CV Summary

Elzbieta Malgorzata Bobrowicz Campos completed a PhD degree in Psychology, Specialty in Psychological Assessment from the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences (FPCE) of the University of Coimbra (UC) in 2015. In 2016, she received the title of Specialist in Clinical and Health Psychology, and the title of Advanced Specialist in Neuropsychology by Portuguese Psychologists Order.

Presently, she holds a position of Assistant Professor with a research profile at the FPCE-UC. Her research focuses on health and active aging, digital transformation and equitable digital health, with the main objective of analyzing the challenges that digital transformation poses for older adults by mapping individual and socially shared meanings and values related to digital transition.

Elzbieta is PI of the Time-To-Engage project, funded within the scope of the Social Research Programme by the La Caixa Foundation in collaboration with the Portuguese Foundation for Sciences and Technology. The project aims to: (i) explore the individual and contextual factors that interfere with citizens' intention to use digital technologies in health at an advanced age; and (ii) understand how these factors are shaped by levels of digital competences and engagement, as well as by the availability, accessibility and affordability of digital equipment and connection. She also co-coordinates a non-funded project, developed in collaboration with the Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing (UICISA:E) at the Nursing School of Coimbra. This project, entitled Aequitas@DigiHeatlh: Co-design for equitable digital health, aims to evaluate the adequacy of a theoretical model of equitable digital health from the perspective of health professionals, managers and users.

In recent years, she has been an integrated member of the research teams at the Centre for Psychological Research and Social Intervention, integrating and coordinating the research group Health for All: A Psychosocial Approach to Health (H4A), and also at the Associated Laboratory - SocioDigital Lab for Public Policy, both at the Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon (Iscte-IUL). She has been also a Guest Lecturer in the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at the School of Social and Human Sciences at the same institution. Throughout her career she also collaborated with the research group of Policies and Educational Organizations and Educational Dynamics at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra and with the research group Well-being, Health and Illness at UICISA:E.

Elzbieta is a part of the Portuguese team of the Red Interuniversitaria Euroamericana de Investigación ALFAMED - Competencias Mediáticas de la Ciudadanía.

Within the scope of these collaborations, she was involved in several national and international projects aiming to empower older adults for autonomy and self-care through evidence-based interventions and use of digital technologies. These initiatives promoted health gains and contributed to improving physical and cognitive functioning, quality of life, and inclusion in the context of digital transformation.

Academic Qualifications
University/Institution Type Degree Period
Universidade de Coimbra
Portugal - Coimbra
PhD Psychology, specialty in Psychological Assessment 2007 - 2015
Universidade de Coimbra
Portugal - Coimbra
M.Sc. Psychology, specialization in Psychological Assessment (parte curricular) 2004 - 2005
Universidade de Adam Mickiewicz / Faculdade de Ciências Sociais
Poland
M.Sc. Psychology 1997 - 2002
Research Interests
Active and healthy aging
Digital inclusion
Media literacy
Health equity
Use of ICT in health
Frailty
Autobiographical and cultural narratives