Ana Filipa Albuquerque Madeira

She received her doctorate in Migrations, with a specialty in Social Psychology, from the University of Lisbon. She has been a Research Visiting Scholar at the Intergroup Research Lab at Yale University and at the Social Cognition Lab at UCL University. She was the Principal Investigator of two research projects, WHOLS - Whose Lives Should Be Saved? Patients’ Race/Ethnicity and Medical Rationing during the COVID-19 Pandemic (LL20-30) and WEMIX - "We Even Mixed!": Colonial Ideologies, Racism Denial and Social Exclusion in Contemporary Portugal (FP24-2B), both from the Social Observatory of ”la Caixa”.

Currently, she is Principal Investigator of the research project LUSO - The past in the present: Social Psychological Underpinnings of Luso-tropicalism in the Legitimation of Social and Racial Inequality (2022.05941.PTDC).

Filipa Madeira is currently accepting applications from Master's and Ph.D. students interested in conducting research under her supervision. Her current research interests are divided into two streams:

Project Stream 1: The Social Psychology of Colonialism. This stream focuses on understanding the psychosocial consequences of colonial representations for contemporary intergroup relations. Specifically, it examines the impact of colonial ideological thinking on race relations, with a focus on the relationship between lusotropicalism and the legitimization of social inequality.

Project Stream 2. The Social Psychology of Racial Inequalities in Healthcare. This stream aims to understand how socio-psychological processes influence medical decision-making, producing intergroup inequalities in healthcare delivery. In addition, it seeks to develop and implement tools to measure bias in clinical decision-making processes.

Students interested in empirical approaches to colonial ideology and intergroup inequalities in different domains of social life (e.g., healthcare, education, housing, policing) are encouraged to get in touch.

Keywords: Intergroup Relations; Intergroup Healthcare Inequalities; Colonial Ideologies; Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination.