Fitxa persona

Berta Chulvi Ferriols is a lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Valencia. She holds a PhD in Psychology from this university, with the dissertation Prejudice towards minorities: The case of the Roma people (2003), awarded with Highest Honors (Summa Cum Laude). She previously obtained a degree in Information Sciences from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (1991), which has shaped a research trajectory characterized by interdisciplinarity, building bridges between communication sciences, social psychology, and computer science. Between 2020 and 2024, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Pattern Recognition and Language Technology Research Center (PRHLT) of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, contributing a psychosocial perspective to artificial intelligence research projects. Since then, she has developed a research line based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) to analyze what different social actors say—and how they say it.

Her main research interests focus on the study of prejudice and symbolic constructions that hinder dialogue in situations of intergroup conflict, as well as on psychosocial processes that obstruct coexistence in plural societies, such as dogmatism and polarization. Her current interests also include political psychology oriented toward the construction of plural societies, and security and crime prevention policies grounded in respect for human rights.

She has been awarded one six-year research evaluation period (sexenio, 2018–2023) and has published more than fifteen articles in specialized journals, as well as book chapters. She has also participated in several research projects.

Regarding teaching, she began her academic career as an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Valencia in the 2009/2010 academic year, teaching in the Psychology degree. She currently holds a position as Assistant Lecturer since June 2025 (Maria Gòrry Programme). In 2022, she obtained national accreditations as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor from ANECA. She has taught a wide range of courses related to Social Psychology, accumulating over 2,000 teaching hours. She has also participated in two teaching innovation projects and has published teaching materials.