Centres and Laboratories – Filozofski Fakultet u Rijeci

Centre for iconographic studies (CIS)

Contact details

Telephone: +385 (0)51 265 776
E-mail: cis@ffri.uniri.hr

Director: Prof. Marina Vicelja-Matijašić
- e-mail: mvicelja@ffri.uniri.hr
Expert Assistant: Antonia Žurga
- e-mail: cis@ffri.uniri.hr
Scientific Team:
- Assist. Prof. Danko Dujmović
  - e-mail: ddujmovic@ffri.uniri.hr
- Dr. Nikolina Belošević
  - e-mail: nikolina.belosevic@ffri.uniri.hr

Further information about the work of the Centre can be found on: http://cis.ffri.hr/hr/

About the Centre for Iconographic Studies

The Centre for Iconographic Studies (CIS) was founded in January 2010 as an academic centre at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka.

The CIS promotes iconography and iconology using interdisciplinary perspectives from the visual arts. The centre’s main aim is to research and present new methodological approaches in the interpretation of works of art. It also seeks to strengthen the discipline’s presence in undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral study programmes.

The main activities of the Centre for Iconographic studies are:

Establishing a platform for academic research in Croatia (promoting iconographic and iconological studies in the national framework) and networking with other international institutions and scholars.
Organising scientific conferences, seminars and workshops, round tables, tribunals, and lectures.
Publishing: IKON – Journal of Iconographic Studies, monographs, studies, databases and other publications, e-publishing.
Organising life-long learning seminars, workshops, round tables, panels, and lectures.
Launching projects that have a particular focus on international collaborations and networking.
Organising summer courses/schools, workshops, and other forms of lifelong learning.
Establishing a platform for academics and researchers in Croatia (promoting iconographic studies nationally) and establishing connections with international institutions and scholars (presenting Croatian academics and projects internationally)
Including early career researchers and students in the work of the centre.

The Centre publishes IKON, which is published annually, and is a collection of the papers that are presented at the annual conference on Iconographic studies. The Centre has published a total of fifteen editions. IKON is indexed in the Web of Science, SCOPUS, and Erich Int.

Since 2022, IKON has a special series for iconography and cultural iconology at Brepols Publisher.

Centre for Language Research

Contact Details

Telephone: +385 (0)51 265-704
E-mail: bperak@uniri.hr

Director of the Centre for Language Research: Assist. Prof. Benedikt Perak
- e-mail: bperak@uniri.hr
Assistant Director of the Centre for Language Research: Assoc. Prof. Mihaela Matešić
- e-mail: mihaela.matesic@ffri.uniri.hr

Further information about the centre’s activities can be found on: https://cji.uniri.hr/

About the Centre for Language Research

The Centre for Language Research is a multidisciplinary centre that focuses on language research from different disciplinary perspectives in the humanities and social sciences. The centre was founded in March 2015. It aims to facilitate cooperation between researchers who work at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, who have a shared interest in the phenomena of language and multidisciplinary research. Their collaboration on joint projects broadens the study of languages at the University of Rijeka and in Croatia.

The main aims of the Centre for Language Research are:

Developing national collaborations with university departments and centres that focus on language research.
Improving language research in Croatia in collaboration with international scientific institutions.
Organizing international scientific conferences and guest lectures.
Conducting summer workshops and programmes for the further education of researchers.
Promoting researcher mobility.
Promoting linguistic diversity in Croatia through the study of Croatian dialects, minority languages, endangered languages, and less studied languages spoken in Croatia, as well as multilingualism.
Developing a quantitative approach to language research in Croatia using corpus research methodologies and the compilation of linguistic corpora.
Using the methods of language documentation and archiving, as well as descriptive linguistics and linguistic typology as a part of linguistic research in Croatia.
Using interdisciplinary methods when studying how cultural patterns of communication are formed.
Developing infrastructure for the collection, processing, and representation of language data.
Developing and implementing language education programs

Centre for Teacher Education (CTE)

Head of the Centre for Teacher Education

Prof. Irena Vodopija-Krstanović, PhD (Department of English Studies)
Email: irena.vodopija@ffri.uniri.hr

