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Dr. Marcin Sklad

Associate Professor of Research Methodology & Statistics
Marcin Sklad

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m.sklad@ucr.nl Tel: +31 (0) 118 655 520
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About me

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.

Academic qualifications

  • 2006: Ph.D. in Psychology, Warsaw University, Poland
  • 1998: M.A. in Social Psychology, Warsaw University, Poland

Professional career

  • 2005-Now: Associate professor, University College Roosevelt, (University College of Utrecht University), Middelburg, the Netherlands.
  • 2007-Now: Research advisor, The Hague University, The knowledge center: Youth Education
  • 1998-2005: Lecturer, The Warsaw School of Social Psychology (Szkola Wyzsza Psychologii Spolecznej, SWPS)
  • 2001-2005: Guest lecturer, SMG/KRC A Millward Brown Company
  • 1999-2005: Senior specialist, Warsaw University Center for Open and Multimedia Education (COME UW)
  • 1998-2003: Institute for Social Studies Warsaw University Ph.D. Candidate

Recent publications

  • Sklad, M., Irrmischer, M., Park, E., Versteegt, I., & Wignand, J. (2021). Social and Civic Competencies Against Radicalization in Schools. Springer International Publishing.
  • Sklad, M. (2021). Civic education and youth citizenship at a time of immigrant integration policy changes in the Netherlands. in Halse, C., & Kennedy, K. J. (Eds.) Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times. Routledge.
  • Sklad, M., Park, E., van Venrooij, I., Pickard, A., & Wignand, J. (2020). Radicalization Prevention by Means of Strengthening Social and Civic Competences. Contemporary School Psychology, 1-15.
  • Park, E., Tsirogianni, S. & Sklad, M. (2019) A critical social psychological contribution to (global) citizenship education: Seeing oneself through the eyes of the “other”. Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 16. 1330-1358.
  • Goldberg, J. M., Sklad, M., Elfrink, T. R., Schreurs, K. M., Bohlmeijer, E. T., & Clarke, A. M. (2018). Effectiveness of interventions adopting a whole school approach to enhancing social and emotional development: a meta-analysis. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1-28.
  • Vreeburg, L. E., Diekstra, R. F., Sklad, M. J., Lundy, C. D., & Tough, S. C. (2018). Comparison of Canadian and Dutch Urban Parents and Grandparents in Terms of Knowledge of Children’s Cognitive and Social–Emotional Development. SAGE Open, 8(2), 2158244018777027.
  • Sklad, M., & Park, E. (2017) Examining the Potential Role of Education in the Prevention of Radicalization from the Psychological Perspective. Peace and Conflict Journal of Peace Psychology, 23(4), 432-437. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pac0000258
  • Sklad, M., Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz. B & Zalewska, A. M. (2017). Are (second generation) young immigrants active citizens?: Case of the Netherlands. Citizenship Teaching & Learning 12(2), 227-238. DOI: 10.1386/ctl.12.2.227_1
  • Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz, B., Zalewska, A. M. & Sklad, M. (2017). Does economic condition matter?: Citizenship activity of young people in countries with different economic status. Citizenship Teaching & Learning 12(2), 151-170. DOI: 10.1386/ctl.12.2.151_1
  • Sklad, M., & Park, E. (2016). Educating for Safe and Democratic Societies: The Instructor’s Handbook for the Civic and Social Competences Curriculum for Adolescents UCARE. Middelburg: De Drukkerij.
  • Sklad, M., & Park, E. (2016). Onderwijs voor een veilige en democratische samenleving. Handboek voor docenten bij het lesporgamma UCARE voor burgerlijke en maatschappelijke vaardigheden voor adolescenten. Middelburg: De Drukkerij.
  • Sklad, M., Friedman, J., Park, E., Oomen, B. (2016). Going Glocal: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Global Citizenship Education at a Dutch Liberal Arts and Sciences College. Higher Education, 72(3), 323-340.
  • Hogenes, M., Diekstra, R; Oers, H.J.M. van‎; Sklad, M. (2016). The effects of music composition as a classroom activity on engagement in music education and academic and music achievement: A quasi-experimental study. International Journal of Music Education. 34(1), 32-48.
  • Sklad, M., Park, E. (2015). Towards a comprehensive framework for global citizenship education: Implications of social psychological theory for stimulating active global citizenship. In: Going Glocal: the theory, practice, evaluation and experience of education for global citizenship. Ed.: Barbara Oomen, Eri Park, Marcin Sklad and John Friedman.
  • Sklad, M. (2015). A quantitative evaluation of the Going Glocal program. In: Going Glocal: the theory, practice, evaluation and experience of education for global citizenship. Ed.: Barbara Oomen, Eri Park, Marcin Sklad and John Friedman.
