I am a Senior Lecturer in Psychology. I joined the OU in August 2020, prior to which I worked as a postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, at the London School of Economics. I completed my PhD at the LSE in 2018. My PhD examined public ambivalence towards EU integration in a prospective member state (Serbia), focusing on understanding how concerns over culture, history and intergroup hierarchies impacted whether EU integration was seen as a positive political goal or whether it was perceived as harmful to the nation, its continuity and ability to 'be' Serbian.
My research centres around one broad, yet key, question: How is the content and boundary of a group identity constructed, and what does this mean for intergroup relations and perceptions of political change?
In examining this question I focus on a variety of constructs/processes:
1. Identity construction and group boundaries:
2. Intergroup relations and perceptions of political change:
“Am I really the priority here?”: help-seeking experiences of university students who self-harmed (2024-03)
Tickell, Alice; Fonagy, Peter; Hajdú, Katalin; Obradović, Sandra and Pilling, Stephen
BJPsych Open, 10, Article e40(2)
Active rejection or passive indifference? Mixed-methods evidence on national (dis)identification (2024)
Gligorić, Vukašin and Obradović, Sandra
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations ((Early access))
Mourning and orienting to the future in a liminal occasion: (re)defining British national identity after Queen Elizabeth II’s death (2024)
Obradović, Sandra; Martinez, Nuria; Dhanda, Nandita; Bode, Sidney; Ntontis, Evangelos; Bowe, Mhairi; Reicher, Stephen; Jurstakova, Klara; Kane, Jazmin and Vestergren, Sara
British Journal of Social Psychology ((In press))
In search of a Tawney Moment: income inequality, financial crisis and the mass media in the UK and the USA (2023)
McGovern, Patrick; Bauer, Martin and Obradovic, Sandra
The Sociological Review, 71(5) (pp. 1213-1233)
Recognising recognition: Self‐other dynamics in everyday encounters and experiences (2022-11-30)
Amer, Amena and Obradovic, Sandra
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 52(4) (pp. 550-562)
Dialogue with difference: Meta-representations in political dialogue and their role in constructing the ‘other’ (2022)
Obradović, Sandra and Draper, Holly
Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 10(1) (pp. 218-235)
Lessons From the UK's Lockdown: Discourse on Behavioural Science in Times of COVID-19 (2021-06)
Sanders, Jet G.; Tosi, Alessia; Obradovic, Sandra; Miligi, Ilaria and Delaney, Liam
Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 647348
The nation in context: How intergroup relations shape the discursive construction of identity continuity and discontinuity (2021-04)
Obradović, Sandra and Bowe, Mhairi
British Journal of Social Psychology, 60(2) (pp. 490-508)
The Attention Cycle of Income Inequality in the UK and US Print Media, 1990–2015 (2023)
Bauer, Martin W.; McGovern, Patrick and Obradovic, Sandra
In: Steve, Schifferes and Sophie, Knowles eds. The Media and Inequality. Routledge Research in Journalism (pp. 135-149)
ISBN : 9780367611729 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon