During his fellowship the fellow worked on the Social Representation of the computer among teenagers, on social justice and prejudice and on the far right group web sites at the ISCTE in Lisbon under the supervision of Prof. Jesuino.

At the ISCTE Luca Tateo collected additional bibliographical material, specifically related to the topic of computer mediated communication.

During his fellowship, the fellow attended the lectures of the post-graduated programme of the “Departemento de Psicologia Social e das organizaçoes” at the host University, and participated in a great number of seminars on a range of topics relevant to his subject, and which were also very relevant in preparing him for his subsequetnial professional activties such as his position since July 2002 as Director of the "Pre-okkupati",  Vocational Guidance and Job Help Service of the Municipality of Salerno (Italy);

 Prior to entering the Marie Curie Fellowship, he participated in the 6th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communication: ‘Social Representations Theory around the World’ (28 May – 3 June 2000, Rome Italy), and as a Marie Curie Fellow, he participated in the 7 th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communication. (3-10 June 2001 Rome), where he presented his research “The social representation of computer among teenagers” during a workshop session.  He also later participated in the 9th  International Summer School of the European PhD on Social Representations & Communication: " Communication Studies and Social Representations: a Theoretical and Metodological Dialogue through Research" (Colonna Castle, Genazzano, Rome, Italy, 7-16 June 2003)

Following the contacts he made at the ISCTE he was invited to give a lecture at the University of Porto on “Social Psychology of the Internet: the state of the art”. Since leaving the programme, the fellow has used the research he did at the host university during his fellowship to go on to give presentations at many conferences such as:

-Tateo L.(2005) La costruzione discorsiva dell’identità di gruppo per l’Estrema Destra su Internet: il modello della dual strategy. Sezione Psicologia Sociale, “Giornata Tematica: Psicologia Politica”, Perugia A.I.P. (9 September 2005)

-Tateo L. (2004) Struttura e contenuto delle relazioni nella comunicazione mediata da computer. XVIII Congresso AIP, sezione di Psicologia dello Sviluppo: Sciacca (AG) (21 September 2004)

-Tateo L.(2004) “Metodi di analisi per la comunicazione nei web-forum” Seminario metodologico Facoltà di Psicologia 2, Università La Sapienza, con il patrocinio dell’AIP, Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, (13-14 February 2004): Struttura delle relazioni e contenuto argomentativi dei messaggi nella comunicazione mediata da computer. 

-Tateo L.(2002) Dal folklore alla memoria collettiva. Aspetti psicosociali della cultura popolare, Convegno organizzato da ANCI Basilicata, Satriano di Lucania “U Romit: maschera europea” (13 August 2002):.

-Tateo L.(2001) La comunicazione mediata da computer nei processi di globalizzazione: nuova occasione o nuova esclusione?, Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana Sociologi “La costruzione europea e la riflessione sociologica” (Napoli 27-29 September 2001)

Tateo L. (2001) “…HAL IS YOUR PAL” The social representation of computer among teenagers” at the 9^th conference of Romanian Working Commission of Applied Linguistics (26-30 April 2001)

He has also developed numerous websites as a result of his computer studies.

He has also sinced produced many publications:

-Tateo L. (2005). The Italian extreme right on-line network. An exploratory study using Social network analysis and content analysis integrated approach in the study of  CMC and political groups. Journal of computer-mediated communication, 10, (5)

-Tateo L. (2004). Struttura delle relazioni e contenuto argomentativi dei messaggi nella comunicazione mediata da computer. Form@re  Newsletter per la formazione in rete, Erickson, 27. http://formare.erickson.it/archivio/maggio_04/6tateo.html

-Tateo L. (2002). Razzismo, conflitti tra gruppi e percezione della giustizia nella ricerca psicologica nordamericana. In  C. Serino, (a cura di), Diritti umani e pregiudizio. Riflessioni e strumenti per la società multietnica. Edizioni Unicopli, Milano, pag. 197-202

-Tateo L. (2002). L’impatto sociale della comunicazione mediata da computer: occasione o esclusione? In G. Mininni (a cura di), Virtuale.com. la parola spiazzata. Idelson-Gnocchi, Napoli, pag. 157-170

-Tateo L. (2002). Communication strategies of extreme right groups via the Internet. A preliminare research on Italian extreme right web sites.In AA.VV. Litura Psycholinguistica. Sema Publishing House, Sofia, pag. 154-163

-Tateo L. (2002). Nuova occasione o nuova esclusione? La CMC nei processi di globalizzazione: un punto di ista psico-sociale. In M. Morcellini, A. Pizzaleo (a cura di), Net sociology. Interazioni tra scienze sociali e internet. Guerini e Associati, Roma, pp.217-232

-Tateo L. (2002). La lotteria a Babilonia. Il rapporto mediaò-utenti-realtà nell’evoluzione delle teorie della comunicazione. In Noema Tecnologie e Società, www.noemalab.com/sections/ideas/ideas_articles/tateo_lotteria_babilonia.html

-Tateo L. (2001). Hal is your pal. The social representation of computer among teenagers. In T. Slama-Cazacu (Ed.), Human and Computer. Europolis Publishing House, Constantza (Romania), pp.256-275

-Tateo L. (2000). Le implicazioni psicologiche e sociali nella memoria del terremoto. In P. Romano (a cura di), La ricostruzione della memoria. Plectica, Salerno

-Tateo L. (1998). Giornalismo ed immigrazione. In Problemi dell’informazione, XXIII (2).

-Tateo A., Tateo L. (1996). Le terre del Gastaldo. Immagini del Vulture – Alto Bradano. Percorsi di Basilicata. New Applicated Arts Edizioni, Salerno.

-De Feudis A., Festa M., Pepe D., Tateo A., Tateo L. (1996). Eventi. Costumi e costumanze del Vulture – Alto Bradano. Terre di Basilicata. New Applicated Arts Edizioni, Salerno.

 During his fellowship at the host University, he not only benefited from the tutorship of Prof. J. Jesuino, but also worked with Prof. Jorge Vala. Following the ideas he exchanged with Prof. Vala, Luca Tateo wrote “Razzismo, conflitti tra gruppi e percezione della giustizia nella ricerca psicologica nordamericana”, a chapter to be published in a book edited by Carmen Serino.

Since his fellowship he has also produced many further articles on his subject published in Journals such as the Diritti umani e pregiudizio. Human and Computer, Journal of computer-mediated communication, La ricostruzione della memoria, Net sociology. Interazioni tra scienze sociali e internet, Newsletter per la formazione in rete, Erickson, Problemi dell’informazione, Riflessioni e strumenti per la società multietnica, Virtuale.com. la parola spiazzata, Litura Psycholinguistica. 

