Dr Eliza Berezina

Dr Eliza Berezina

  • Programme Leader of BSc (Hons) Psychology
Department of Psychology

Biography

Dr Eliza Berezina is Senior Lecturer at the School of Science and Technology. She has been working as a Psychology lecturer in private colleges in Singapore for four years before joining Sunway University. Dr Berezina obtained her Masters' and doctoral degrees in Psychology at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Prior to moving to Singapore, she worked as a researcher in the National Research Center on Drug Addiction in Russia, providing education to health professionals and conducting research on the community’s well-being. She has extensive experience in project management on public health in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. She devoted seven years to the implementation of prevention programmes with hard-to-reach populations to provide psychological support for vulnerable groups.

Dr Berezina is a member of the European Association of Social Psychologists (EASP), the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP), the International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP), the Singapore Psychological Society (SPS) and the Malaysian Psychological Association (PSIMA).

 

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • PhD in Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia (2011)
  • University Diploma of Higher Education in Psychology and Pedagogy (equivalent to MSc), Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia (2005)
  • Higher Education Certificate in Psychology (equivalent to BSc Psychology), Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia (2003)

Research Interests

  • Behavioural change and associated techniques
  • Well-being, life satisfaction and social identity
  • Stress coping, social support and quality of life
  • Quality of life in old age
  • Social representations of health and illness

Notable Publications

  1. Berezina, E. B., & Bovina, I. B. (2010). Social representations of alcohol and drug abuse among youth. Bulletin of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. Series Psychology and Pedagogic, 3, 61–65.
  2. Berezina, E. B. (2011). Lay representations of socially significant diseases. Health Psychology: Sport, prevention, life style. collection of conference abstracts (pp. 65-69). Moscow: Moscow State University of Psychology & Education.
  3. Berezina, E. B. (2011). Representations of causes of somatic diseases among youth. In A. L. Svenitsky (Ed.), Ananiev’s readings – 2011. Social psychology and life: Collection of conference abstracts (pp. 351-352). Saint-Petersburg University publishing house.
  4. Berezina, E. B., & Bovina, I. B. (2012). Social and psychological aspects of prevention programs in health. Collection of abstracts V Congress of Russian Psychological Society, Vol. 2 (p. 217). Moscow.
  5. Berezina, E. B., & Bovina, I. B. (2013). Bullying in school: Social psychological theory and practice. Social psychology in educational field. Proceedings of the International scientific and practical conference (p. 139). Moscow.
  6. Berezina, E. B. (2016). Social representations of health and illness in Singapore. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Social Representations (Abstract number: 97334). Marseille, France.
  7. Bovina, I. B., Dvoryanchikov, N. V., Berezina, E. B., Debolsky, M. G., Konopleva, I. N., & Il’in, A. V. (2014). Social representations of drugs among young Russians: Shared common views and social positions. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 7(1), 158-168.
  8. Dvoryanchikov N. V., Bovina, I. B., Vikhristuck, O., Berezina, E. B., Bannikov, G., & Konopleva, I. N. (2014). Self-murder and self-murderers in social representations of young Russians: An exploratory study. Psichologija, 50, 33-48.
  9. Volik, M. V., Karmanova, G. A., Berezina, E. B., Kresina, T., Sadykova, R., Khalabuda, L. N., & Fattakhov, F. Z. (2012). Development of combination HIV prevention programs for people who inject drugs through government and civil society collaboration in the Russian Federation. Advances in Preventive Medicine, 2012, 874615. doi: 10.1155/2012/874615