Dr Táhcita Medrado Mizael
Teaching Fellow in Clinical Psychology
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Doorway 6
Old Medical School
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
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Background
I am a Teaching Fellow in Clinical Psychology, supporting postgraduate students and trainees from the MSc in Mental Health in Children and Young People: Psychological Approaches and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.
I am originally from Brazil, where I completed my BSc, MSc, and PhD. During my PhD, I spent a period at Maynooth University (Ireland) on a research visit. My MSc and PhD focused on experimental ways to reduce racial bias in children. We devised a simple procedure that effectively reduced those biases, and its reduction was maintained six weeks after the procedure. This was a rare and important result. After my PhD, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher on a project that examined the intersection of gender and race, focusing on Black women’s lives and experiences with racial microaggressions and related phenomena. During this period, I spent time at the University of South Australia on a research visit as part of my project.
Since I began my MSc in 2013, I have worked on several research projects involving topics such as race and ethnic relations, sexual and gender minorities, prejudice, feminism, gender relations, and autism. I am also a chartered psychologist in Brazil with experience working mostly with Black, LGBTQIA+, and neurodivergent individuals.
Before joining the University of Edinburgh, I also worked in several postgraduate courses in Brazil, teaching modules such as “Therapeutic Skills: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and race relations II”, “Therapeutic Skills: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and LGBT individuals”, “Research supervision”, “Cultural adaptations of behavioural activation for minorities”, and “Learning and Autism”.
Qualifications
PhD in Psychology, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, 2019, Brazil
MsC in Psychology, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, 2015, Brazil
BsC (Hons) in Psychology, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, 2013, Brazil
Responsibilities & affiliations
Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Supervisor
MSc in Mental Health in Children and Young People: Psychological Approaches Dissertation Supervisor
MSc Psychology of Mental Health (Conversion) Dissertation Supervisor
Ethics Panel Member
Postgraduate teaching
Course Organiser “Evidence-Based Psychological Interventions”.
Course Organiser “Applied Developmental Psychopathology” (Online).
Course Co-Organiser "Psychological Therapies"
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Research summary
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI). Racism. Race and ethnic relations. Prejudice. Gender issues. Feminism. Sexual and Gender Minorities. Autism. Mental health. Behaviour analysis. Relational Frame Theory. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Project activity
My projects focus on minoritised groups such as Black individuals and other non-White groups, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and autistic people.
Currently, my projects address minoritised students in elite universities, knowledge of Doctorate in Clinical Psychology trainees about race relations, gender stereotypes, and clinical behaviour analysis.
Invited speaker
Selected Invited Speaker Conferences
Mizael, T. M. (2025). Why race and ethnicity in Behaviour Analysis? 12th International Conference. Lisbon, Portugal.
Mizael, T. M. (2025). Contextual Behavioural Science’s Engagement with Race & Ethnicity: Where We Are and Where We Need To Be. Association for Contextual Behavioural Science (ACBS) United Kingdom and Ireland Chapter. Manchester, UK.
Mizael, T. M. (2024). An Investigation of Racial Microaggressions Experienced by Black Brazilian Women Living in Australia. 50th Annual Convention of the Association for Behaviour Analysis International - Philadelphia (United States).
Mizael, T. M. (2022). Derived Relational Responding Meets Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Contributions from the field. ACBS World Conference - San Francisco (United States).
Lieberman, E., Vaidya, J., Mizael, T. M., & Farrell, L. (2022). From Experience to Identity: Conceptualizing Gender from a CBS Lens. Panel at the ACBS World Conference - San Francisco (United States).
Mizael, T. M. (2022). Microagressões raciais e análise do comportamento: Articulações iniciais [Racial microaggressions and behaviour analysis: Initial articulations]. XXI Encontro da Associação Brasileira Ciências do Comportamento [XXI Meeting of the Brazilian Association of Behavioural Sciences – Brazil].
Mizael, T. M. (2020). Direitos Humanos: Perspectivas na relação entre Psicologia e Deficiência. [Human rights: Perspectives in the relation between Psychology and disabilities]. Palestra promovida pelo Conselho Federal de Psicologia (Presentation organised by the Brazilian Council of Psychology).