The experience he gained during his fellowship along with the opportunity of physical mobility and of working with his supervisor has helped him towards making the transition from Research Trainee to Academic status, and he now works at the Univeristy of Salerno, Italy.

During her fellowship dr. Livia Bruscaglioni worked on her PhD. thesis “Social representation and looking for a job: a study in the Italian context”, under the supervision of Prof. Pierre Vergès

During her stay at the University of Aix-en-Provence in co-operation with the Maison mediterranèenne de Science de l’Homme” the fellow:

§       carried out an in-depth study of the theoretical and methodological aspects related to the Central Nucleus Theory and its recent developments

§        studied the function of data analysis programs utilised by the methodology of Central nucleus approach

§       collected data for her PhD thesis (questionnaires and interviews)

§       analysed the data of the questionnaires collected, under the supervision of Professor Pierre Vergès  (by Evoc2000, Simi)

§       she collected additional bibliographical material related to the central nucleus Theory and to the subject of her thesis

§       by participating in a great number of the seminars (offered within the DEA programme of the  Laboratoire de psychologie sociale) she was able to gain knowledge on the Theory of Social Representations which is currently debated at the University of Aix en Provence.

At the host University she did not only benefit from the tutorship of Prof. P. Vergès, but also she exchanged ideas and received suggestions from Prof. J.C. Abric and C.  Flament. With the help of Professor Apostolidis she had the opportunity to get familiar with the content-analysis programme Alceste.

Prior to entering into the Marie Curie fellowship, the fellow had participated in the following International Summer Schools of the European PhD on Social Representations & Communication:

-4th Summer School on Social Representations and Communication "The Theory towards the Applications"

San Sebastian, Basque Country - Spain 20th-29th June 1998 5th-11th June 1999.

-5th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communication "Developing European Doctoral Training" Rome, Italy  5th-11th June 1999.

-6th International Summer School on "Social Representations and Communication" will be held in Rome, Italy 28th May-3rdJune 2000. "Social Representations Theory Around the World".

And during her fellowship she gave a presentation at the

7th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communication. “Social representation and looking for a job. A study in the italian context”. (3-10 June 2001 Rome)

She also participated in the

"5° Colloque des Jeunes Chercheurs en Psychologie Sociale" organised by ADRIPS & le Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale de l'Université d'Aix en Provence (13, 15, 15 June 2001).

During the three months of fellowship dr. Elena Bocci worked on her doctoral research  “Social Representations, Mass Communication and Psychology of Tourism” at the E.H.E.S.S. in Paris (France) under the supervision of the Prof. Serge Moscovici, director of the European Ph.D on S.R. and Communication.

At the E.H.E.S.S. she also collaborated with other researchers of the LPS (Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale)  exchanging methodological knowledge about different types of data analysis software developed on Social Sciences, in particular:

- the software ‘Prospéro’ version 6.0 for Windows (F. Chateauraynaud and J.P. Charriau);

-the package ‘Hudap’ (Hebrew University Data Analysis Package) based  on the methods  developed by Guttman which are widely used in social science  research.

In order to improve her theoretical and methodological training, she participated in a number of seminars at the EHESS. The poster she presented during the IX Congresso del Comitato Scientifico Nazionale “Psicologia e Turismo” Congresso Nazionale ARIPT, is the result of several research programes in which she is involved:

-        CNR 1998 &1999 Accessibility and tourism: analysis difficulties and methodologies (Research coordinator: Prof. Luigi Greco);

-        Murst – Faculty 60% 1999/2000 (University of Rome) Social attitudes and multimedia communication (Research coordinator: Prof. Annamaria de Rosa)

 However, the fellow has also proven to be very active, before, during and since her fellowship, having participated in a wide range of Conferences, including the I°, II°, III°, IV°, V°, VI°Congresso Nazionale della Sezione di Psicologia Sociale dell’AIP, between 1997 and 2004.  She has also participated in many International Conferences such as:

-De Rosa .A.S., Bocci E.  “S.R.”of” and “on” the Internet: the presuasive power of advertising through the world wide web”. 5ieme Conference Internationale sur les Representations Sociales (Montréal, 30 August- 02 September 2000).

-De Rosa, A.S.,” Bocci E., “E-branding strategies and development  of the e-commerce and tourism: the case of  italian tour operators” Applied  Business Research Conference (Puerto Vallarta, Mexico March 14-19, 2002).

-De Rosa, A.S., Bigazzi, S., Bocci E., (2001) Forget – Never Forget: emotional impact, iconic representational systems and social memory, in the  reconstruction  of the day  who  dramatically changed  the personal  and global risk perception Symposium organised  at the 13^th  General Meeting  of the  E.A.E.S.P. (San Sebastian, Spain June 26-29 2002): “ Social Memory  and emotional impact towards  traumatic collective  events: the 11 September 2001”.

-De Rosa A.S., Bigazzi, S., Bocci, E., “Re-thinking, feeling  and remembering  a unique dramatic event: 11 September, 2001. Iconic representations, emotional impact and construction of the social memory”. 6ème Conference sur les Representations Sociales,  (Stirling, 27 Aout-2 Septembre 2002).

During her stay at the host University, she also collected additional bibliographical material and worked on the finalization of proceedings of Congresses, she had attended earlier.

During her fellowship she participated in the 3^rd Summer School of Theory and Sociological Methodology held in Viterbo, 10-15 September 2001 and in the 7^th International School on Social Representation and Communication (3-10 June 2001 Rome), where she presented her research “S.R., E-commerce and Tourism” during a workshop session.  But she has also participated extensively in the events of the European PhD on Social Representations & Communication, both before and since the period her fellowship taking part in the following International Summer Schools and International Lab Meetings:

-5^th International Summer School “Developing European Doctoral Training”, Rome, 5^th-11^st June, 1999.

-6^th International Summer School “Social Representation Theory around the world”, Rome, 28^thMay-2^ndJune, 2000.

-Scuola Estiva Metodologica “Corso sui metodi qualitativi”, Bertinoro, 24^-  29 Luglio, 2000.

-Terza Scuola estiva di Teoria e Metodologia Sociologica, Viterbo, 10-15 Settembre 2001.

-8^th International Summer School "Communication: Media and Social Representations" - New Media: Nets and Internet (Colonna Castle, Genazzano - Rome - Italy, 1-9 June 2002).

-9th International Summer School "Communication: Media and Social Representations" – Communication studies and Social Representations (Colonna Castle, Genazzano - Rome - Italy, 7-16 June 2003).

-10th International Summer School on "Communication: Media, Social Interactions and Social Representations: Social influence and Communication in the new scenarios of the Information Society - Is it possible to change risk behaviour? " (Colonna Castle, Genazzano - Rome - Italy, 24th April - 3rd May 2004).

