Dr. Islam Borinca is a Lecturer/Asst Professor in the School of Psychology, University College Dublin. He obtained his doctorate degree in Social Psychology from the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne as a PhD Scholarship Excellence Recipient on an individual PhD project sponsored by the Swiss Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students. Afterward, he worked as a teaching/research assistant at the Center Emile Bernheim, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels). Following that, he conducted his postdoctoral research at the University of Limerick (Ireland). His research focuses on intergroup relations, specifically examining help, contact, and group norms, with an emphasis on emotions, empathy, dehumanization, meta-dehumanization, intergroup apologies, prejudice, and discrimination in hostile and non-hostile contexts. He also investigates gender norms, gender roles, and behaviors. In addition, his research examines intragroup processes in regards to threats, expectations, and health.
