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Claudia Lopes |
| PhD Student in Social Research Methods |
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| Office: | Room B805, Columbia House | |
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London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE United Kingdom |
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| Phone: | +44 (0)20 7955 7997 | |
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c.i.lopes@lse.ac.uk
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| Working Title of PhD: From description to explanation in cross-national research: The case of economic morality | |
| Supervisors: Professor George Gaskell and Dr Jonathan Jackson | |
| Scholarship: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation |
| Research Interests |
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• Consumer fraud |
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• Economic morality and values |
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• Cross-national survey research methods |
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• Analysis of multilevel data |
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• International social surveys |
| Background/Academic positions |
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• Graduate teaching assistant at MI/LSE (Mi451 - Quantitative Analysis I: Description and Inference and MI452 - Quantitative Analysis II: The Generalised Linear Model) |
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• Senior teaching assistant at Faculty of Psychology of the University of Coimbra, Portugal (Psychological Research Methods I/II and Social Psychology I/II) |
| • Researcher at Center for Social Studies of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra |
| • Master in Social Psychology - University of Porto (Portugal) |
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• European Degree of Advanced Studies in Social Psychology - University of Bari (Italy) |
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• Degree in Psychology - University of Coimbra |
| Publications and Conference Papers |
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• Lopes, C.A. (2010). Consumer morality in times of economic hardship: Evidence from the European Social Survey. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 34(2), 112-120. |
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• Frade, C. & Lopes, C. A. (2009). Overindebtedness and financial stress: A comparative study in Europe In J. Niemi, I. Ramsay & W.C. Whitford (Eds.), Consumer Credit, Debt and Bankruptcy: Comparative and International Perspectives (pp.249-271). Oxford: Hart Publishing. |
| • Lopes, C. A. (2009). Economic morality and crimes of everyday life. In L. Sousa (Ed.) Ethics, the state and the economy: Europeans' attitudes and practices. Lisbon: ICS (available in Portuguese only). |
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• Lopes, C.A. (2007). The impact of relative income position on consumer fraud: A cross-national analysis. Paper presented at Second Conference of the European Survey Research Association. Faculty of Economics, Prague, 25-29 June. |
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• Frade, C., and Lopes, C.A. (2006). The fable of the grasshopper and the ant or a short story of consumers' financial profiles. Consumer financial capability: Empowering European consumers (pp. 24-37). Brussels: European Credit Research Institute. |
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• Frade, C., Lopes, C.A., Nogueira, C., Magalhaes, S., and Brinca, P. (2006). Unemployment and consumers' overindebtedness. University of Coimbra: Center for Social Studies (available in Portuguese only). |
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