Academic Board of the Centre for Teacher Education

Prof. Sofija Vrcelj, PhD (Department of Pedagogy)
Assoc. Prof. Siniša Kušić, PhD (Department of Pedagogy)
Assoc. Prof. Tamara Martinac Dorčić, PhD (Department of Psychology
Assoc. Prof. Barbara Rončević Zubković, PhD (Department of Psychology)
Assist. Prof. Barbara Španjol-Pandelo, PhD (Department of Art History)
Assist. Prof. Nataša Košuta, PhD (Department of German Studies)

Contact information

Centre for Teacher Education

Email: con@ffri.uniri.hr
Postal address:
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Sveučilišna avenija 4
51000 Rijeka
Croatia

Administrative Secretary of the Centre for Teacher Education

Gordana Bošnjaković
Email: gordana.bosnjakovic@ffri.uniri.hr
Telephone: +385 51 265 708

Supplementary Teacher Education Program (STEP)

Email: dppo@ffri.uniri.hr

About the Centre for Teacher Education

The Centre for Teacher Education organises educational programmes in teaching competences at the undergraduate and graduate levels of teacher education, as well as lifelong learning programmes at all levels of education.

The centre’s main activities are:

Planning, organising, and holding courses on teaching competences, as prescribed by the Teaching Module at the University of Rijeka.
Planning, organising, and holding the Supplementary Teacher Education Programme.
Planning, organising, and holding specialist study programmes for teachers at all education levels.
Planning, organising, and holding short lifelong learning courses.
Organising the evaluation of specific competences (language skills, computer skills and others).
Organising seminars, workshops, round tables, panels, lectures, and summer schools.
Launching national and international projects in the fields of teacher education and lifelong learning.

Educational Programmes for Teacher Education

Teaching Module (TM):

Other programmes organised by the Centre for Teacher Education

Teaching Competences in Higher Education:
- Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
- Quality Assurance in Higher Education
- Evaluating knowledge
- Critical Thinking
- Contemporary Teaching Methods

Documents of the Centre for Teacher Education (in Croatian)

Centre for Women’s Studies

Contact Details

Telephone: +385 (0)51 265 635
Head of the Centre for Women’s Studies: dr. sc. Nadja Čekolj
- e-mail: nadja.cekolj@uniri.hr
Administrator of the Centre for Women’s Studies: Jelena Androić
- e-mail: jandroic@gmail.com

Further information about the Centre for Women’s Studies can be found on: https://czs.uniri.hr/

About the Centre for Women’s Studies

The Centre for Women’s Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka officially opened on March 1^st, 2016. The centre is a scientific-research platform and meeting place for people working in academia, art and civil society on topics related to feminism, gender, critical and sexuality theory.

The Centre for Women’s Studies also offers the opportunity for collaboration between students, researchers, scientists, artists, civil society stakeholders and engaged citizens whose work and interest is based on, or touches upon, feminist and gender theories and theories of sexuality and gender identities. The Centre strives to strengthen the positive image of the role of scientific knowledge in creating a society of equal opportunities for all citizens, and to spread awareness of the importance of gender equality, respect for women’s human rights and the rights of all endangered (vulnerable) minorities.

The main aims of the Centre for Women’s Studies are:

Sharing information, connecting, and collaborating between researchers at the faculty whose research is based on, or uses feminist and gender theories and theories of sexuality and sexual/gender identities, regardless of discipline or field of knowledge.
Promoting a multi- and interdisciplinary approach to research at the faculty, strengthening interdepartmental collaboration, as well as collaboration between different bodies at the University of Rijeka.
Connecting members of the Centre with national and international researchers and artists and developing collaborations with external institutions. This is with the aim of engaging in joint projects and improving research at the faculty.
Facilitating the joint presentation and promotion of research on feminist and gender theories of sexuality and sexual/gender identities, carried out by researchers at the faculty with the aim of increasing the visibility and dissemination of this work to national and international audiences.
Launching a multi- and interdisciplinary online journal, translating relevant, but previously unavailable, international authors, as well as the publication of monographs and edited collections by national researchers.
Facilitating the development of courses and/or the creation of educational programmes at undergraduate, graduate and/or postgraduate levels.

