People

I received my PhD from the University of Trento (Italy) in 2011. After few years as a postdoc at different universities in Europe (CITEC - University of Bielefeld, University of Padua, ISCTE-IUL, University of Milano-Bicocca), I joined the University of Surrey as a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellow. Since October 2018, I am a Lecturer in Social Psychology. My research interests involve auditory gaydar, voice-based stereotyping and stigmatisation, derogatory language, reclaiming, media representation of gender and sexual minorities, and body image.

I completed my undergraduate studies at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, before moving to United Kingdom to complete an MSc in Social and Applied Psychology at the University of Kent. I completed my PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Kent in September 2019. Before joining the University of Surrey, I was a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Kent (2018-2020). In April 2020, I joined the School of Psychology at the University of Surrey as an Assistant Professor. The overarching theme of my research is understanding the sense that people make of gender relations, investigating the socio-cognitive and ideological factors, which influence the accuracy of our judgements about gender (e.g., personal and social identity) and gender relations (e.g., sexism, feminism, intimate relationships).  My research interests include gender stereotyping, sexism, feminist identity, political ideology, and collective actions. 

I am completing a Psychology PhD at the University of Surrey. My broader research interest is exploring the maintenance of gender roles in heterosexual relationships. My PhD research focuses on how adolescents and adults view heterosexual relationship traditions and how this can be linked to sexism.

My PhD project looks at mentoring relationships in the workplace. I am also an Early Stage Researcher within G-Versity, a wider Marie Curie project that aims at increasing diversity in occupations and improve the work experiences of people with minority identities.

I completed my undergraduate studies in Psychology at the University of Belgrade, followed by an MSc in Research Psychology at the same university. I joined the University of Surrey in 2021, as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow. The central theme of my research focuses on the processes by which children develop their comprehension of the social world, with a specific focus on the role that parents play in shaping this understanding. My research interests include parent-child conversations, addressing social topics with children, parents’ gender biases, gender stereotyping, and gendering pathways towards careers.

My research project aims to examine the links between ambivalent sexism and attachment theory. In particular, my project examines whether culture (individualist and collectivist) affects people's attachment styles, ambivalent sexist thoughts and behaviours, and romantic/intimate relationships.