Ana Rita Conde Dias

Ana Rita Conde Dias serves as Assistant Professor at Lusófona University of Porto, teaching across the undergraduate Psychology program and Master's degrees in Clinical and Health Psychology and Justice Psychology. She concurrently holds the position of Deputy Director for the Justice Psychology Master's program, demonstrating active engagement in both academic instruction and program leadership within Portugal's higher education landscape.

Her educational foundation includes a

• Licenciatura (Bachelor) in Psychology (2000, University of Minho)
• Mestrado (Master) in Psychology (2007, University of Minho)
• Doutoramento (PhD) in Psychology of Justice (2012, University of Minho)

Conde Dias' research centers on forensic and clinical psychology with pronounced emphasis on victimology, particularly examining female victimization, prison violence, and domestic abuse through qualitative methodologies. Her work consistently integrates sociocultural analysis of gender dynamics and love discourses, while recent publications reveal strategic expansion into virtual reality applications for psychological training and inclusive tourism frameworks for neurodiverse populations. This evolution demonstrates methodological versatility spanning grounded theory, narrative analysis, and digital interventions.

Analysis of her 20 journal articles shows thematic progression from foundational studies on sociocultural representations of domestic violence (2007-2014) toward contemporary investigations of VR-based cognitive stimulation (2021-2023) and cross-cultural prison mental health (2019-2023), with Cape Verdean populations featuring prominently in recent empirical work. Her publications consistently employ qualitative frameworks while increasingly incorporating mixed-methods approaches in correctional and clinical settings.

She has received five unspecified academic honors recognizing contributions to victimology and forensic psychology, though specific award titles remain undisclosed in source materials.

Conde Dias actively supervises Master's theses examining judicial decision-making in domestic violence cases, childhood victimization in prison contexts, and juvenile delinquency life histories, with 13 thesis supervisions documented between 2017-2019. Her research program includes the VREthics VR simulator (2020), developed for the Portuguese Psychologists Association, indicating practical grant-funded applications of her theoretical work.

Her laboratory initiatives focus on virtual reality environments for ethics training and cognitive assessment, with recent collaborations extending into inclusive tourism applications for children with autism spectrum disorders through nautical tourism frameworks.