Professor of social psychology (2010-present), earned PhD in psychology from University of Zagreb (1997). Scientific trainings in Norway (1992), Poland (1994), and USA (1999). Fulbright visiting scholar at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA (2003/2004); visiting research fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA (2014). Visiting professor at the University of Osijek, University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and Queen's University Belfast (Northern Ireland).
Supervised more than thirty diploma theses, four MA theses, and one PhD thesis. Head of the doctoral program in psychology (2005-2015). Chair of the Ethical Review Board (2009-2013), Head of the Social Psychology Unit (2013-). Collaborated in many domestic and international projects; principal investigator in four international projects. Chair or a member of organizational boards of several domestic and international conferences.
Member of the Croatian Psychological Association; European Association for Social Psychology, European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and founding member of the Society for Psychological Assistance and Croatian Society for Traumatic Stress. Edited three books. Published over fifty scientific and professional papers, participated in numerous domestic and international conferences. Awarded National Scientific Award (2005); Ramiro Bujas Award of Croatian Psychological Association for Scientific Excellence (2009); Ramiro Bujas Award of Croatian Psychological Association for the Book of the Year in Psychology (2009); Fiat Psychologia Award of Croatian Psychological Association for Contribution to Applied Psychology (2012).
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My main research interests are in the area of intergroup relation in war and peace. In past fifteen years I have been working on issues of social reconstruction in communities affected by war, with emphasis on the processes that contribute to normalization of intergroup relations, community recovery and social progress.
I am particularly interested in processes of ethnic identification and (ethnic) identity development and implications these processes have in majority-minority relations, particularly in dynamics of intensifying and ameliorating the conflict. In this context I have been studying minority education and the role it has in social integration and development of multiple identities of minority children. These issues are central topic of my ongoing four-year project entitled Integration processes of majority and minority in ethnically mixed communities: The role of interethnic contact, threat and social norms, financed by the Croatian Science Foundation. I am also interested in ethical issues of psychological research, especially in qualitative research.
Selected publications
Čorkalo Biruški, D. (Ur.). (2009). Primijenjena psihologija: pitanja i odgovori. Zagreb: Školska knjiga.
Čorkalo Biruški, D. i Ajduković, D. (2012). Škola kao prostor socijalne integracije djece i mladih u Vukovaru. Zagreb: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
Spini, D., Elcheroth, D. & Corkalo Biruski, D. (Eds). (2014). War, Community, and Social Change: Collective Experiences in the Former Yugoslavia. New York: Springer
Čorkalo Biruški, D., Ajduković, D., Löw, A. i Bakić, H. (Ur.). (2016). Može li se oprostiti nakon rata: psihologijski pogled. Zagreb: FF press.
Corkalo, D., Ajdukovic, D., Weinstein, H., Stover, E., Djipa, D., Biro, M. (2004). Neighbors again? Inter-Community Relations after Ethnic Violence. In: Eric Stover and Harvey Weinstein (Eds.). My neighbor, my enemy: Justice and community in the aftermath of mass atrocity. Cambridge University Press. pp. 143-161
Ajdukovic, D. & Corkalo, D. (2004). Trust and Betrayal in War. In: Eric Stover and Harvey Weinstein (Eds.). My neighbor, my enemy: Justice and community in the aftermath of mass atrocity. Cambridge University Press. pp. 287-302
Corkalo Biruski, D. (2012). Lessons learned from the Former Yugoslavia: The Case of Croatia. In D. Landis & R. Albert (Ur.), Handbook of Ethnopolitical Conflict (pp. 327-348). New York: Springer Verlag.
Čorkalo Biruški, D. & Ajduković, D. (2012). Parallel worlds of divided community: Time does not make much difference. In O. Simić, Z. Volčič and C. R. Philpot (Eds). Peace psychology in the Balkans: Dealing with a violent past while building peace (pp. 177-198). New York: Springer.
Corkalo Biruski, D. & Penic, S. (2014). Traumatised Selves: Does War Trauma Facilitate In-Group Bonding and Out-Group Distancing? In D. Spini, G. Elcheroth & Corkalo Biruski, D. (Eds). War, Community, and Social Change: Collective Experiences in the Former Yugoslavia (pp. 137-153). New York: Springer.
Čorkalo Biruški, D. & Ajduković, D. (2016). Young adults’ perspective of social reconstruction in three post-war communities in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In M. Fischer & O. Simic (Eds.), Transitional justice and reconciliation: Lessons from the Balkans (169-192). Routledge.
Reidy, C. M., Taylor, L. K., Merrilees, C. E., Ajduković, D., Čorkalo Biruški, D. & Cummings, E. M. (2015). The political socialization of youth in a post-conflict community. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 45, 11-23.
Čorkalo Biruški, D., Ajduković, D. & Löw Stanić, A. (2014). When the world collapses: changed worldview and social reconstruction in a traumatized community. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 5, 24098.
Jelić, M., Čorkalo Biruški, D. & Ajduković, D. (2013). Predictors of collective guilt after the violent conflict. Collegium Antropologicum, 37, 1-10.
Ajduković, D. & Corkalo Biruski D. (2008). Caught between the ethnic sides: inter-ethnic relations of children and parents in the post-war community. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 32 (4), 337-347.
Complete bibliography
Undergraduate study programme in psychology
Graduate study programme in psychology
- Ethics in psychological research and practice
- Psychology of prejudice and discrimination
- Psychology of war and peace
Postgraduate doctoral study programme in psychology
- Nationalism and In-group Ethnocentrism
- Individual and Social Change
Professional postgraduate programme in clinical psychology
- Ethical Issues in Clinical Work
Dinka Čorkalo Biruški, Ph.D.
Professor
Room: C-314, Tel. 4092-197
E-mail: dinka.corkalo@ffzg.hr
consultations:
as per e-mail appointment
Dinka has oriented her professional interest to the area of development and implementation of the programs aimed to overcome ethnic division in post-conflict communities.
She serves as a reviewer in many domestic and international professional journals. She is a member of editorial board of Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology and Journal of Social and Political Psychology.
She has served as a reviewer of research projects funded by Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, Croatian Science Foundation, European Science Foundation and Israel Science Foundation.
She is a member of the Croatian Psychological Association; European Association for Social Psychology, European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and a founding member of the Society for Psychological Assistance and Croatian Society for Traumatic Stress.