Prof. Marta Alves from the University of Beira Interior in Portugal on “Definition, operationalization and measure of group-level constructs. The construction of the workgroup socio-affective interdependence scale (WSAIS)”; and “Social network analysis”

Prof. Marta Alves from the University of Beira Interior in Portugal also a professor at the Erasmus Mundus Masters in Coimbra. Gave two seminars on Teamwork, scale´s validation at the collective level, and Social Network Analysis. In addition, she worked on the research project “The incidence of subgroups and emotional competencies in the welfare and performance of virtual teams” (VITEM) with Virginia Orengo and Ana Zornoza as MIs.

Session 1: May 23: “Definition, operationalization and measure of group-level constructs. The construction of the workgroup socio-affective interdependence scale (WSAIS).”

Session 2: May 25: “The social network analysis as a methodology of assessing interdependence relations in workgroups/teams.”

CV: Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology and Education of University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal. Coordinator of Master of Clinical and Health Psychology at University of Beira Interior between 2013 and 2015. Director of Department of Psychology and Education (University of Beira Interior) since 2015. Researcher at NECE – Research Center in Business Sciences (University of Beira Interior). Collaborator of Erasmus Mundus in Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology (WOP-P) as supervisor of Master Thesis (University of Coimbra, Portugal). PhD degree in Organizational Psychology from the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Master degree in Social and Organizational Psychology from ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon (Portugal). Current research interests include Social Psychology and Applied Social Psychology (Group Dynamics, Social Network Analysis and Community Psychology). Author and co-author of scientific papers published in books and journals. Member of international research project teams.