-1^st International Lab Meeting “Social Representations in Action and Construction in Media and Society” Rome, 22^nd –30^th January 2005.

-2^nd International Lab Meeting “Social Representations in Action and Construction in Media and Society” Image based research  methods for analysing representations in action in different cultural contexts. Rome, 29 ^th April  –07^th May  2005.

-3^rd  International Lab Meeting “Social Representations in Action and Construction in Media and Society” Applying  the Facet Theory and Statistical Analysis via Hudap software in Research on Social Representations:  Theoretical and methodological Computer Mediated Training Sessions”.  Rome, 2^nd   –10 ^th   June 2005.

As a result of having been so active in her research and conference participation, many of the papers she presented, have now been published:

-De Rosa A.S., Bocci E. “S.R. “di” e “su” Internet: la comunicazione tramite Internet”. Conferenza sulle Risorse Umane e sviluppo turistico: le nuove  competenze professionali in Europa (Catania, 20\23 Ottobre  2000).

-De Rosa A.S., Bocci E. “E-commerce e turismo: comprare pacchetti di viaggio su Internet o in agenzia?” Giornata di studio del Progetto coordinato dal CNR “Accessibilità e turismo: problemi e metodologie di analisi” (Villa di Basciano, Siena 17 Febbraio 2001).

-De Rosa A.S., Bocci E.”E-commerce e turismo: analisi del sito internet di un tour operator italiano”. IV° Congresso Nazionale della Sezione di Psicologia Sociale dell’AIP  (Palermo, 24\26 Settembre 2001).

-De Rosa A.S., Bocci E.“La comunicazione ‘mediata da’ Internet inerente al settore turistico” IX Congresso del Comitato Scientifico Nazionale “Psicologia e Turismo 1° Congresso Nazionale  ARIPT    , Bari, 27\30 September 2001.

-De Rosa A.S., Bocci E. (2002) “E-branding strategies and development  of the e-commerce and tourism: the case of  italian tour operators” International business & Economics Research Journal  Western Academic Press Inc. Vol. 1, Number 10 October 2002 pp. 11-24.

-De Rosa A.S., Bocci E.(2002)  “Sul potere persuasivo della comunicazione via Internet: E-commerce e turismo” Atti  del Valentini day “Orientamenti della ricerca  in Italia sullo sviluppo e l’adattamento psicosociale” Edizioni Kappa  2002 pp. 378-387.

-De Rosa, A.S., Bocci E., Saurini, S. (2005) “Risk perception as motivational resistance factor for on line purchasing”. In S. Zappla & C. Gray (eds) Impact of Ecommerce on Consumers and  Small Firms. Ashgate Hampshire, U.K. (in press)

She currently holds the position of Teaching Assistant in the Department of Psychology, University of Rome, “La Sapienza” and is in the process of completing her PhD thesis.

During her fellowship the fellow worked on the topic of her research: “ The Social Representation of Ecological Consumption in the Family”, at the University of Provence in Aix-en-Provence, under the supervision of Prof. Pierre Vergés.

At the University of Provence she collected additional bibliographical material, specifically related to the social representation and ecological consumption.  She also attended the seminar: Influences minoritaires et majoritaires sur une Representation Sociale by Prof. Claude Flament (29/6/2001)

Prior to beginning her fellowship she participated in the 6th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communication: "Social Representations Theory Around the World" which was held at the European Ph.D on Social Representations & Communication Research Centre & Multimedia Lab in Rome, Italy from 28th May-3^rd June 2000. 

During the period of her fellowship she went on to participate in the 7^th International School on Social Representations and Communication held in Rome from 3rd-10^th June 2001, where she presented her research “The Social Representation of Ecological Consumption in the Family” during a workshop session.

While at the host University she greatly benefited from the tutorship of Prof. Pierre Vergés, but also from the expertise of Prof. J. C. Abric, Prof. C. Flament and of a team of senior researchers. They all contributed in a very important way towards the construction of the questionnaire that will be applied to all members of the families of the sample of her research.

During her first period of fellowship, the fellow worked on the social representations of children’s relationships in fantasy and reality, at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (University of Cambridge) under the supervision of Prof. Gerard Duveen.  At the FSPS, Célia Soares collected extensive bibliographical material, specifically relavent to her topic of research and also to related topics (such as social, developmental and clinical psychology, sociology, etc.).

During her fellowship she revised her preliminary research project and developed a new line focused on “Stories of children’s relationships: understanding the construction of meanings about fantasy and reality”.

The fellow attended the lectures of the post-graduated programme of the host University, and participated in a large number of seminars, including a seminar of Prof. Robert Hinde about relationships open to doctoral and post-doctoral research trainees. She also conducted a pre-test of interviews in Lisbon during September, in order to develop the methodologies that are going to be applied in her research. This pre-test was developed with a group a Portuguese children between 6 and 9 years old.

During her fellowship she also had the opportunity to attend lectures of the post-graduated programme of Social Psychology in the FSPS including  - Thematical Seminars:. Representations and Identities (Prof. Gerard Duveen) - 12th, 19th and 26th of October, 2nd and 9th of November;. Psychoanalysis and Social Psychology: continuities and contradictions (Profs. Juliet Mitchell and G. Duveen) – 22nd, 29th of October, 5th, 12th and 19th of November;. Philosophical and Methodological issues in Psychological Research (Profs. G. Duveen, Nick Bayliss and Pedrinho Guarreschi) – 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th October, 6th, 13th, 20th of November, along with lectures of the undergraduated programme of Psychology in the FSPS:- Thematical Seminar:. Relationships (Prof. Robert Hinde) – 5th, 12th and 19th of November.

During the second period of fellowship, the fellow continued her research on children’s representations of social life and the construction of meanings about fantasy and reality under the supervision of Prof. Annamaria de Rosa (La Sapienza). The fellow’s work combines 3 studies that aim at exploring and interpreting the meanings that children construct about friendship and power in a school context. In Rome, the fellow mainly concentrated on methodological training, namely on the meta-analysis of bibliographic material on SR, and on the development of her third study (concerning the dimensions of power within a fantasy scenario). She also had the opportunity to collect bibliographical material, mainly on epistemological and methodological issues related to the SR Theory. She also took part in one seminar dedicated to a developmental systemic approach to children’s studies.

Prior to becoming a Marie Curie fellow, the fellow had been quite an active participant in the events of the European PhD on Social Representations & Communication, attending both the 5th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communication "Developing European Doctoral Training", Rome, Italy 5th-11th June 1999,  and the 6th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communication "Social Representations Theory Around the World" held in Rome, Italy 28th May-3rdJune 2000. During the period of her fellowship, she participated in the 7th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communication "Communication: Languages, Representations, Interactions" Rome, Italy 3th-10th June 2001, at which she presented her research project, “Children’s development and SR. A longitudinal approach” during a workshop session.

She also participated in International Conferences, presenting her research at the III JIRS (2-5 September 2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), where she presented 2 papers; and also in a National Symposium related to Psychology Research (16-18 October, 2003, Lisbon, Portugal), where she presented one paper related to her doctoral research. One of the papers presented at the III JIRS led to a publication in one book related to Theory and Practices on SR. Moreover, she was invited to conduct one seminar on Methodologies for data analysis, in a post-graduated program at the Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil, held on 11.09.2003. At the end of her fellowship, she started to organize an homage book to her Portuguese supervisor, Prof. J. Correia Jesuino, for the occasion of his retirement.

Since leaving the programme she has maintained her links with the European PhD on Social Representations & Communicaiton by taking part the events organised at the Research Centre and Multimedia Lab in Rome.  She attended the 9th  International Summer School of the European PhD on Social Representations & Communication " Communication Studies and Social Representations: a Theoretical and Metodological Dialogue through Research" held at Colonna Castle, Genazzano - Rome (ITALY), 7-16 June 2003, the 10th International Summer School of the European PhD on Social Representations & Communication entitled: Social influence and communication in the new scenarios of the information society. held at Colonna Castle, Genazzano – Rome (Italy) from 24th April -   3rd May 2004, and the 2nd International LAB Meeting - Spring Session 2005 - Social Representations in Action and Construction in Media and Society. "Image-Based Research Methods for Analysing Social Representations in action in different cultural contexts"at the European PhD on Social Representations & Communication Multimedia LAB & Research Center, Rome-Italy in combination with Worldwide on-line connection points, from 29th April to 8th May 2005.  She is now based at the I.S.C.T.E. in Lisbon, Portugal and is in the process of completing her PhD thesis.

During her fellowship the fellow worked on her PhD. thesis “One Morality or Multiple Moralities? Religious Ideology, Conceptions of Morality and Rule Systems among the Finnish Adolescents having Lutheran and Conservative Laestadian, and Nonreligious Affiliation.” During this time the fellow read articles and books related to her research field. Moreover, she completed the analysis of her interview data (Atlas.ti and SPSS). She wrote the manuscript for the doctoral dissertation that she submitted for the final pre-examination. She also participated in the 8th International Summer School of the European PhD on Social Representations & Communication "Communication, Media and Social Representations" New Media: Nets and Internet,  Colonna Castle, Genazzano - Rome (ITALY), 1-9 June 2002, where she gave a presentation of her research.

During the fellowship she participated in ‘The Methodology Course on SPAD Correspondence Analysis’. December 2001 – January 2002, organized by the Dept. of Social Psychology, “La Sapienza”, a course that dealt with the correspondence analysis done with the SPAD program, led by dott. Elena Bocci.  She also participated in the international seminar dealing with the socio-psychological implications of the attacks in the USA on 11th September, held on 21th of December 2001, by Richard Mollica, from the University of Harvard (Boston, USA).  Both courses were organized by the Dept. of Social Psychology of the University of “La Sapienza”.  Moreover, she participated in the seminar, organised by Prof. de Rosa, on “11th September 2001:emotional impact, iconic representational systems and social memory, in the reconstruction of the day which dramatically changed the personal and global risk perception” (October – November 2001). During her stay in Italy she also improved her linguistic skills and she currently has moderate Italian language skills, besides good English, moderate Russian and Swedish.

Before becoming a Marie Curie Fellow, the fellow had already demonstrated her interest by taking part in the 5th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communication "Developing European Doctoral Training" Rome, Italy. 5th-11th June 1999, as well as the 7th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communication "Communication: Languages, Representations, Interactions" Rome, Italy, 3th-10th June 2001.  She continued to show the same enthusiasm in the events organised by the European PhD on S.R. & Com after the period she spent at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” by continuing to be an active participant in events, and taking part in the 9th International Summer School of the European PhD on  Social Representations & Communication" Communication Studies and Social Representations: a Theoretical and Metodological Dialogue through Research" Colonna Castle, Genazzano - Rome (ITALY), 7-16 June 2003

The fellow’s period as Marie Curie Fellow enabled her to gain extensive experience both in research and also in international academic events and conferences, while also enabling her physical mobility.  This experience appears to have been thoroughly worthwhile as she has now completed her European PhD thesis,

Vainio A. (2003) “One Morality or Multiple Moralities? Religious Ideology, Conceptions of Morality and Rule Systems among the Finnish Adolescents having Lutheran and Conservative Laestadian, and Nonreligious Affiliation”, published by the Department of Social Psychology, University of Helsinki in 2003,

She has made the transition from Research Trainee to achieving Academic Status in the position of Dc.Soc.Sc. Researcher in the Department of Social Psychology, at the University of Helsinki.

During her fellowship the fellow worked under the direction of Prof. Elisabeth Lage at the Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.  While there, the fellow was able to make use of the main library at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, and also the extensive specialist library on social representations held by the Laboratoire itself.  A literature search in these two locations revealed numerous key texts in French which she had not been able to locate in the United Kingdom.  Therefore the fellowship proved to be crucial to her research.  Additionally, the fellow was able to read several PhD theses on topics closely related to her own area of interest that were either written at, or examined in the Laboratoire.

During her three-month stay Juliet Foster was able to attend two courses of relevant seminars both held in the EHESS.  The first, led by M. Gaudillière and Mme Davoine was entitled ‘Folie et lien social’; the second, which was organised by M. Dodier, considered questions of political change and user involvement in the health services. Furthermore, the fellow was able to attend a part of the conference organised at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme on Representation and Belief.  One of the most profitable parts of her stay was the opportunity for formal and informal discussion with other researchers in the field at the Laboratoire, both those with more experience and those closer to her own generation.  In particular she benefited from the direction of Prof. Lage, and also had the opportunity to discuss her work with Prof. Denise Jodelet, one of the most prominent contributors to work on social representations of mental illness.

Before becoming a Marie Curie Fellow, she had take part in the 5th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communication "Developing European Doctoral Training" Rome, Italy, 5th-11th June 1999.  During her fellowship period, she also had the opportunity to participate in “Le pouvoir des croyances / The Power of Beliefs. Psychologie sociale, représentations sociales et phénomènes de croyance :Voies empiriques et questions épistémologiques” (organized by:T. Apostolidis (Université de Provence), G. Duveen (University of Cambridge), N. Kalampalikis (LPS-EHESS) –13 & 14 December 2001, Paris.

