Alexandra Fisher

Bio

Alex (she/her) is a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to the University of Edinburgh, she worked at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at the Australian National University and the University of Exeter. Her research uses mixed methods to study gender and social inequalities in work and close relationships.

Research Interests 

Gender roles, gender inequalities, social identity, close relationships, singlehood 

Research Summary

Dr Fisher’s research examines how gender role norms and expectations sustain gender inequalities, both in the context of work and close relationships. As part of this work, she has partnered with organisations, including the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (Australia), to identify and address gender and intersectional inequalities across sectors. As a research affiliate of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (ANU), Dr Fisher is currently working with an interdisciplinary team and the Australian government to co-develop evidence-based interventions to prevent technology-facilitated abuse targeting women and gender diverse people.   

Select Outputs

Fisher, A.N., Stinson, D.A., Kalajdzic, A., Dupuis, H.E., Lowey, E.E., Desgrosseilliers, E., MacIntosh, A. (2025). “A recipe for disaster?”: Female-breadwinner relationships threaten heterosexual scripts.Sex Roles 

Fisher, A.N., Ryan, M.K., Liao, Y.H., Mikołajczak, G., Riedjk, L., Leander, N.P., & PsyCorona Collaboration (2024). The precarity of progress: Implications of a shifting gendered division of labor for relationships and well-being as a function of country-level gender equality. Sex Roles

Fisher, A.N., & Ryan, M.K. (2021). Gender inequalities during COVID-19. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations