Miss Nuria Martinez

I joined CCCU as an Instructor in the Psychology Department 2021. My main duties focus on running seminars and workshops across all year levels. I've also delivered some lectures focusing on the history of psychology as a discipline and on topics related to my areas of interest.

My research interests are anchored within social and political psychology. I'm particularly interested in the role that social identities play in influencing a wide range of political and group-related behaviours. My PhD is supervised by Dr Dennis Nigbur and focuses on the social identity dynamics of the Catalan independence movement. I have also collaborated on research projects helping with the re-opening of large events during the COVID-19 pandemic and exploring national collective mourning after HM the Queen's passing in 2022.

I am an Associate Fellow of Higher Education (AFHEA). My teaching mainly focuses on delivering workshops on research methods (quantitative and qualitative), but I also deliver seminars in other areas of psychology (classic studies, biological, cognitive, developmental and social psychology). 

Publications:

• Martinez, N., & Law, J. (2022). Book Review: Enraged, rattled and wronged: Entitlement’s response to social progress by Kristin J. Anderson. Feminism & Psychology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535221129502. 
• Murphy, J. & Martinez, N. (2022). Quantifying religiosity: a comparison of approaches based on categorical self-identification and multidimensional measures of religious activity. Religion, Brain & Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070252

Conferences:

• Martinez, N (2022).(De)mobilising political change in Catalonia: orienting to the electoral and normative constraints of nationalist rhetoric in the context of a national identity deadlock. Paper Presented at the 22nd Jena Workshop On Intergroup Processes (Germany),
• Martinez, N. (2022). Supporting the group: How care for ingroup members and social norms impacted adherence to Covid-19 measures during the Events Research Programme (ERP). An interview study. Paper presented at the BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Meeting (London)