Sofia Persson

Background

About Sofia Persson

I am a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University. I joined Leeds Beckett University in 2019, having previously worked as a research associate at Manchester Metropolitan University. I was awarded my PhD in psychology from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2019. My research is focused on rape mythology and sexist beliefs. I am particularly interested in how these attitudes are scaffolded through scientific communication, for example through claims of hardwired differences between women and men's brains. I use a range of methodological approaches in my research, including meta-analysis, factor analysis, dyadic modelling, and mediation. I am the UKRN local network lead for Leeds Beckett University, and and I work to promote open science across the university. I am involved in several open science societies and projects, for example as the lead for the 'open science final year project', which implements the consortium framework to embed open science in pedagogy. I am the network lead for the Open Research and Scholarship network embedded within the Centre for Psychological Research. I am the section editor for the Methods and Open Practices Section of Social and Personality Psychology Compass. I am also on the organising committee of the Psychology of Women and Equalities Section (POWES) of the British Psychological Society. I am a fellow of Advance Higher Education. Book: https://tinyurl.com/9726310