Catherine Lido

Published: 7 May 2019

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Dr Catherine Lido is a Social Psychologist in the School of Education, University of Glasgow, with more than 15 years' experience lecturing and researching the psychology of stereotyping, prejudice and diversity.  S

he is Co-Investigator, and an educational researcher for Urban Big Data Centre, where she explores educational marginalisation, using big data and innovative technology.  Her PhD, from the University of Sussex, was in the area of gender stereotypes in occupational settings. She is also a visiting lecturer at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and her main research interests lie in bias and inclusion in lifelong learning, and novel methodological approaches to exploring these issues. 

She recently gave an invited talk on 'Lifewide Literacies and Inclusion' to the Royal Society of Edinburgh- Ministry of Science & Technology 'Big Data Workshop' (Taiwan), at a Scotland-wide workshop on reducing media bias in reporting on refugees this (Dec. 2018), and presented to the International Transformative Learning Community conference (Columbia, NY). Dr Lido collaborated successfully on an ESRC, IAA ‘Visualising Life-wide Literacies’, presenting innovative public engagement work at University of Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Awards, ESRC Festival of Social Science and the Psychologist magazine, as well as regularly appearing on BBC Radio Scotland. Dr Lido is Co-Investigator on the EPSRC-funded VisNET project supporting early career women in STEM. 


First published: 7 May 2019