Welcome!

I am a PhD student at Scuola Normale Superiore and a researcher in HOME - How Members of Parliament in Africa Represent Their Constituencies. In March 2023, I was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University.

My research focuses on social identities and political behaviour (conventional and non-conventional) in Western and Southern Europe (i.e., Portugal and Spain), and on political representation and constituency service in Sub-Saharan Africa.

My research interests lie at the intersection between sociology, political and social psychology (e.g., social identity theory and social representations theory), and comparative politics. Over the last years, I became interested in developing and implementing mixed-methods and multi-modal research designs to study how ordinary citizens make sense of politics and how it informs their political behaviour.

I hold a MSc in Sociology from ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, a Post-graduation in Social Research Methods from ICS - Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, and a BA in Political Science and International Relations from NOVA University of Lisbon

If any of this is of interest to you or think that we share similar interests, please feel free to reach out at andre.marinha@sns.it