Members

Professors Associate professors Postdocs Juniors Other members

IRTIS members are researchers at the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Our members' institutional background covers a wide range of workplaces at Masaryk University, namely:


Team management

 


Team members

 

Professors


  • online risks and opportunities for children and adolescents
  • online identities
  • virtual relationships
  • online addiction
  • IT security from perspective of users
  • online research methods
  • well-being
  • job performance
  • ICT use
  • recovery
  • psychological capital
  • gamification

Associate professors (docents)


  • e-mental health
  • psychotherapy research and assessment in eating disorders
  • discrimination, stigma, and representation of disadvantaged groups
  • adolescents' online health information-seeking behaviors
  • online aggression
  • cyberbullying 
  • online communities
  • self-disclosure online
  • credibility of online information
  • online civic engagement
  • online interaction risks in adolescent’s internet use
  • empathy in online and offline contexts
  • moral courage, bystander and prosocial behavior
  • teaching-learning processes with digital media, teacher training
  • interest and career orientation for STEM subjects
  • ethics in research with children and adolescents

Visiting professors


  • youth risky decision making and (online) risk behavior (especially substance use & delinquency)
  • exposure to (online) risky behaviors
  • social influences (parent, peers, and sibling influences) on youth development
  • impulsivity and self-control
  • child rights
  • theory development
  • cross-national and ethnic differences

Postdoc researchers


  • validation of cross-cultural scales
  • cross-cultural perception and cognition
  • eye-tracking
  • parental mediation
  • online relationships
  • meeting online strangers offline
  • online research methodology
  • online security
  • positive psychology
  • recovery experience
  • wellbeing
  • job performance
  • gamification
  • statistics and psychometrics
  • civic engagement
  • political socialization
  • cross-cultural research
  • statistics and psychometrics
  • video games and video streaming research
  • interactions between adolescents and unknown people from the internet
  • ICTs and adolescent well-being
  • political participation
  • cross-cutting discussions
  • incivility
  • intolerance
  • assistive technologies
  • modelling and simulation
  • machine learning
  • media multitasking
  • cognitive & affective factors in online interaction
  • online aggression
  • online research methods
  • well-being
  • media, adolescent sleep and well-being
  • models of journalism in Czech press
  • analysis of media and communication content

Junior researchers


  • eye tracking
  • response processes
  • free energy principle by Karl Friston
  • statistics and psychometrics
  • gamification
  • exceptional giftedness
  • digital parenting
  • parental mediation
  • adolescents' information management strategies
  • work-related stress of journalists
  • weather and decision-making
  • voting behaviour
  • political participation
  • social media and body image
  • body shaming online
  • anonymity in the computer-mediated communication
  • media effects on well-being
  • development of measuring scales
  • video games
  • measurement of gaming experience
  • online video streaming
  • innovative data collection methods
  • data mining & result aggregation
  • ICTs and adolescent well-being
  • literature review and theory synthesis
  • recovery processes
  • digital well-being
  • coaching
  • career adaptability
  • digital skills of children and adolescents
  • sharenting, AI and online privacy
  • e-health literacy
  • risky and addictive behavior
  • research application in public policy
  • efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions
  • psychology of leadership
  • anonymity in online communication

Other members


Collaborators


  • digital technologies and eating disorders
  • ICTs and psychotherapy
  • health psychology
  • psychology of physical activity
  • well-being/quality of life
  • health behavior change
  • adult development and aging
  • women's health
  • mind-body modalities (e.g., yoga)
  • bullying (online, social exclusion, identity-based)
  • online aggression
  • social inequality
  • stereotyping and discrimination
  • well-being
  • cross-national comparisons
  • ICTs and well-being
  • ICTs and health behaviours
  • Cognitive-behavioural theory
  • usable security
  • psychology of physical activity
  • health psychology
  • political communication
  • activism
  • political participation
  • new media
  • campaigns
  • new media users and audiences
  • audience ethnography
  • media and technological subcultures
  • media in civic and political participation
  • political psychology
  • civic and political socialization in adolescence and young adulthood

Previous irtis members

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