Marcela Tenorio D.
Principal Researcher
mtenorio@uandes.cl
Marcela is a psychologist. She studied her undergraduate degree at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) and her doctorate at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow funded by the Chilean Government and supported by the British Academy. She works as an associate professor at the School of Psychology at Universidad de los Andes in Chile since 2014. Her teaching focuses on the field of disability from the perspective of the developmental trajectories theory and neuropsychology. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses. Her research has been funded by different sources, including public funds from different government divisions such as ANID and the Ministry of Social Development and Family, and funds from third sector institutions. Her research has focused on the development of basic and applied science in relevant topics to intellectual disability and other developmental conditions. With her team, she has explored topics on school inclusion, autonomy development throughout the life cycle, care relationships and support with caregivers, and social participation. She currently leads a Fondecyt project and is the alternate director of the Millennium Institute for Research on Care (MICARE). She also works to promote the use of Easy-to-Read as a fundamental method to achieve democratic access to information and to incorporate Experience Experts transversally in her work teams. Marcela’s methodology is predominantly quantitative, although she has experience in mixed-method studies. She is especially concerned with the incorporation of evidence-based practices in the field of disability.