Members of the sub-department
Tena Velki, Full Professor, Ph.D.
First and last name | Tena Velki, Ph.D. |
Profession | Full Professor |
Office number | 50 |
Research interests | Primarily developmental psychology, developmental disorders, and educational inclusion. In the past 10 years, she has actively focused on information security, awareness, data privacy, and the risk behavior of computer users. |
Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words) | Tena Velki, PhD, is a Full Professor in the field of developmental psychology. She served as the Vice Dean of Science for two years. She graduated as the top student in psychology in 2008 from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek and completed her PhD in 2012 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. In 2015, she received recognition from the Faculty of Education for her successful work and extraordinary contribution. In 2017, she was acknowledged by the Croatian Psychological Association, and in 2018, she received the "Marulić: Fiat Psychologia" social recognition for her significant contribution to the development and promotion of Croatian applied psychology. In 2019, she was awarded for the best scientific article. |
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Dunja Jurić Vukelić, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
First and last name | Dunja Jurić Vukelić, Ph.D. |
Profession | Assistant Professor |
Office number | 10 |
Research interests | educational psychology, developmental psychology, health psychology |
Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words) | Dunja Jurić Vukelić, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, was born on August 27, 1988, in Sisak, where she completed elementary school and general gymnasium. She earned her master's degree in psychology from the Faculty of Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb in 2013. She completed her internship at the SUVAG Polyclinic for the Rehabilitation of Hearing and Speech in 2015. From March 2016 to September 2017, she worked as a professional associate in the School and University Medicine Service and the Department for Mental Health, Prevention, and Outpatient Treatment of Addictions at the Public Health Institute of Sisak-Moslavina County. Since 2015, she has participated in teaching at the Faculty of Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb as an external lecturer, and from 2017 to 2023, she was employed as an assistant at the Department of Psychology. In 2021, she earned her doctorate from the postgraduate doctoral program in Biomedicine and Health at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb, with a dissertation on the psychosocial characteristics of women undergoing assisted reproduction. In September 2023, she was employed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Humanities Sciences at the University of Slavonski Brod, and since November 2023, she has held the same position at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. Her advisory, professional, and research interests focus on the fields of educational psychology, developmental psychology, and health psychology, as well as the practical applications of knowledge in the combination of these areas. |
Željko Rački, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
First and last name | Željko Rački, Ph.D. |
Profession | Assistant Professor |
Office number | 51 |
Research interests | educational psychology, creativity, giftedness and gifted education, psychological strengths |
Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words) | Željko Rački, PhD, Assistant Professor, ECHA Specialist in Gifted Education, is a licensed psychologist (Croatian Psychological Chamber) with twenty years of experience spanning primary education, the Clinical Hospital Centre Osijek, and higher education and research. He served two terms as head of the Department of Social Sciences (2018–2020 and 2020–2022) and coordinated the Osijek Centre of Excellence project for the education of gifted primary school students in the City of Osijek (2017–2020). He is currently the head of the Faculty’s Centre for Talent Research and Education. He is a member of the Croatian Psychological Chamber, the Independent Union of Science and Higher Education, the Croatian Mountaineering Society "Bršljan-Jankovac," and the European Council for High Ability (ECHA). |
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Ivana Borić Letica, Assistant, Ph.D.
First and last name | Ivana Borić Letica, Ph.D. |
Profession | Assistant |
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Office number | 50 |
Research interests | developmental psychology, adolescents' risky behaviors, online risks |
Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words) | Ivana Borić Letica, Ph.D., Assistant, was born in 1991 in Osijek, where she finished primary school and III. (science and mathematics) high school. She graduated in Psychology in 2015 from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek with excellent academic results. She won the Chancellor’s Award for the 2015-2016 academic year. She completed the second level of behavioral-cognitive therapy education (HUBIKOT, Zagreb, 2017-2020). She defended her doctoral dissertation under the title "Examining the Prototype willingness model for explanation of adolescents' behavior on social networks" in 2024 at the doctoral studies in Psychology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. From 2015 to 2023, she worked as a school psychologist and psychology teacher in elementary school and various secondary schools in Osijek. Since 2018, she has been working as an external associate, and since 2023, she has been employed as an assistant at the Faculty of Education in Osijek on various courses in the field of Developmental Psychology. She published several scientific papers and participated in several international scientific conferences. She is a member of the Croatian Psychological Chamber (CPC), the Croatian Psychological Association (CPA), and the secretary of the Society of Psychologists Osijek (SPO). |
List of publications (link to CroRIS) |