As a result of her stay in Paris the fellow was able to complete her PhD thesis, entitled ‘The social representations of mental illness held by clients of the mental health services’, which she submitted to Cambridge University on her return in January 2002.  Since her period as fellow, she has proceeded to do participate in international events such as chairing the session ‘Transformations in Social Knowledge’ at the Fifth Inter-University Graduate Conference on Social Psychology, held at the University of Cambridge, 22^nd May, 2004.

She has also made the transition to academic status thanks to her experience and the opportunities for physical mobility and research facilities that she enjoyed during her fellowship, and she now holds the position of College Research Fellow in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.

The fellow has since submitted papers to various journals on the subjects discussed in her thesis, based on ideas which she developed while in Paris, and presented the paper:

‘Beyond Otherness: controllability and location in mental health service clients’ representations of mental health problems’, at the Sixth Conference on Social Representations “Thinking Societies: Common Sense and Communication” (Stirling, UK, August 2002)

During his fellowship the fellow worked on the Social representations of organisational change at the ISCTE in Lisbon under the supervision of Prof. Jesuino.  At the ISCTE Daniele dell’Erba collected additional bibliographical material, specifically related to the topic of Social Representation Theory and Organsitanional Change Management.

As Marie Curie Fellow, he participated in the 7th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communication. (3-10 June 2001 Rome), and presented a detailed outline of his research project “Social Representations and Change Management” during a workshop session.

The fellow made extensive use of the excellent research facilities both at the ISCTE and at INDEG and has kept in close contact with Prof. Jesuino of the post-graduated programme of the “Departemento de Psicologia Social e das organizaçoes” of the host University.

The fellow issued the 41 page “A Dialogue on Change; When Social Representation Theory meets Change Management” to discuss how Social Representations Theory might be applied to the field of change management. He has also kept a record of his progress by means of detailed Project Status Updates to reflect the development of his thinking and the contents of the regular meetings with Prof. Jesuino, his scientific coordinator.  Leveraging the contacts throughout Europe with a major management consulting firm he gathered an extensive set of case studies and other research material for use in the subsequent phases of his project.

The fellow issued the 47 page ‘Managing Unpredictability.  Beyond Change Management: Improvisational Performance in the Team-Based Learning Organisation’. During his stay in Portugal he managed to get involved in the planning and management of an e-business startup (iberatlantico, inc.). He leveraged this practical experience to create a case study to test his theoretical approach as desribed in  Phase III plan (outlined in the ‘Summary and Phase III scope’ presentation).

He was also directly involved  in a case study on a large transformational project based in the UK prior to becoming a Fellow.

The fellow also started a research work-package involving 15 semi-structured interviews with senior managers and change practitioners in different sectors to gain their perspective on how companies begin and successfully complete change based on Kotter’s and Cohen’s Change Assessment methodology (http://www.theheartofchange.com).

The output of this research work will provide the Fellow, as planned, with the necessary components to finalise his thesis.  During his time as fellow he reached proficiency in Portuguese.

At the host University he did not only benefit from the tutorship of Prof. J. Jesuino, but also from personal contact with Portuguese professionals, primarily lawyers, investment bankers and journalists to improve his understanding of portuguese culture and language and, in doing so, laying the foundation work for a possible comparative analysis across different European working cultures and their impacts on the acceptance of change.

After his fellowship he continued to take part in events related to his subject and participated in the 8th International Summer School of the European PhD on Social Representations & Communication "Communication, Media and Social Representations" New Media: Nets and Internet, Colonna Castle, Genazzano - Rome (ITALY), 1-9 June 2002

During her first period of fellowship, Alessandra Dal Secco worked on her research “Social Representations of domestic violence by the Police and the National Health Service”, at the Department of Social Psychology, University of Helsinki, under the supervision of Prof. Klaus Helkama. At a macro level of analysis, the fellow’s study explores the impact of recent cultural, social and political international changes related to gender-based violence on the national policy and legislative moves. At a micro level, her work looks at the dynamics of the social meanings and usages that violence against women undertakes for different government actors as well as at the range of social practices elicited by these discourses. More precisely, this research will examine two key state institutions differently dealing with the problem of domestic violence against women, the Police and the National Health Service, in order to shed light on their mutating representations, practices and policy solutions. On such premises, the interaction between the symbolic constructs and institutional practices will be explored.

At the University of Helsinki, the fellow collected bibliographic material, especially on theoretical women in feminist analysis, and on pre-existing research concerning the Police and the National Health Service.

As a post-graduate research trainee, the fellow attended Seminars on Social Representations at the Department issues on the social representations theory, on the concept of violence against of Social Psychology of the University of Helsinki, held by Visiting Scholars: Dr Christian Staerkle from the University of Geneva; Prof. Elisabeth Lage from EHESS, France and Prof. Patrick Jakubowicz from the University of Paris-sud.

As a European Ph.D. research trainee, she participated in the Research Course on “Welfare, Equality, Sexuality and Violence” in Tampere (25^th-27^th January 2002), organised by the ‘Nordic Network on Violences, Agency Practices and Social Change”. In this context, the fellow presented the paper of her research project on Social Representations.

The fellow presented her project, “Social Representations of domestic violence by the Police and the National Health Service”, at the Seminar Group of the Social Psychology Department at the University of Helsinki. The presentation of her research was followed by a very useful discussion, which stressed on the project’s potential and constraint.

During her staying, the fellow was not only supported by Prof. Helkama, but also by Dr. Liisa Husu (Department of Social Psychology, University of Helsinki) and Dr. Suvi Ronkainen (Department of Women Studies, University of Tampere), both experts on gender issues.

Furthermore, in order to strengthen her knowledge on the Finnish context regarding gender-based violence, she contacted institutional experts in the field. She conducted interviews with representatives of Stakes, Health Ministry of Social Affairs, as well as of the Ministry of the Interior. In particular, she got in touch with Leena Ruusuvuori, the person responsible for the Social Research –Violence against women and Prostitution, STAKES- National Research and Development Centre for Welfare, and Mikko Lampikovski, Chief Superintendent, responsible for the Police Department. Both of these institutions, dealing with gender-based violence, are integrating new programmes aiming to improve the institutional response to this phenomenon: STAKES develops public awareness-raising campaign promoting information and education, whereas the Police Department of Ministry of Interior implement training courses for Police officers and group discussion.

Moreover, the fellow worked on her research, focusing on the theoretical framework as well as the elaboration of data and results, in order to present her project’s initial conclusions at the European Ph.D. International Summer School, as well as the International Conference of Social Representations in Stirling.

