Dr. Marcin Sklad

I am an Associate Professor of Psychology and Research Methodology & Statistics at University College Roosevelt, and my current research focuses on programs enhancing the youth social development and applied cognitive and social psychology. I served and serve as project leader
and lead researcher at UCR for subject related international projects: TERRAII, CoHESION and Orpheus.

TERRAII funded by the European Commission TERRA II brought together four international institutions and researchers working on different aspects of radicalization. Within the project, UCR developed educational tools to foster emotional and social skills as well as mutual
understanding among young people. In CoHESION we developed and enhanced citizenship curricula for youth designed to build social inclusion and the and to work against radicalization. ORPHEUS INTERREG 2 Seas project explores alternative forms of offline and online prevention of political violence among socially alienated young people with young people and their educators as central actors.

I also served as the head of academic core department at UCR and research consultant at the Hague University of Applied Sciences in the knowledge center Youth Education for several years (until the end of the center), where he supervised methodology of research projects related to youth development. (e.g. pedagogical knowledge of parents, effectiveness of school-based socio-emotional learning programs and innovative educational methods). I completed my Ph.D. in Social Cognitive Psychology at Warsaw University. My main areas of interest are social cognitive psychology, applied developmental and educational psychology, positive psychology, methodology of social sciences, survey research methodology and applied statistics, as well as the application of social and cognitive psychology to research methodology and education.