  • Park, E. Sklad, M & Tsirogianni, S. (2015). A Qualitative Evaluation of Going Glocal, Namibia 2014. In: Going Glocal: the theory, practice, evaluation and experience of education for global citizenship. Ed.: Barbara Oomen, Eri Park, Marcin Sklad and John Friedman.
  • Sklad, M. and Park, E., (2015). Opening Students’ Minds through Field Study in Mexico: Results of the Global Citizenship Education Program Going Glocal, Round 2013, The Global Studies Journal, 8(3), 111-121.
  • Jacobs, F., Knoppers, Diekstra, R, Sklad, M., (2015). Developing a coach education course; A bottom up approach, International Sport Coaching Journal, 2(2),178-186. DOI:10.1123/iscj.2014-0055
  • Weistra S., Park E., Sklad M., (2015). Global Citizenship Education at a Dutch University College: Latin American Liberation Psychology informing the construction of the ‘other’ and the ‘self’. Journal Social Sciences Research 7(3), 1385-1393.
  • Koeijer de V., Park E., Sklad M., (2015). Social Representations of the ‘African Other’ among participants of a Global Citizenship course in the Netherlands. Journal Social Sciences Research 7(3), 1394-1402.
  • Park, E., Sklad, M., & Tsirogianni, S. (2015). Global Citizenship and the Notion of Moral Emotions. Journal of Social Sciences Research, 8(1), 1498-1509.
  • Sklad, M., Diekstra, R. (2013). The Development of the Heuristics and Biases Scale (HBS). Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 112, 710-718.
  • Sklad, M., Diekstra, R., Gravesteijn, C.M., Ben, J., Ritter, M. (2012), Effectiveness of School-based Universal Social, Emotional and Behavioral Programs: Do They Enhance Students’ Development in the Area of Skill, Behavior, and Adjustment?, Psychology in the Schools, 49(9), 892–909.
  • Sklad.M, Diekstra, R., Gravesteijn, C. M., Ben, J., Ritter, M (forthcoming) Effectiveness of School-based Universal Social, Emotional and Behavioral Programs: Do They Enhance Students’ Development in the Area of Skill, Behavior, and Adjustment. Psychology in the Schools.
  • Sklad, M. (2011). The construction of retrospective opinions. In S. Masmoudi, A. Naceur, D. Yun Dai. (Eds.) Attention, Representation, and Human Performance: Integration of Cognition, Emotion and Motivation. PsyPress
  • Gravesteijn, C., Diekstra, R., Sklad, M., Winter, M. (2011). The Effects of a Dutch School-Based Social and Emotional Learning Programme (SEL) on suicidality in adolescents. The International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 13(4), pp. 4-16.
  • Gravesteijn, C. Diekstra, R. & Sklad, M. (2011). Vermindering suïcidaliteit door schoolgericht vaardigheidsprogramma voor adolescenten. Kind en Adolescent, 32, 101-115.
  • Diekstra, R.F.W., Wubs, J.M., Vreeburg, L.E., Sklad, M., & de Ruiter,M. (2010). Towards a Canon of child andadolescent development and upbringing. In: C. Clouder, B.Heys, M. Matthes (Eds.) Improving the quality of childhood in the European Union. Current Perspectives. Brussels: Jean Monet Publications. pp. 61-81.
  • Diekstra, R., Ruiter, M., Vreeburg L. E., Sklad, M. J., (2010). Naar een Canon van opvoeding. Wat professionals weten en vinden van ontwikkeling en opvoeding Wat professionals weten en vinden van ontwikkeling en opvoeding van kinderen en jongeren en de verschillen met ouders en volwassenen. Kenniscentrum Jeugd en Opvoeding Haagse Hogeschool in opdracht van de gemeente Den Haag.
  • Diekstra, R., Sklad. M., Ben, J., Ritter, M.(2008), Teaching Social and Emotional Skills Worldwide: A meta-analytic review of effectiveness. In: Social and Emotional Education An International Analysis. Fundacion Marcelino Botin.
  • Diekstra, R., Wubs, J., Vreeburg, L., Sklad, M., Ruiter, M. (2008). Wat the inwoners Den Haag  begrijp van de ontwikkeling opvoeding van kinderen en jongen en het belangrijk daaraan heht. Gemeente den Haag.
  • Marcin Sklad (2006), Mechanizmy konstruowania opinii retrospekcyjnych, Ph.D. thesis, Psychology Department, Warsaw University. (Mechanisms of construction of retrospective opinions).
  • Wieczorkowska. G. Burnstein, E. Sklad, M (2006), What Poles Believe Now and What They Think They Believed Ten Years Ago: Opinion Change in Post-Communist Poland (1992-2002). In: K. Skarzynska and A. Golec (eds.), Political Psychology in Poland
  • Mieszkowska, A., & Skład, M. (2004). Portret uczestnika kursów internetowych. Dla kogo nauka przez Internet najlepsza. Edukacja, Studia, Badania i Innowacje, 3 (87). (Portrait of participants in Internet courses. Who can benefit the most from learning through the Internet)
  • Skład, M., & Wieczorkowska, G. (2002). Sztuka Układania Ankiet Ewaluacyjnych. In: M. Lewicka, J. Grzelak (Eds.), Jednostka i społeczeństwo, Gdańsk: GWP. (Art of creating evaluation questionnaires)
  • Skład, M. (2000). The Importance of Work in the Value Systems of the Poles and the Americans. In: E. Burnstein & G. Wieczorkowska (Eds.), Monitoring social change with survey data. ISS Working Paper series.
  • Skład, M., & Wieczorkowska, G. (1999). Pozycja pracy w systemie wartości Polaków i Amerykanów, Nowiny Psychologiczne 1/1999. (Importance of Work in the Value Systems of the Poles and the Americans)

