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Elena Andrade Fernández

Associate Professor

Department: Social and Basic Psychology and Methodology

Center: Faculty of Psychology (USC)

Research group: Social Behavior And Applied Psychometry (COSOYPA)

Phone: +34 881 81 13716

Email: elena.andrade@usc.es

Web group: COSOYPA Social Behavior and Applied Psychometric

   
   

Elena Andrade has been an Associate Professor in Methodology for the Behavioural Sciences at the University of Santiago de Compostela since 2003. She earned her degree and PhD in Psychology from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), and a postgraduate degree from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

As a lecturer, she has taught courses on research methodology (mainly on statistical data analysis and psychometrics) in undergraduate, master’s and doctoral programmes. In addition, she has held several academic positions and responsibilities at USC, serving, for example, as secretary and head of her department, coordinator of two master’s degree programmes, or member of the organising committee of three international conferences.

She has supervised six doctoral theses, and is co-author of a number of scientific papers, books, and book chapters (h-index of 11, according to Web of Science). She has participated in competitive national and European projects (H2020, Interreg POCTEP), in several contracts with companies, and in the launch of a spin-off, an initiative that received the “Woman” award in the VII Contest of Innovative Business Projects of the USC. She is a long-time member of the European Association of Methodology, with several short stays in departments of universities in Europe (Leiden University, Surrey University, Universities of Barcelona and Oviedo) and the United States (Washington State University).

Her research has a clear multi- and inter-disciplinary vocation. According to her academic background in research methodology, she has published study reports aimed at improving assessment and diagnosis instruments and protocols in journals such as PlosOne, PeerJ, Psicothema, and Frontiers in Psychology. Regarding her participation in environmental projects, she is involved in the analysis of sustainability indicators and in the modelling of the social perception of environmental technologies. The results of these projects have been published in journals such as Ecological Indicators, Sustainable Cities and Society, Water Research, and Resources, Conservation, and Recycling. She is also developing a growing interest line on the perception of virtual, natural and built environments.

Main UNESCO specialisations: Methodology (6107.01), Statistics (6105.04), Psychometrics (6105.05), Test construction (6105.07), Cognition and environmental behaviour (6199).

Research Lines
• Psychological assessment and diagnosis instruments and protocols
• Sustainability indicators
• Social perception of environmental technologies
• Immersive virtual reality of natural and built environments