Val Tadić

Valerija Tadić BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, FHEA

Associate Professor of Psychology

Val completed her PhD in Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Before joining Greenwich in 2018 she worked at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health; here she worked on several interdisciplinary, applied research projects, drawing on multidisciplinary collaborations across social and population health sciences and clinical practice, combining qualitative and quantitative research methods and drawing on public and patient involvement in her research.

Val’s academic expertise and interests are at the intersection of developmental psychology and health services research. Her research is concerned with improving quality of life of children and young people with disabilities and chronic conditions, with a primary focus on wellbeing of children and young people with visual impairment and those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Her specific interests centre around:

  • Understanding and measuring the impact of visual impairment on children and young people from the visually impaired child’s and young person’s perspectives, and development and application of child-appropriate questionnaires/patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to capture this impact (i.e. their quality of life and functional vision).
  • Identification and understanding of the predictive factors and resilience mechanisms that shape quality of life outcomes for visually impaired children and young people and their families, with a view to identifying the targets for family-oriented interventions.
  • The experience and process of transitioning to adulthood for young people with SEND, drawing on participatory research principles and experiential knowledge and expertise of parents and young people themselves.

Val is interested in supervising PhD students with an interest in her research areas.

Val teaches topics in developmental, health and clinical psychology across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Post previously held:

  • 2008 - 2018, Research Associate. UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
  • 2009 - 2014, Workshop and seminar organiser (honorarium). Mary Kitzinger Trust charity, UK
  • 2004 - 2005, Research Assistant. Institute of Child Health, Neurosciences Unit (Developmental Vision Clinic, Great Ormond Street Hospital)
  • 2002 - 2004, Research Assistant. Psychology Department, Goldsmiths, University of London

Psychology

Allied health professions, dentistry, nursing and pharmacy