Recent conference presentations

  • Sklad, M. (2021). Young people citizenship and radicalization. Can radicalization be an expression of young people citizenship engagement and can civic competency prevent it? European conference of developmental psychology 2021,September 10th 2021 Austria – Poland – Norway.
  • Sklad, M. (2019). Testing Predictions of Integrated Threat Theory and Contact Hypothesis for the Attitudes Towards Refugees in the Dutch Province The 31st APS Annual Convention, May 23-26, 2019, in Washington, DC, USA.
  • Sklad, M. (2018) & Park E. The Instructor’s Handbook for the Civic and Social Competences Curriculum for Adolescents UCARE put into practice: experiences, observations, and latest developments. Conference pa Gundtvigs Hojskole om forebyggelse af udenforskab, vrede og kriminalitet. Denmark.
  • Sklad, M. & Park E (2018). Prevention of Radicalization by Strengthening Social and Civic Competences. International Congress of Applied Psychology, Montreal, Canada
  • Sklad, M. (2018). Civic education and youth citizenship in the times of immigrant integration policy changes in the Netherlands. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting New York City.
  • Sklad, M. (2017). Radicalization prevention by means of strengthening social and civic competences. The 15th European Congress of Psychology. Dutch Association of Psychologists (NIP) and the Belgian Federation of Psychologists (BFP), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Sklad, M. (2017). Are (second generation) young immigrants active citizens? – Dutch case. The 15th European Congress of Psychology. Dutch Association of Psychologists (NIP) and the Belgian Federation of Psychologists (BFP), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Sklad, M. & Park E. (2016). Results of a pilot study of a school based intervention aimed at universal primary prevention of radicalization by means of teaching social and civic skills: UCARE. 31st International Congress of Psychology: Diversity in Harmony: Insights from Psychology, Japanese Psychological Association, Yokohama, Japan.
  • Sklad, M., (2016). Educating for Safe and Democratic Societies, a Civic and Social Competences Curriculum for Adolescents UCARE’ EU TERRA project. Platform Nederlandse onderzoekers radicalisering en extremisme International Victimology Institute, Tilburg.
  • Sklad, M. (2016). Role of education in the primary and secondary prevention of radicalization: UCARE curriculum; TERRA II, final conference: Prevention, De-radicalisation and Citizenship, ARQ IMPACT, Amsterdam.
  • Sklad, M. (2016). Curriculum against Radicalisation UCARE. Juvenile Delinquency and Crossover Between Gangs and Extremism. Grundtvig’s Folk High School, Hillerød, Denmark.
  • Sklad, M. (2016). Going Glocal: Students Teaching in Secondary School.
  • All UC Teaching Faculty Conference 21 October 2016 UCU, Utrecht
  • Sklad, M. & Park, E. (2015). Teaching Global Social Responsibility at a European Liberal Arts & Sciences College: Results of the Global Citizenship Program. Global Conference on Education University of Riverside, Las Vegas, USA.
  • Sklad, M., Park, E. (2015). School Based Primary Prevention of Radicalization by Means of Teaching Social and Civic Skills. The 14th European Congress of Psychology. Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
  • Sklad, M., Park, E. (2015). Framework for universal school based primary prevention of radicalization by means of teaching social and civic skills. 6th International Human Rights Education Conference, University College Roosevelt, Middelburg, The Netherlands.
  • Hoogstins, E., Sklad, M. (2015). Measuring Cognitive Overconfidence: Pilot Study Results of a Standardized Universal Cognitive Overconfidence Scale. International Convention of Psychological Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Park, E. & Sklad, M. (2015). Terra II: Primary Prevention of Radicalization. Asian Conference on Education 2015 (ACE2015) International Academic Forum, in the Art Center of Kobe, Japan.
  • Park, E. & Sklad, M. (2015). Risks of direct challenges of stereotypes and the importance of stressing similarities within a civic high-school curriculum to prevent processes of radicalization. The 4th International SEARCH conference. Managing Crises and Risks in Communication. Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • Sklad, M., Park, E. (2014). Results of the Second Edition of Global Citizenship Program: Going Glocal. Seventh Global Studies Conference, Center for Global Studies, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.
  • Park, E., Sklad, M., Weistra, S. (2014). Going Glocal: A Qualitative Analysis of a University College Project to Teach Global Citizenship Skills. Seventh Global Studies Conference Center for Global Studies, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.
  • Sklad, M., Park E., Oomen, B. (2013). Results of the Going Glocal Programme: Teaching Global Citizenship Skills to the Next Generation. 13th European Congress of Psychology, Stockholm, under the auspices of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA), organized by the Swedish Psychological Association.
  • Sklad, M., Diekstra, R. (2013). The Development of the Heuristics and Biases Scale (HBS). The International Conference on Education and Educational Psychology (ICEEPSY). Antalya.
  • Hogenes, M., Oers, B., Diekstra, R., Sklad, M. (2013). Effects of a music composition intervention on elementary school children. The International Conference on Education and Educational Psychology (ICEEPSY). Antalya.
  • Jacobs, F., Diekstra, R,.Sklad, .M. Luderus, A. (2013). Effects of a skill for life program on youth soccer coaches. The International Conference on Education and Educational Psychology (ICEEPSY). Antalya.
  • Sklad, M., Diekstra, R., Vreeburg, L.E. (2012). Parental Values and Beliefs About Parenting and Children’s Development. 120th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Orlando.
  • Park, E., Sklad, M. Oomen, B., Mueller-Friedman, F., Friedman, J. (2012). Going Glocal: Teaching Global Citizenship Skills to the Next Generation. 6th Annual Conference of the International Centre for Education and Democratic Citizenship, history, democracy and education at Birkbeck, University of London.
  • ​Sklad, M. (2011). Individual differences in retrospective opinion consistency: personality-level predictors of declared self-consistency. The association for psychological science 23rd annual convention.
  • Sklad, M., Rigter, J., Dieksra,R. (2010). Civic competence development of 9-13 years old Dutch youth.  Individual oral paper , 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Melbourne
  • Sklad, M., (2009). Effects of social, temporal and telic comparisons on happiness. First World Congress on Positive Psychology June 18-21, 2009 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Sklad, M. (2008). Statements on opinion change as result of comparison processes: the relation between size of opinion change and the direction of comparison.  XXIX International Congress of Psychology 2008 (ICP 2008). ICP 2008 Berlin: the German Federation of Psychological Associations, under the auspices of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS)
  • Sklad, M., (2007). The role of motivation in the construction of retrospective opinions. International Congress Cognition Emotion Motivation. Integrating Towards A Better Understanding Of  Performance, Hammamet , Tunisia: EDIPS laboratory (Team « Cognition & Learning »), the psychology department of the faculty of Human and Social Sciences and the Education Sciences department of the High Institute of Education and Continuous Training, in association with ATPU (the Tunisian Association of the Academic Pedagogy) and CNIPRE (National Center of Pedagogic Innovation and Educational Research)