Vanja Međugorac
Senior research assistant
- Job title: Senior research assistant
- Field of interest: environmental psychology, environmental/energy social sciences, educational sciences
Qualifications, scientific advancement and education
PhD - College of Business, University College Dublin, Ireland; PhD Thesis title: "Whose energy systems? Ownership and social acceptance of energy-system-related policies and technologies"
MA Psychology - Centre for Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb
BA Psychology - Centre for Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb
Research stay at University of Bath, School of Management
Completed programme "Energy, environment and sustainable development (ISSSUM4180)", University of Oslo, Centre for Development and the Environment
Research assistant, Institute of social sciences Ivo Pilar
Research projects
4Cs - Learning Amidst Disinformation and Social Conflict: Young People and Teachers Co-Constructing Curriculum through Transnational Dialogue (T-AP)
ESIPP - Energy Systems Integration Partnership Programme (SFI)
Vocational Development in Adolescence: Setting the Adolescent Career Transition Model (CSF)
MYPLACE - Memory, youth, political legacy and civic engagement (FP7)
Social attitudes and intergroup relationship in Croatian society (Croatian Ministry of Science)
Selected bibliography
Međugorac, V., & Schuitema, G. (2023). Why is bottom-up more acceptable than top-down? A study on collective psychological ownership and place-technology fit in the Irish Midlands. Energy Research & Social Science, 96, 102924.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102924
Köhler, J. K., Kreil, A. S., Wenger, A., Darmandieu, A., Graves, C., Haugestad, C. A. P., Holzen, V., Keller, E., Lloyd, S., Marczak, M., Međugorac, V., & Rosa, C. D. (2022). The need for sustainability, equity, and international exchange: perspectives of early career environmental psychologists on the future of conferences. Frontiers in psychology, 13, 906108.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.906108
Međugorac, V., Šverko, I., & Babarović, T. (2020). Careers in sustainability: an application of Social Cognitive Career Theory. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 20, 477-499.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10775-019-09413-3
Bouchat, P., Licata, L., Rosoux, V., Allesch, C., Ammerer, H., Babinska, M., Bilewicz, M., Bobowik, M., Bovina, I., Bruckmüller, S., Cabecinhas, R., Chryssochoou, X., Csertő, I., Delouvée, S., Durante, F., Ernst-Vintila, A., Flassbeck, C., Franc, R., Hilton, D., Keles, S., Kesteloot, C., Kışlıoğlu, R., Krenn, A., Macovei, I., Mari, S., Međugorac, V., Petrović, N., Pólya, T., Raudsepp, M., Sá, A., Sakki, I., Turjacanin, V., Türken, S., van Ypersele, L., Vojak, D., Volpato, C., Warland, G., & Klein, O. (2019). Greedy elites and poor lambs: How young Europeans remember the Great War. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7(1), 52-75.
https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v7i1.781
Sloot, D., Kutlača, M., Međugorac, V., & Čarman, P. (2018). Recycling alone or protesting together? Values as a basis for proenvironmental social change actions. Frontiers in psychology, 9, 1229.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01229
Derado, A., Dergić, V., & Međugorac, V. (2016). Croatian youth and populism: A mixed methods analysis of the populism "breeding ground" among the youth in the city of Zagreb. Revija za sociologiju, 46(2), 141-173.
https://doi.org/10.5613/rzs.46.2.2
Franc, R., & Međugorac, V. (2015). Mladi i (ne)povjerenje u institucije: moguće odrednice i posljedice. U: V. Ilišin, A. Gvozdanović, D. Potočnik (Ur.), Demokratski potencijali mladih u Hrvatskoj (pp. 47-63). Zagreb: Institute for social research in Zagreb.
Šverko, I., Babarović, T., & Međugorac, V. (2014). Pictorial assessment of interests: Development and evaluation of Pictorial and Descriptive Interest Inventory. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 84(3), 356-366.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2014.02.008