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Margarida Maria Ferreira Diogo Dias Pocinho

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Penteada University Campus , Floor 1, Office 1.101

http://comunidade.uma.pt/margaridapocinho/

mpocinho@staff.uma.pt

(+351) 291 705 278 / 5278

Biographical Notes

Professor at the University of Madeira, Faculty of Arts and Humanities; attended international advanced courses in music therapy at Université Paris V and U.S. culture and society as Fulbright Fellow at New York University, USA. She is a collaborator researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), evaluator of project fellowships - FCT; 3 books and a large number of papers in psychology and education; has supervised 57 M.A. and 15 Ph.D. dissertations. She is member of General Council of the University of Madeira.
She was Visiting Professor at University of Zielona Góra, Poland, and member of its Research Centre, the Connectivity Centre.
Currently, she is conducting research in Psychology of Tourism with a Project funding by ARDITI "Madeira tourist wellbeing" with the partnership of CIEO - CinTurs (future Research Centre of Tourism, Sustainability and Well-Being of University of Algarve), where she is an integrated researcher. She is also conducting research in the field of Positive Psychology and Creativity.

Publications

- How attachment based educational practices can contribute to reduce stigma at schools?, Pocinho, M. & Pereira, D., EJED-European Journal od Education, 2025, 8

- O desenho da figura humana na Ilha da Madeira/The Drawing of the Human Figure in Madeira Island: Evidence of Validity, Pocinho, M., Weschler, S., & Neves, G., Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 2025, 7

- The Experiences of Intimacy, Commitment and Passion Throughout Life: A Qualitative Study of Older Gay and Bisexual Men., Ribeiro-Gonçalves, J.A., Pocinho, M., Costa, P.A., Leal, I., Sexuality & Culture, 2025, 27

- Validação da Escala de Mobbing Docente: Análise Fatorial Exploratória e Confirmatória, Agrela, S., Pocinho, M., Sales, S., & Garcês, S., Revista Iberoamericana de Diagnóstico y Evaluacíon Psicológica, 76(2) Avaliação Psicológica, 2025, 12

- Conferência Internacional CultHera, Conferência Internacional CultHera, 2024

- Jornadas de Psicopedagogia: uma Escola para o Futuro, Jornadas de Psicopedagogia: uma Escola para o Futuro, 2024

- Mobbing/assédio psicológico: revisão sistemática da literatura de 2020 a 2023, Pocinho, M., & Passos, S., AICA Revista de Divulgação Científica, 18(1),, 2024, 9

- Senior Tourists? Well-being, Happiness, and Satisfaction with Life: A Systematic Literature Review., Câmara, E., Pocinho, M., Neves de Jesus, S., & Agapito, D., Journal of Tourism, Sustainability and Well-Being (JTSW), 12(2), 2024, 14

- 44th International Conference of the Stress, Trauma, Anxiety, and Resilience Society (STAR)?, 44th International Conference of the Stress, Trauma, Anxiety, and Resilience Society (STAR)?, 2023

- Meaningful experiences in tourism: A systematic review of psychological constructs., Câmara, E., Pocinho, M., Agapito, D., & Jesus, S.N., 1314-0817, European Journal of Tourism Research, 34, Article e3403., 2023

Academic Qualifications

- PhD in Educação, 2004, University of Madeira

- Master Degree in Ciências da Educação, 1996, Universidade de Coimbra/Fac. de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação

- Undergraduate Degree in Psicologia, 1992, Universidade de Coimbra/Fac. de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação