Dr Linda Chiodo

Dr Linda Chiodo is a Lecturer in Psychology in the College of Sport, Health and Engineering. She is also a registered psychologist.

Linda's research interests include the psychosocial wellbeing of youth, women and marginalised groups, intersectional understandings of gender performativity, sexism and collective community wellbeing. Her PhD research broadly focused on identity development and understandings and negotiations of normative femininities in the context of a postfeminist and neoliberal sociocultural context. It examined the psychosocial wellbeing of young women and the ways in which they understood and performed girlhood. The role of the school environment and peers play in  young women's negotiations of normative femininities were considered. This research also explored young women's understandings of sexism and the ways in which they are engaged and disengaged with contemporary feminism.

Linda's research has primarily involved qualitative research methods and extends to evaluations of community, local government and school based programs supporting complex families and diverse young people.