Christina Maria Beran

Christina Maria Beran, MSc in Psychology, Postgraduate Certificates in Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology, Industrial Psychology and Organizational Psychology, author, political consultant, speaker is living and working in Vienna, Austria. She is also vice president of the Professional Association of Austrian Psychologists and a leading member of the Board of Ethics there.

Once employed in the field as a youth worker, she used her insights at a scientific level and examined the potential for designing socio-spatial employment projects as part of the EQUAL development partnership space!lab. A large part of this work was devoted to the structural change of the labor society, with a particular focus on the digital labor society. The starting points for the socio-spatial employment projects were strongly resource-oriented and thus certainly nothing less than psychological. A book was also written about this work together with two co-authors. The project developed on the basis of this basic research won the EFS Innovation Award in 2013.

Psychology has always been her companion. Whether she was active at the local political level, advising parties, or co-developing a method for surveying the emotional aspects of electoral decisions for market and opinion research (EmOpIn-Types™).

Today she works as a psychologist, coach, and consultant, but primarily as a lecturer, speaker and author (working on a book about Ethics at the moment) and is very involved in professional politics. The common thread is certainly the high level of commitment to making the findings of psychology accessible and useful to the general public.