Dr Maria Fernandes-Jesus

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Dr Maria Fernandes-Jesus

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m.fernandesjesus@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

School of Education, Language & Psychology

Organisation:

York St John University

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https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/our-staff/staff-profiles/maria-fernandes-jesus.php

Biography

Job title:

Lecturer in Psychology

Biography:

My research interests focus on how groups and communities resist, contest and overcome social injustice and power inequalities. Themes in my current research include climate and environmental justice, community engagement, collective action and social movements, political agency, youth participation and social inclusion.

Qualifications:

PhD

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Fernandes-Jesus, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8868-1968, Hamilton, Lorna, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0526-8252, Heinemeyer, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6300-5544 and Parks, Judith (2023) Qualitative Research Methods in the Living Lab: Reflecting upon a learning and teaching approach for promoting psychological literacy. Psychology Learning and Teaching. (In Press)
Fernandes-Jesus, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8868-1968, Graber, R., Harris, C. and Wilson, S. (2023) Community Psychology. In: Davy, Graham C., (ed.) Applied Psychology. 2nd ed. John Wiley, pp. 665-674
Garcia‐Jaramillo, Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9845-5016, Santos, Tânia R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4686-7489 and Fernandes-Jesus, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8868-1968 (2023) “Not wanting to see it is hypocrisy, it's denying what is obvious”: Far‐right discriminatory discourses mobilised as common sense. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology.
Perach, Rotem ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8647-4367, Fernandes-Jesus, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8868-1968, Miranda, Daniel, Mao, Guanlan, Ntontis, Evangelos, Cocking, Chris, McTague, Michael, Semlyen, Joanna and Drury, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7748-5128 (2023) Can group‐based strategies increase community resilience? Longitudinal predictors of sustained participation in Covid‐19 mutual aid and community support groups. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
Esposito, Francesca, Rebelo, Dora, Olanrewaju, Moshood, Vine, Megan, Fernandes-Jesus, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8868-1968, Bodden, Debi, Kalokoh, Aminata and Olson, Bradley (2023) A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the COVID‐19 syndemic. American Journal of Community Psychology.
Malafaia, Carla and Fernandes-Jesus, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8868-1968 (2023) Youth Climate Activism: Addressing research pitfalls and centring young people's voice. In: Carvalho, Anabela and Rai, Tarla, (eds.) Handbook of Environmental Communication. De Gruyter Mouton (In Press)
Fernandes-Jesus, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8868-1968, Malafaia, Carla, Ribeiro, Norberto and Menezes, Isabel (2014) Participation among youth, women, and migrants: findings from Portugal. In: Barret, Martyn and Zani, Bruna, (eds.) Political and civic engagement: Multidisciplinary perspectives. Routledge, pp. 311-333
Malafaia, Carla, Fernandes-Jesus, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8868-1968 and Luhtakallio, Eva (2022) Education and climate activism: Youth democratic practices and imaginations towards a common world. Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, 62. pp. 1-18.
Fernandes-Jesus, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8868-1968, Malafaia, Carla, Ferreira, Pedro D., Cicognani, Elvira and Menezes, Isabel (2012) The many faces of Hermes: The quality of participation experiences and political attitudes of migrant and non-migrant youth. Human Affairs: Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences Quarterly, 22 (3). pp. 434-447.
Fernandes-Jesus, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8868-1968, Cicognani, Elvira and Menezes, Isabel (2014) Civic and political participation: young people of Brazilian origin in Portugal. Psicologia & Sociedade, 26 (2). pp. 572-582.

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	Communities reclaiming power and social justice in the face of climate change	825	426
2	“Save the Climate! Stop the Oil”: Actual Protest Behavior and Core Framing Tasks in the Portuguese Climate Movement	257	133
3	Validation of the Drinking Motives Questionnaire – Revised in six European countries	189	103
4	Youth Climate Activism: Addressing research pitfalls and centring young people's voice	84	4
5	How participation in Covid-19 mutual aid groups affects subjective well-being and how political identity moderates these effects	32	20
6	More Than a COVID-19 Response: Sustaining Mutual Aid Groups During and Beyond the Pandemic	31	21
7	Community engagement in the Transition movement: views and practices in Portuguese initiatives	31	1
8	What have we learned about COVID-19 volunteering in the UK? A rapid review of the literature	29	15
9	Tracking the nature and trajectory of social support in Facebook mutual aid groups during the COVID-19 pandemic	26	39
10	Beyond the hindrances: experiences of public consultations and the possibility of ethics and relevance in participation	26	15