Before her fellowship period she took part in the 7th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communication "Communication: Languages, Representations, Interactions" Rome, Italy 3th-10th June 2001

She thus participated in the 8^th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communications “Media: Nets and Internet” (1-10 June 2002, Rome - Genazzano Castle) where she gave a presentation of her research: “Institutions' Social Representations of Domestic Violence”.

In August 2002, she participated in the 6^th International Conference on Social Representations “Thinking Societies: Common Sense and Communication”- University of Stirling, 27^th August- 1^st September 2002. She presented a paper on “Institutions’ social representations of violence against women: a pilot study in the Italian Police, Social Services and Women’s Shelter”.

Following her fellowship she subsequently maintained her links with the European PhD on S. R. & C. structure by attending 9th International Summer School of the European PhD on  Social Representations & Communication

" Communication Studies and Social Representations: a Theoretical and Metodological Dialogue through Research" Colonna Castle, Genazzano - Rome (ITALY), 7-16 June 2003, and the 2nd International LAB Meeting - Spring Session 2005: Social Representations in Action and Construction in Media and Society "Image-Based Research Methods for Analysing Social Representations in action in different cultural contexts"at the European PhD on Social Representations & Communication Multimedia LAB & Research Center, Rome-Italy in combination with Worldwide on-line connection points from 29th April to 8th May 2005.

During her second period of fellowship, Alessandra Dal Secco worked on research topic under the supervision of Prof. Ligia Amancio (ISCTE).  The supportive environment and stimulating work atmosphere at the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE) enabled the fellow to build a more thorough theoretical framework to pursue her research project as well as structuring a detailed plan of research, on which grounding the following stage of data collection. In particular, the six months in Portugal were used to collect international bibliographic material to expand theoretical foundations of her research project – mostly concerning social representations theory, social representations of gender, gender issues, notions of democracy and citizenships in contemporary western States, institutional approaches. Likewise, on the basis of relevant international bibliographic material collected, she worked on and refined the qualitative and quantitative methodological aspects, ultimately serving to develop the methodological plan and start collecting data in Italy.

She benefited greatly from the stimulating environment of the Department of Social Psychology, where weekly meeting and seminars were held. She took part in a great number of seminars and workshops, some of them including productive discussion about other doctoral research trainees’ research projects –many of which strongly related to issues of social representations of gender - while others offering advanced methodological training, such as the two-days Advanced Seminar of Research Methodology on “Técnica de Anàlise Multiniveis” held by Prof. Vicente Gonzàles-Roma, Universidade de Valencia (02-03 June 05, ISCTE). Moreover, she attended a number of seminars held by international invited speakers, among which the seminar on La pensée sociale à la lumière de l’Affaire Dreyfuss held by Prof. Elisabeth Lage, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (06 May 2005). As Marie Curie Fellow, she participated from ISCTE in the 2^nd International Lab Meeting in Rome from 29^th April to 8^th May 2005. She also took part in the second section of the Forty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women taking place from the 28 February-11 March 2005 in New York, at the Economic Council of the United Nations Organisation. Moreover, she attended the Encontro Género e Polìtica, organised by Nucleo de Estudos de Ciencia Polìtica e Relaçoes Internacionais, Faces de Eva- Centro de Estudo sobre a Mulher, FCSH/UNL, held at the Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas on the 19-20 May 2005.  She is currently in the process of completing her PhD Thesis.

During her fellowship, Elena Morales worked on her PhD thesis : « "Social Representation  of the victims of prejudice and discrimination", At the Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale at the EHESS, under the supervision of Prof. Lage, she has been researching the Social Representation of immigration from the view point of both Latin American immigrants and the Spanish press. Following the advice of Prof. Lage she introduced the concept of Social Memory as a new perspective in the analysis of her data, as well as in the comprehension of the global problem. With the help of Prof. Lage, she further developed the methodological approach of her research by concentrating her sample, and by designing a multi-method approach that satisfies the needs of this project. This multi-method approach involves the following parts:

·       Qualitative exploration: interviews. The fellow will realize between 30 and 50 interviews to investigate the character of categories and attributed stereotypes. These interviews will help her to investigate the familiar history of the immigrants, their migration plan and, their satisfaction of life.

·       Quantitative: questionnaire. The fellow is going to collect 200 questionnaires with socio-demographic data, population variables, level of religious involvement and indices of direct contact with host population. She will also attempt to investigate their perception of their problems, their perception of the discrimination and the resources used.

·       Qualitative validation: revision of interviews for getting a more complete picture, by clarifying confused questions and problems of understanding.

·       Quantitative: content analysis of the press. The fellow would like to study two journals of different political influence in Spain such as "El País" (left) and "El Mundo" (right). She finds it valuable to do a quantitative analysis of headlines concerning immigration from 1999 to 2002 to demonstrate elements of social control and identify particular ideologies.

 At the LPS the fellow had the opportunity to use two valuables tools for the analysis of qualitative data, which are the programs Alceste and Prospero. These programs are of vital importance as tools for her research.

At the library of "La Maison des Sciences de l'Homme" and the "Laboratoire de Psycologie Sociale" the fellow had the opportunity to collect additional bibliographical material, specifically related to the topic of Social Representation, social exclusion and social memory. She also took the opportunity to attend courses at the of the DEA at the “Laboratoire de Psycologie Sociale de l' EHESS” including: ”The asymetric symbolic model” by prof. Ligia Amancio, “The homogeneity of the group” by prof. Lorenzo-Cioldi  and a lecture of the Department of Social Psychology at Paris V: “Emotion et sentiment” by prof. J.P. Leyens

 Before her period as Marie Curie Fellow, the fellow had participated in the 7th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communication "Communication: Languages, Representations, Interactions" (Rome, Italy 3th-10th June 2001).  During her fellowship she participated in the 8^th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communication in Rome (June 1- 10, 2001) where she presented the results of her research as part of a workshop. Moreover, she presented the paper “Social Representations of the victims of prejudice and racism” at the XIII General Meeting of the EAESP (in San Sebastian, Spain, 26-29 June 2002) and at the 6^th International Conference on Social Representations and Communication “Thinking Societies: Common Sense and Communication” (August 27^th –September 1^st, 2002).

 She has also continued to participate in meetings and congresses at an international level including:

- Rodríguez-Bailón, R., Moya, M. & Morales-Marente, E.  “The strategies of the illegitimate powerful individuals: Social perception and judgemental effects of the illegitimate power”. 13th General Meeting de la European Asociation of Experimental and Social Psychology (EAESP) June, 2002, San Sebastián.

- Morales-Marente, E., Rodríguez-Bailón, R. & Moya, M. “Relaciones de género: ¿relaciones de poder?” V Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psicología Experimental (SEPEX). 25-27 March, 2004, Madrid.

