Lucía Pérez Rodero

Doctoral researcher in the Department of Methodology of Behavioural Sciences at the Universidad de Granada and member of PsychometricLab (Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center — CIMCYC).

Lucía graduated in Psychology from the Universidad de Murcia. She continued her training with the Master's in Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience at UGR, complemented by an additional year of Neuroscience studies at the University of Padua (Italy). Her first contact with research came during the master's, where she collaborated on a research project — an experience that introduced her to the daily work of researchers and to the collection and analysis of electrophysiological data. She then worked as a research technician focused on neuropsychological assessment in children and adolescents, an experience that helped her understand the importance of psychological evaluation.

Current work

Lucía is starting her research career, in her first year of the PhD programme. She holds an FPI predoctoral grant associated with EDUCONS, a project that — through a mixed-methods approach — primarily explores the consequences of assessment, addressing also response processes and other sources of validity evidence. The project's main aim is to analyse how the consequences inherent to psychological and educational assessment can have an impact on the response processes of those being assessed.

Motivations and inspirations

Her core research motivation is to develop a robust methodological framework that allows for deeper exploration of less-studied sources of validity evidence — making psychological evaluation methods ever more complete and rigorous, fostering fairer assessment experiences and, with them, fairer consequent decisions. On a personal level, she is driven by the urge to learn and to apply that learning to improving research processes and assessment methods, and through them to contribute to social well-being.