 640-649. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84871774273&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.09.011
  42. Batel, S.. "Commentary on re-presenting (and) cognitive polyphasia". Papers on Social Representations (2012): http://psr.iscte-iul.pt/index.php/PSR/article/view/342.
  43. Batel, S.; Castro, P.. "A social representations approach to the communication between different spheres: An analysis of the impacts of two discursive formats". Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 39 4 (2009): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70450285230&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/j.1468-5914.2009.00412.x
  44. Castro, P.; Batel, S.. "Social representation, change and resistance: On the difficulties of generalizing new norms". Culture and Psychology 14 4 (2008): 475-497. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-55749097970&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1177/1354067X08096512
  45. Castro, P.; Batel, S.. "Técnico e cidadão, eis a questão: um caso de participação pública no espaço urbano". Psicologia (2007): http://appsicologia.org/.
    10.17575/rpsicol.v21i2.369
  46. Lima, M. L.; Marques, S.; Batel, S.; Carvalho, S.; Haldon, J.; Pornin, S.. "Estou mais seguro na minha cidade do que os outros: identidade com o lugar e optimismo comparativo na percepção de riscos urbanos". Psicologia (2007): http://appsicologia.org/.
    10.17575/rpsicol.v21i2.366

Other

Other output
  1. Social Psychology as a social science. 2020. Batel, S.; Guerra, R.. https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/publications/social-psychology-as-a-social-science/66872?lang=en.
    10.1386/pjss_00001_2
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/01/26 Politicising hydroelectric power plants in Portugal: spatio-temporal injustices and psychosocial impacts of renewable energy colonialism in the Global North 7º Encontro de Economia Política
ISEG (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/12 Politicizing hydropower plants in Portugal through a (renewable) energy colonialism lens Modernidad, energía y poder. Una historia cultural ecoenergética del sur de Europa
Museo Reina Sofia (Spain)
2023/10 What is critical environmental psychology? Lecture Series: Critical/Decolonial Perspectives on the Polycrisis
Rurh-University Bochum (Germany)
2023/09 CLIMATE CRISIS AND THE GREEN TRANSITION: THE RELEVANCE OF A CRITICAL PSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH 19th Days of Applied Psychology
University of Nis (Serbia)
2023/06 Energy Citizenship in response to ¿environmental injustice and social inequalities International Conference of Environmental Psychology 2023
Aarhus University (Denmark)
2023/06 Green and just energy? – An analysis of the intersections of right-wing populism and the energy transition in Portuguese media International Conference of Environmental Psychology 2023
Aarhus University (Denmark)
2022/05 The green transition - Which implications for socio-environmental justice and human rights? Mappings and challenges. Green Readers
Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
2022/04 The green energy transition: Which implications for energy citizenship and human rights Energy PROSPECTS Workshop
Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
2021/12 A Critical Environmental Psychology approach to people-environment and energy studies Higher School of Economics Environmental Psychology Seminar Series
University of Moscow (Russia)
2021/11 Energy for sustainable and inclusive societies 15th Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan) Conference of the European Commission
European Commission (Slovenia)
2021/10 Going beyond social acceptance: Some insights from onshore renewable energy transitions Winds of Change: Off-Shore Energy Production and the Social Sciences
Bates University (United States)
2021/09 The green transition - Which implications for environmental justice and human rights? Reflections from Critical Environmental Psychology 8º Congresso 4us 4all da Ecozoic - Associação de Jovens para o Ambiente e Direitos Humanos
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
2020/12/15 Uma abordagem crítica da psicologia social aos estudos sociais da energia e do ambiente [A critical approach of social psychology to the social studies of energy and the environment]. Seminar presented at the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil)
2020/01 Developing a critical socio-psychological approach to the social studies of energy and the environment. Seminar presented at the Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale of the Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, France Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale of the Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, France
Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, France (Aix-en-Provence, France)
2019/03 Energy transitions and energy colonialism: A critical review. International Seminar on Environment and Society
Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/01 Developing a critical socio-psychological approach to the social studies of energy and the environment.
Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale of the Aix-Marseille Université (Aix-en-Provence, France)
2019 The relation between graffiti and street art and the processes of gentrification and touristification in Lisbon: A psycho-social and political analysis 2019 PSICAMB Conference
Universidade de Tenerife (Spain)
2018/04 Developing a critical approach to the social studies of energy and the environment: Theoretical and methodological contributions from the Theory of Social Representations.
e-learning course Social and Cultural Representations of the UQAM - Université du Québeq à Montréal (Canada)
2018/02 The psycho-social impacts of large-scale infrastructures in rural areas. Jornadas de Engenharia do Ambiente 2018
Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/02 Developing a critical approach to the social studies of energy and the environment.
Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017 Social representations theory in critical and interdisciplinary hands: Some elements for a better understanding of people’s responses to energy technologies 1st Conference on Energy Research and Social Science
Sitges (Spain)
2017 NIMBY protests to urban changes: A comparative analysis between Lisbon and Madrid XIV PSICAMB Conference of Environmental Psychology
Universidade de Évora (Portugal)
2016 The construction and transformation of meaning: How to conceptualize and to examine them through discourse and communication. Paper presented at the symposium Social Psychologies of Everyday Life 13th International Conference on Social Representations
Université Aix-Marseille (France)
2015 “I’m a NIMBY”, “We are all NIMBYs” or “we are custodians of this area”? The different uses of NIMBY as a discursive resource for members of local communities to negotiate responses to high voltage power lines in the UK RGS-IGB Annual International Conference 2015
RGS (United Kingdom)
2014 Essentialising places: understanding the strategic role of discursive constructions within siting conflicts 23rd IAPS Conference
University of Timisoara (Romania)
2013 Towards a better understanding of people’s responses to renewable energy technologies: Insights from Social Representations Theory 10th Biennial Conference of Environmental Psychology
University of Magdburg (Germany)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2019/10/15 - Current Inclusive PEDs: Case study lessons for energy justice and eliminating energy poverty.
Supervisor
 Psicologia (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
2019/10/01 - Current Citizens’ perceptions of PEDs: An integration framework of citizens’ socio-psychological factors with stakeholders’ economic and political priorities.
Supervisor
 Psicologia (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
2019/07/15 - Current People’s responses to large-scale renewable energy generation and associated infrastructures: A socio-historical approach.
Supervisor
 Psicologia (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
2019/07/15 - Current Socio-technical imaginaries of future energy landscapes
Supervisor
 Psicologia (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
2022 - 2025 Social representations of climate change and pro environmental actions in Portugal: Understanding the role of political -ideological orientations, cultural values, and associated identities
Supervisor
 Psychology (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022 - 2023 How social movements for climate action are perceived and discussed on Twitter, using COP27 as a case study
Supervisor
 Psicologia Social e das Organizações (Master)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022 - 2023 Representation of women in American and Canadian newspapers in the discourse on climate change and COP27 and the associated psychosocial impacts
Supervisor
 Psicologia da Mobilidade Global, Inclusão e Diversidade na Sociedade - Erasmus Mundus (Master)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022 - 2023 A ghost in search of a machine: Perspectives of Portuguese social psychologists about research and social change
Supervisor
 Psicologia das Relações Interculturais (Master)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022 - 2023 Menstruation hygiene products and sustainability
Supervisor
 Estudos Sociais do Ambiente e da Sustentabilidade (Master)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/09/30 - 2022/09/05 Decarbonization communication in the shadow of crises: social representations of the media on energy in the agrifood sector
Supervisor
 MSc in Sustainability and Environmental Studies (Master)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Belonging to a neighbourhood in a touristification context: A study regarding place attachment and intergroup relations between traditional residents and migrants living in Mouraria
Supervisor
 MSc in Social and Organizational Psychology (Master)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Media representations on the psychosocial impacts of climate change in Portugal
Supervisor
 MSc in Social and Organizational Psychology (Master)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2019 - 2021 How is gentrification lived? A psycho-social study of the experience of gentrification in Lisbon
Supervisor of Robyn Ribeiro
 Master in Social and Organizational Psychology (Master)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2014/10/01 - 2019/12/20 Participação pública institucional – A democracia segue dentro de momentos. Uma perspectiva crítica dos orçamentos participativos.
Supervisor
 Psicologia (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
2017/09/30 - 2018/10/31 Analysis of the social representations of the Portuguese media about solar energy in Portugal.
Supervisor
 Psicologia (Master)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
2011/06/01 - 2016/06/01 Place attachment, place identity and place change: The context of a UK electricity transmission grid proposal.
Co-supervisor
 Geografia (PhD)
University of Exeter Department of Geography, United Kingdom
2011/10/01 - 2012/07/06 Making energy visible: Socio-psychological correlates to the use of smart meters in households.
Co-supervisor
 Psicologia (Master)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2021 - 2022 Member of the organising committee of the 27th International Association of People-Environment Studies Conference (2022/07 - 2022/07)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2020/11 - Current Participation in the European Night of Researchers in Portugal with the video “Comunidades auto-sustentáveis: participação pública em desafios ambientais e na transição energética” (Self-sustainable communities: public participation in environmental challenges and in the energy transition) and related Q&A.
Exhibition
 European Night of Researchers
EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Belgium

