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Sarah Choi
Lecturer
School of PsychologySarah Choi is a lecturer in the School of Psychology.
She completed her PhD project at Massey University in 2024. Her project explored how people remember, interpret and narrate collectively experienced events from the past. From this thesis, Sarah has published articles in Memory Studies and the European Journal of Social Psychology alongside book chapters.
She also completed her Master's thesis at Massey University in 2019, which investigated the discursive and rhetorical justification of New Zealand's colonial practices in historical Speeches from the Throne. From this, Sarah has published articles in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology and the Journal of Social and Political Psychology.
Sarah's research interests are in cultural psychology and interdisciplinary memory studies, with a theoretical focus on history and identity and an applied focus in history education and broader critical pedagogy. She is trained in conducting both qualitative and quantitative research and is a keen advocate for research that is interdisciplinary, mixed-methods and done in context.
Sarah Choi is a lecturer who completed her PhD in the School of Psychology at Massey University in 2024.
She does work in the areas of social identity, social representations, and narratives as they relate to the historical and collective remembering of communities.
Research Expertise
Research Interests
Cultural Psychology, Intergroup Relations, Identity, Narrative Psychology
Thematics
21st Century Citizenship, Health and Well-being
Area of Expertise
Field of research codes
Psychology (170100):
Psychology And Cognitive Sciences (170000):
Social and Community Psychology (170113)
Keywords
social identity, collective memory, intergroup relations, narrative psychology, cultural psychology
Teaching and Supervision
Teaching Statement
Honours and Masters supervision
Media and Links
Professor Emeritus
Prof Ian M Evans
Honorary Teaching and Research Fellow
Dr Ross Flett
Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Amanda Young-Hauser