PhD in Social Sciences
Thesis: Paternalistic ageism in political speech: A rhetorical analysis of Chilean parliamentary debates on old age and older people. Funded by ANID Becas Chile.
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Thesis: Paternalistic ageism in political speech: A rhetorical analysis of Chilean parliamentary debates on old age and older people. Funded by ANID Becas Chile.
Thesis: Articuladores del discurso sobre la vejez en adultos mayores chilenos (with C. Melián). Matrícula de Honor 2008 and 2009, the annual distinction for the student with the highest marks in the cohort.
FAI Postdoctoral project on digital inclusion in later life: quantitative analysis of the relationship between communication and social infrastructure and the wellbeing of older people in Chile, with a focus on rural contexts.
School of Psychology and Bachelor's Programme in Psychology.
Organisational structures, compensation and workplace wellbeing using administrative payroll data from Chilean firms: scaling of hierarchies, predictive models of turnover and salary reference frameworks.
Psychometric validation of instruments with exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis in R; research on wellbeing, mental health and the quality of clinical teaching.
Research design, questionnaire design and psychometric validation, analysis and reporting.
Discourse analysis of mental health actors regarding the implementation of the GES Depression policy.
Studies on Basic Concepts in Psychological Theorizing: Memory, Thinking, Emotion. Principal investigator: Andrés Haye.
With Professor Alfredo Enrione.
End-to-end direction of healthcare market research, from design and sales through delivery and presentation of results. Quantitative and qualitative methodologies, client management and team leadership.
Design, coordination and analysis of mixed-methods research to identify the knowledge, skills and training needs of the target population, and development of large-scale e-learning programmes for workers and professionals.
Principal investigator. Awarded in 2025. Context Matters: Linking Meso-Level Digital Infrastructure and Social Resources to Older Adults' Wellbeing.
Instrument design and validation, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, measurement invariance, latent change models.
Structural equation models, multilevel and weighted multilevel models, within- and between-subject panel data, event studies, estimation with complex sample design, multiple imputation, penalised regression, compositional analysis, spatial analysis.
Rhetorical and discourse analysis, dialogical analysis, grounded theory and thematic analysis.
I design and operate an in-house AI-assisted research infrastructure, with agents that review and cross-check the work independently under the authors' direction. I apply it to my manuscripts and to literature reviews.
R, Python, Mplus, NVivo.
Spanish, native. English, academic level; PhD completed in the United Kingdom.