Cristina Marinho

Lecturer

  • Psychology
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contact details

Address

Street

Room S5a, Psychology Building

City
7 George Square, Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9JZ

Availability

  • Office hours: Tuesdays 11am-12:30pm.

Biography

Background

PhD, Social Psychology, Loughborough University (England, UK)

MSc, Social and Organisational Psychology, ISCTE (University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal)

Undergraduate teaching

Academic Year of 2024/25

Year 1: Contribution to Research Methods (Psychology 1B).

Year 2: Contribution to Research Methods (Psychology 2A); Social Psychology (Psychology 2A); responsible for the Qualitative Social Psychology Lab.  

Year 3:  Contribution to Qualitative Methods in Psychology (QMiP); contribution to Critical Analysis (CA).

Year 4: Dissertation in Psychology (supervision); contribution to Psychology Tutorial Course and General Paper in Psychology.

Postgraduate teaching

Academic Year of 2024/25

Qualitative Methodologies in Psychological Research (QMiPR) (Course Organiser)

Dissertation in Psychology (supervision)

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Research summary

Present research interests are on forms of misrepresenting reality by politicians (namely, politicians manipulating people and information/statistics), how to oppose political manipulation, political constructions of history/myths, language of parliamentary commemoration and public engagement with climate change news. 

ORCID 0009-0001-9340-5386

Selected publications:

Books

Billig, M., & Marinho, C. (2025). Politicians Manipulating Statistics: How They Do It and How to Stop Them. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/psychology/social-psychology/politicians-manipulating-statistics-how-they-do-it-and-how-oppose-them?format=PB ; for a review in Nature please see: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01234-5

Billig, M., & Marinho, C. (2017). The politics and rhetoric of commemoration: How the Portuguese Parliament celebrates the 1974 Revolution. London: Bloomsbury (Academic Series).  https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/politics-and-rhetoric-of-commemoration-9781474297738/

 

Book chapters

Billig, M., & Marinho, C. (2024). Manipulating information and manipulating people: examples from the 2004 Portuguese parliamentary celebration of the April revolution. In John E. Richardson & Tommaso M. Milani (eds.), The Politics and Rhetoric of Collective Remembering. Routledge. 

Marinho, C., & Billig, M. (2024). How can governments be prevented from manipulating statistics about Covid-19? An example from UK politics. In C. Ilie (ed.),  Manufacturing Dissent. Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis (pp. 186-214). John Benjamins.

Billig, M., & Marinho, C. (2023). Using Examples to Misrepresent the World. In R. Harris & J. Fahnestock (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on Language and Persuasion (pp.113-128). Routledge.

Billig, M., & Marinho, C. (2019). Literal and Metaphorical Silences in Rhetoric: Examples from the Celebration of the 1974 Revolution in the Portuguese Parliament. In A. J. Murray and K. Durrheim (eds), Qualitative studies of silence: The unsaid as social action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Billig, M., & Marinho, C. (2015). Rhetoric and Psychology: ending the dominance of nouns. In J. Martin, J. Sugarman and K. Slaney (eds), The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology: Methods, Approaches, and New Directions for Social Science (pp. 117-132). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley.

Marinho, C., & Billig, M. (2013). The CDS-PP and the Portuguese Parliament’s annual celebration of the 1974 Revolution: ambivalence and avoidance in the construction of the fascist past. In R. Wodak and J. E. Richardson (eds.), Analysing Fascist Discourse: European fascism in talk and text (pp. 146-162). London: Routledge.

Widdicombe, S., & Marinho, C. (2021). Challenges in Research on Self-Identity.  In M. Bamberg, C. Demuth & M. Watzlawik (Eds.), Handbook of Identity (pp. 57-76). Cambridge University Press. 

 

Journal articles

Billig, M. & Marinho, C. (2023). Preventing the Political Manipulation of COVID-19 Statistics: the importance of going beyond diplomatic language. Language in Society, 52(5): 733-755. First View online: doi:10.1017/S0047404522000367.

Billig, M., & Marinho, C. (2020). Metonymy, myth and politicians doing things with words: Examples from the Portuguese celebration of April 25. Pratiques Psychologiques, 26(4), 265-278.

Billig, M., & Marinho, C. (2014). Manipulating information and manipulating people: examples from the Portuguese parliamentary celebration of the April Revolution. Critical Discourse Studies, 11(2), 158-174.

Past project grants

PPLS Small Project Grant: Public engagement with climate news: a feasibility study (1/02/24 → 31/07/24). Project with Dr Sue Widdicombe (https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/sue-widdicombe) and Dr Rahul Sambaraju (https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/rahul-sambaraju). 

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