- Morales- Marente, E., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., Moya. M. & Pratto, F. “The bases and dynamics of power in marriages”. Twenty-Eighth Annual Scientific Meeting de International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP): “Political Psychology. Facing the Real World”. 3-6 July, 2005, Toronto (Canadá).

 She has also presented Posters at international level:

-Rosa Rodríguez-Bailón, Vincent Yzerbyt, Miguel Moya & Elena Morales. “Legitimate and Illegitimate Power: Its Impact of Social Perception and Evaluation”. BPS Meeting, 5 March, 2004, Brussels, (Belgium).

-Elena Morales Marente, Francisca Expósito Jiménez & Rosa Rodríguez-Bailón. “How do people explain violence against women? A content analysis of focus groups using the gendered power model”. IX European Congress of Psychology, 3-8 July, 2005, Granada. Organized by: Consejo General de Colegios Oficiales de Psicólogos & European Federation of Psychologists’ Association (EFPA). ---

-Morales-Marente, E., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., Moya, M. & Pratto, F. “Identifying gendered power in married couples”. European Association of Experimental and Social Psychology (EAESP) 14th General Meeting, 19-23 Julio, 2005, Wüzburg, (Germany).

 Since completing her period of fellowship, she has published in leading journals in her subject such as the Encuentros en Psicología Social and Revista de Psicología social.  She has also contributed in books such as:

 -Calvo, L.J., Martín, J. Gutierrez, F., Romero, M.A., Morales, E., Machado, I., Sánchez, F. & Marín, R.M. (2002). Los Cuentos Jugados. Granada: Eds. Adhara (ISBN: 84-8144-250-X). 150 pp.

-Rosa Rodríguez Bailón & Elena Morales Marente (2005). Procesos grupales. In F. Expósito & M. Moya (Eds.), Aplicando la Psicología Social (pp. 173-198). Madrid: Pirámide. ISBN: 84-368-1948-9.

-Elena Morales Marente (2005). Psicología e Inmigración. In F. Expósito y M. Moya (Eds.), Aplicando la Psicología Social (pp. 389-391). Madrid: Pirámide. ISBN: 84-368-1948-9.

-Morales-Marente, E. & Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2005) Estudio sobre la desigualdad de poder de género en parejas heterosexuales. In Sobral Fernández, J., Serrano Martínez, G. y Regueiro Sande, J. (Comps.) “Psicología Social y problemas sociales: Psicología jurídica, de la violencia y de género” Vol. 3, pp. 395-402.

Alexandra Steinberg, as part of her Ph.D. thesis at the London School of Economics, UK, spent six months as a Marie Curie research fellow in the Mediterranean Laboratory for Sociology (LAMES) of the University of the Provence (C.N.R.S.) in Aix-en-Provence, France. The research fellowship was taken under the supervision of Pierre Vergès, director of the Mediterranean Laboratory for Sociology.

 During her fellowship, Alexandra Steinberg conducted research on the theme of her PhD thesis  "The impact of the dotcom crash on the changing sense-making of success and decision-making amongst e-entrepreneurs". In the initial phase of her stay at the LAMES, Ms Steinberg completed two chapters for her Upgrading Examination and Viva at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Existing data gathered from e-entrepreneurs in London was analysed for the cognitive structure of representations. An adequate and pertinent analysis of the data was possible thanks to the software developed for this purpose by Prof. Vergès. Specifically, Ms Steinberg developed a questionnaire that was used in the second stage of fieldwork of her PhD thesis in London.

 The fellow also gathered bibliographical information on the cognitive organisation of social meaning systems of economic concepts. In her overall social psychological approach, the cognitive level complemented her first part of the analysis  which covered the social level of interpretation of social representations. In her further research Ms Steinberg  has conducted an analysis of the cognitive organisation of the social themes she had found in the first phase of her fieldwork. Again here Ms Steinberg benefited from the experience and research conducted by Pierre Vergès. An additional methodological chapter on the second phase of fieldwork, as well as another theoretical chapter, have been written that will both form part of her PhD thesis,

 Discussions with Pierre Vergès contributed to the clarification and development of the ideas that Ms Steinberg argues in her research. Exchange of ideas with Pierre Vergès highly enriched the fellow’s scientific approach particularly towards the balancing of her overall qualitative research methodology with a quantitative one.

 The fellow participated at the 8^th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communications (1-9 June 2002, Rome - Genazzano Castle) “Towards understanding organisational decision-making amongst knowledge professionals: re-thinking business communities” (title of the presentation) and the 9^th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communications (9-16 June 2003, Rome - Genazzano Castle) « On 'Community-expertise' in E-entrepreneurship » (title of the presentation).  These presentations were based on the results of her fieldwork. Moreover, she presented her work at the IFIP (International Federation of Information Processing) Workgroup 8.3 workshop of the International Federation of Information Processing as a case study of Decision Making and Decision Support on 28^th and 29^th April 2003 in Paris, France. She was invited to present her work at the 11^th European Congress on Work and Organizational Psychology, 14-17 May 2003, Lisbon, Portugal.

 The fellow benefited of the meta-theoretical analysis of bibliographic material in her own subject area, through an on-line database held at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy, under the direction of Prof. Annamaria Silvana de Rosa.  The fellow also used the opportunity of the fellowship well in making considerable progress in her proficiency in French and is now on an intermediate level in both spoken and written French.

During her fellowship Tina Nebe worked on the Social Representations of the Immigrant ‘Other’ held by adolescents in Eastern Germany and Southern Spain under the supervision of Prof. Elisabeth Lage (EHESS). The fellow’s work combines two case studies that aim at exploring and interpreting the common sense images of ‘the immigrant’ as they are held by secondary school research trainees along the external frontiers of the present-day European Union. While in Paris, the fellow concentrated mainly on methodological training (both quantitative and qualitative) and on the analysis of previously collected data (Focus Groups, Questionnaires and Associative Networks). The supportive and stimulating work atmosphere at the Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale (LPS) enabled the fellow to analyse and interpret the bulk of qualitative data and present it to her colleagues and the interested public in a formal presentation (28 February 2003) as well as to make good progress on the quantitative data in the spring and summer months.

In addition, the fellow used her year in Paris productively to collect bibliographical material, above all on identity/social positioning and on inter-group relations, to tutor undergraduate ‘interns’ at the LPS in quantitative methodology. She took part in a great number of seminars and workshops, from which several offered advanced methodological training, like the Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection, organized by the University of Essex.

Additionally, she followed two weekly seminars at the EHESS, on Quantitative Methods (Prof. Forsé) and on ‘Modèles et recherches dans le champ des représentations sociales’ (Profs. Lage and Rouquette), and helped to set up two Ateliers (working groups) for doctoral research trainees, on Political Psychology and on ‘Analyse des données appliquée aux représentations sociales’ respectively.

