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Irma Brkovic

Universitetslektor

Avdelningen allmän didaktik och pedagogiskt arbete
Telefon
031-786 49 61
0766-18 49 61
E-post
irma.brkovic@gu.se
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Läroverksgatan 15
41120 Göteborg
Rumsnummer
B3 312b
Postadress
Box 300
40530 Göteborg

Om Irma Brkovic

I graduated Psychology at the University of Zagreb (Croatia) in 2003. I received a Master of 91̽»¨ in health psychology from Leiden University (the Netherlands) in 2006, and defended my doctoral thesis in developmental psychology at the University of Zagreb in 2010. I have attended numerous methodological and statistical seminars and workshops, for example at A European Data Laboratory for Comparative Social Research in Cologne (2007, 2008) and Manheim (2010). I received additional trainings in ASEBA assessment, early development assessment and Theraplay.

Before starting my academic career, I worked as survey specialist in institutional and social assessment, on projects financed by, for example, the World Bank, the International Red Cross, and IBRD. At the University of Zagreb, I worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Psychology, teaching and researching developmental psychology and educational psychology. I also taught developmental psychology at the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation 91̽»¨s and the Faculty of Teacher Education. I have been working as a senior lecturer at IDPP since 2016.

I currently teach research methodology in courses at undergraduate level in teacher education programmes, in the research master’s programmes Master i Didaktik, International Master’s Programme in Educational Research, and Education for Sustainable Development, as well as in the . In addition, I teach topics in pedagogical work and developmental science in courses for international students at GU as well as at the Center for Educational 91̽»¨ and Teacher Research (CUL).

When teaching and supervising, I implement experience from over 20 years of research in the social sciences. In my research I have implemented cross-sectional (, , , ), longitudinal (), cohort-sequential (, ) and school-based (quasi)experimental (, , , , ) research designs. I have always been passionate about methodological and psychometric challenges related to studying different age groups of children and adults. I have worked with these challenges when studying groups of lower (, , , ) and upper (, , , ) primary school children, upper secondary school children (), young adults (, , ), adults (, ) and the elderly (). I also worked with family (, ) and medical (, , ) studies.

As a part of various research collaborations, I have focused on developing methodological and analytical approaches to studying child development and parent-child relationships, reading and writing during early and late schooling, children’s early understanding of numbers, and student teachers’ conceptions of didactics and plant awareness. I am currently working in projects studying mentor teachers’ professional development, teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs, the in student teachers’ professional development as well as the role of teacher education in developing student research competencies.