Maria del Rio Carral’s research interests include health practices, digital health, and qualitative research methods. She completed her PhD at University of Lausanne in health psychology, aimed at providing an alternative framework to subjective wellbeing through a focus on everyday practices. During her postdoc at the University of Louvain (Belgium), she focused on postdocs’ everyday life to analyse precariousness in academia. She was co-author of a EU project aimed at Gendering the Academy and Research: Combatting Career Instability and Asymmetries (GARCIA). Recently, her work focuses on health practices with regard to digital health and social media use in a healthist and postfeminist era. Other research interests include qualitative research methods in psychology. Moreover, she co-founded the first European association for Qualitative research In Psychology (EQuiP). Recently she joined the board of the Swiss society for health psychology and is involved as associate editor for Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine. Currently, she is Associate Professor in Qualitative Health Psychology.