Prior to becoming fellow she participated in the 6th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communication "Social Representations Theory Around the World” held in Rome, Italy 28th May-3rdJune 2000, and also in the 7th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communication "Communication: Languages, Representations, Interactions" Rome, Italy 3th-10th June 2001.

As Marie Curie Fellow, she continued to participate in these events: in the 8^th International Summer School on Social Representation and Communication (1-9 June 2002, Rome), in the 9^th International Summer School on Social Representation and Communication (7-16 June 2003, Rome) where she presented her research, and she also participated in the 6th International Conference on Social Representations “Thinking Societies: Common Sense and Communication” (27th august – 1th september 2002, Stirling, Scotland).

Moreover, she was invited to present her research on “Hybrid Identities or a Mental ‘Fortress Europe’?” at the conference “Whither Europe? Borders, Boundaries, Frontiers in a Changing World” held on 16/17.01.2003 at Göteborg University that led to a publication, in a special issue of Research on European Issues:

Nebe, T.M. (2003) “Hybrid Identities or a Mental 'Fortress Europe'? Social Psychological Insights into Representations of  Selfhood and Otherness held by Adolescents along the External Borders of the EU-15" in Andrén, Mats (Ed.) Whither Europe? Migration, Citizenship and Identity. (2003) Centre for European Research at Göteborg University: Göteborg, Sweden.

The fellow also submitted an article which was published on-line in 2003: Nebe, T.M. « Le rôle de l'altérité dans les processus de re-présentation et identification sociale » in Journal international des représentations sociales, vol.1 / no.1 / September 2003). http://www.unites.uqam.ca/geirso/   frameset/publications.html

As research trainee enrolled in the European PhD on SR & C, she participated in the Forum Discussion on the Euro PhD website, and introduced some bibliographic references in the database on SR literature.

Fellow

Name:  Thalia MAGIOGLOU

N°: 23

N°. months covered by report: 12

During her fellowship, Thalia Magioglou finished the first draft of her PhD; she also further developped the group of Political Psychology she has initiated at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris, in 2002, (EPoPs), by creating contacts with scolars and doctoral research trainees at Cambridge University. She participated in seminars and activities of this group both at Cambridge and Paris. She planned with her colleagues a symposium for June 2004.

Her research concerns “The Social Representations of Democracy between Imaginary and Reality. A qualitative study with young people in Greece” and during her fellowship, she has been hosted by the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Prof. Duveen. More particularly, she focused on theoritical work related to the concept of “social creativity”, and a narrative analysis of her interviews that illustrates the social creativity of common sens in the case of democracy.

In addition, Thalia Magioglou dedicated herself to bibliographical research and discussed her research with Gerard Duveen, the scientist in charge at the host institution. She presented her research project to the working group on social representations, lead by Prof. Duveen and Juliet Foster (February 2003). The supportive and stimulating work atmosphere at Cambridge and the encouragement of Prof. Duveen enabled her to make great progress during the period of the fellowship.

As Marie Curie Fellow, she participated in the 9^th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communication (7-16 June 2003, Rome), where she presented her research and made contacts with several professors and collegues such as Prof. Valsiner who invited her to submit an article in the journal “Culture and Psychology”.

She also participated in the following conferences:

Magioglou T. (2003) Fourth Inter-University Graduate Conference on Social Psychology, “Ways to think about democracy in Greece : Binary thinking versus consensual thinking. A study on the representation of democracy for young Greeks”. (Cambridge University, 10 May 2003).

Magioglou, T. (2003) 1st LSE PhD Symposium on Modern Greece:  "Current Social Science Research on Greece" 

,Social Representations of Democracy; Ideal versus Reality  (LSE, June 21, 2003).

Furthermore, she published:

Magioglou T. « The theory of Enablement and Social Representations as Contributions to “Societal” Political Psychology. Some thoughts on Valsiner (2003) and Wagner (2003)» in Papers on Social Representations, vol. 12, in 2003. (www.psr.jku.at/PSR2003/12_11Mag.pdf).  

She continues her research at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris.

During her fellowship Orsolya Vincze worked on collective memory of negative historical events and the effects of group membership on the transmission of negative historical events under the supervision of Prof. José Valencia and Prof. Dario Paez. The fellow repeated the study of Dario Paez and José Marques with Hungarian sample that aims at exploring and interpreting how in-group vs. out-group target - in a text of a negative historical event - and its in-group vs. out-group source affect the evaluation and recall a collective historical event. The fellow also extended the study of Pennebaker, Paez, Bellelli on the most important historical events of the last 1000 years with Hungarian sample. Furthermore, she was invited to collaborate in the drafting of a chapter (edited by O. Luminet et al.) with Dario Paez, Jose Valencia and János László on the theoretical and empirical part of the collective memory of negative historical events.

In addition, Orsolya Vincze collected bibliographical material on collective memory and its relation with social representation. She took part in seminars and workshops, during which she got a significant theoretical and methodological support from her tutors and the other Ph.D. research trainees. Among the various workshops she took part in a weekly seminar,  “Cuestiones especiales de psicología social” and in the “Workshop on collective memory of historical events” by Dario Paez

As Marie Curie fellow, she actively participated in the 9th International Summer School on Social Representation and Communication (7-16 June 2003, Rome) with the presentation “Narrative, Identity, Social Representation; Narrative Organisation of National Identity in Successful Historical Novels”.  She also took part in the Small Group Meeting Aix-en Provance, June 16-19 2004 – Dario Paez, Jose Valencia and Orsolya Vincze: Collective memory and social identity; the memories and histories of Spanish Civil War.

After the period of the fellowship she maintained her contact with the EuroPhD training structure by participating in the 10th International Summer School of the European PhD on Social Representations & Communication entitled ‘Social influence and communicationin the new scenarios of the information society’ at Colonna Castle, Genazzano – Rome (Italy), 24th April -   3rd May 2004 with a presentation entitled: “Narrative, Identity, Representation. Narrative Organization of national identity in successful historical novels.”

She also produced the follwing publications over the course of her fellowship: 

Paez, Marques, Valencia, Vincze:  Dealing with Collective Shame and Guilt: Effects of Group Membership on the Transmission of Negative Historical Events (2004).  Pennebaker, Paez, Bellelli (in collaboration with Vincze, Yogo, Lee, Rimé, Deschamps): The Social Psychology of History:  Defining the Most Important Events of the Last 10, 100, and 1000 Years (2004).

She is currently continuing her research at the Universityof Pécs, Hungary.