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/12 Intimate Partner Violence: Evaluation and development of campaigns tailored for victimized men
(Thesis) Arguer
 Eduardo Reis (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/12 Social impacts of solar energy development in urban areas: The importance of habits change after the energy transition.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Tereza Emilinova (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023 Reframing the energy debate: the intermediary role of news media in sociotechnical energy transition
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Chelsea Mullens (PhD)
The University of Melbourne School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences - Creswick Campus, Australia
2022 Representing and regulating the foreign resident: a socio-psychological approach to the struggles over the meaning of citizenship and mobility
(Thesis) Arguer
 Tânia Santos (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022 Contesting Energy Islandscapes: A Relational Comparison
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Steve Harry (PhD)
King's College London Department of Geography, United Kingdom
2022 Dynamics of community acceptance – Local responses to wind energy projects
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Nina Schneider (PhD)
University of St Gallen, Switzerland
2022 Promoting individual adaptation to extreme heat weather events: The role of affective and socio-cognitive factors in situational appraisals of challenge or threat
(Thesis) Arguer
 Samuel Domingos (PhD)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2021 Beyond status quo: The role of behavioral factors and familiarity in low-carbon decision-making
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Nathalie Dällenbach (PhD)
University of St Gallen, Switzerland
2020 Social acceptance of solar energy as intention, willingness and readiness.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Hai, A. (PhD)
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
2020 Legal innovation to promote the employment of people with disabilities: A psycho-social analysis of the reception of the quota system in public administration
(Thesis) Arguer
 Neca, P. (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/09/12 Ciudad (in)civilizada. Marginalidad urbana, ecologia del miedo y populismo punitivo en la ciudad de Madrid. Los cases de El Rastro (Centro) y San Diego (Puente de Vallecas).
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Begonna Aramayona Quintana (PhD)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2018 A sustentabilidade do desenvolvimento em Cabo Verde no contexto dos pequenos Estados insulares: A política pública de energia.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Luzia Oliveira (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2018 Determinants for the local acceptability of wind power in Finland.
(Thesis) Arguer
 S. Jahunen (PhD)
LUT University, Finland
2014 Voices heard and unheard: An exploration of community acceptance and resistance of lower-carbon energy infrastructure.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Carmel Anderson (PhD)
Australian National University, Australia

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2016 - Current IAPS – International Association of People-Environment Studies Membro da Direção
2015 - Current PSICAMB –Iberian Association of Environmental Psychology Membro da Direção

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2020 - Current Renewables Grid Initiative, Member of the Jury for the ‘Good Practice of theYear’ Award Renewable Grid Initiative, Germany
2018 - Current Co-editora da revista científica internacional com revisão por pares Papers on Social Representations
Coordinator
2017 - Current Membro da Comissão Científica do Centro de Investigação e de Intervenção Social do ISCTE.
Member
 ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2017 - Current XIVth PSICAM Conference on Environmental Psychology Évora
2023/12 - 2024 28th International Association of People-Environment Studies Conference University of Barcelona
2020 - 2020 26th International Association of People-Environment Studies Conference Québec City
2017 - 2017 26th Society for Risk Analysis - Europe Annual Conference Lisboa

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/02 - 2024/05 Qualitative Methods in Psychology Psicologia das Relações Interculturais (Mestrado integrado) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/02 - 2024/05 Contemporary Challenges in Environmental Sciences Estudos do Ambiente e da Sustentabilidade (Mestrado integrado) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/10 - 2024/05 Lectures in Psychology Or in Other Social Sciences and Humanities Psicologia (Doutoramento) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/11 - 2023/12 Research Seminar in Psychology - Advanced Methodologies Psicologia (Doutoramento) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/09 - 2023/01 Methods and Application Areas of Psychology Psicologia (Licenciatura) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Environmental Justice, Advocacy, and Urban Regeneration (Licenciatura) Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/11 - 2022/11 Research Seminar in Psychology - Advanced Methodologies Psicologia (Doutoramento) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/02 - 2022/06 Qualitative Methods in Psychology Ciências em Emoções (Mestrado integrado) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Behavior and Environment Estudos Sociais do Ambiente e da Sustentabilidade (Mestrado integrado) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Environmental Justice, Advocacy, and Urban Regeneration (Licenciatura) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2019 - Current Avaliadora de projeto para o Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions
Evaluator
 Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, Canada
2019 - Current Avaliadora para Swiss National Science Foundation
Evaluator
 Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Switzerland
2019 - Current Avaliadora de projeto para Independent Social Research Foundation
Evaluator
 Independent Social Research Foundation, United Kingdom
2023/12 - 2024/04 Member of the evaluation committee for the 2022 NordForsk Green Transition call.
Evaluator
 Nordforsk, Norway Nordforsk
2022 - 2024 Member of evaluation committee for EUTOPIA-SIF 2nd, 3rd and 4th calls
Evaluator
 CY Cergy Paris Université, France EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2023/11/17 Interviewed for newspaper Público regarding the protests by climate activists that were contested by the Portuguese far-right populist party Chega Público
2021/01 Participation in online newspaper article on COVID-19, urban planning, environmental issues and mental health (sapo.pt/noticias/atualidade/artigos/a-minha-cidade-deixa-me-ainda-mais-triste-em-tempos-de-pandemia-qual-a-razao-e-que-solucoes-temos-a-mao). Sapo.pt

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023 - Current Global Environmental Psychology
2018 - Current Portuguese Journal of Social Science (17589509)
2016 - Current Papers on Social Representations (1819-3978)
Distinctions

Award

2023 ISCTE-IUL Scientific Awards
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022 ISCTE-IUL Scientific Awards
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2020 ISCTE-IUL Scientific Awards
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Other distinction

2019 ISCTE-IUL Scientific Awards
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2018 ISCTE-IUL Scientific Awards
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2017 ISCTE-IUL Scientific Awards
2016 ISCTE-IUL Scientific Awards
2014 ISCTE-IUL Scientific Awards