Rijeka School of Croatian Studies

Contact Details

School Director: Assist. Prof. Željka Macan
- e-mail: zmacan@uniri.hr
Assistant School Director: Sandra Jukić, Reader
- e-mail: sandra.jukic@ffri.uniri.hr

Further information about the school’s activities can be found on: http://rks.ffri.hr/hr/

About the Rijeka School of Croatian Studies

The Rijeka School of Croatian Studies promotes knowledge of Croatian language, literature, and culture in an international framework, develops modern teaching methods for teaching Croatian as a second or foreign language, promotes mobility and organises exams to check the knowledge of Croatian as a second or foreign language. Our goals include the production of standardised evaluation materials and teaching manuals, the organisation of scientific and professional meetings, the initiation of professional, teaching, translation, and other projects for the promotion of the Croatian language, literature and culture abroad. The school also works with other institutions in Croatia and abroad that share the same goals, with Croatian language lecturers at international universities and other scientific institutions and with national and foreign scientists, and also establishes connections with Croatian expatriates.

Centre for the Research of the Medieval Heritage of the Adriatic – RiMAH

Contact Details

e-mail: rimah@ffri.uniri.hr

Further information about the centre’s work can be found on: www.rimah.uniri.hr

About the Centre for the Research of the Medieval Heritage of the Adriatic – RiMAH

The Centre carries out research and educational activities in the field of medieval studies, with a particular focus on transdisciplinary research into the medieval Adriatic. It also works on the digitisation of phenomena from cultural history, manuscript studies (codicology, palaeography and fragmentology), hagiography and fine arts in the medieval Adriatic.

The Centre’s activities are focused on the development and implementation of a variety of programmes and projects. These programmes and projects are primarily focused on the research of tangible and intangible cultural heritage of the medieval Adriatic, as well as the reconstruction, preservation, presentation, and revaluation of medieval (historical, cultural, artistic and sociological) phenomena using different innovative methods and modern technologies.

The centre engages in advanced research in the humanities into so-called horizontal topics in the medieval Adriatic region, such as gender equality, human rights, social responsibility, identity, etc. By examining the past, the centre aims to critically question the present in order to benefit citizens in the future.

The main aims of the centre are:

Conducting research in the field of medieval studies.
Facilitating the transfer of knowledge through the creation of knowledge bases.
Engaging in the digitisation of medieval tangible and intangible heritage of the Adriatic,
Encouraging student practice and conducting teaching in the field in order to develop and acquire competences in medieval studies in regular faculty teaching programmes.
Sharing the results of research on the Medieval period with other interested scholars.
Implementing professional training programmes, as well as lifelong education and training programmes related to the medieval heritage of the Adriatic.
Encouraging the professional development of the members and associates of the centre through project activities.
Popularising medieval research as socially relevant research, especially for the local community.

Centre for Applied Psychology

Contact details

Telephone: +385 (0)51 265 751, +385 (0)51 265 761
E-mail: cpp@ffri.uniri.hr

Director of the Centre for Applied Psychology: Prof. Zoran Sušanj
- zoran.susanj@ffri.uniri.hr;
- +385 (0)51 265 751
Administrator of the Centre for Applied Psychology: Irena Miletić, mag. ing. comp.
- irena.miletic@ffri.uniri.hr,
- +385 (0)51 265 761

Associates of the Centre of Applied Psychology

Members of the Department of Psychology

Prof. Svjetlana Kolić-Vehovec
- svjetlanakv@ffri.uniri.hr
Prof. Sanja Smojver-Ažić
- sanja.smojver.azic@ffri.uniri.hr
Prof. Zoran Susanj
- zoran.susanj@ffri.uniri.hr
Assoc. Prof. Barbara Kalebić Maglica
- barbarakm@ffri.uniri.hr
Assoc. Prof. Tamara Martinac Dorčić
- tamaramd@ffri.uniri.hr
Assoc. Prof. Barbara Rončević Zubković
- barbararz@ffri.uniri.hr
Assoc. Prof. Petra Anić
- panic@ffri.uniri.hr
Assoc. Prof. Tamara Mohorić
- tmohoric@ffri.uniri.hr
Assoc. Prof. Rosanda Pahljina-Reinić
- rosanda.pahljina-reinic@ffri.uniri.hr
Bažon Martina, M.A.
- mdidovic@ffri.uniri.hr
Irena Miletić, M.Eng.
- irenam@ffri.uniri.hr

External Associates – Previous Employees

Mehić Nermina
Vuković Anja
Močibob Maja
Pahljina-Reinić Rosanda
Zubić Nikoleta
Đorić Ana
Brandić Vanja

Further information about the Centre’s work and activities can be found on: https://www.ffri.hr/psihologija/centar-za-primijenjenu-psihologiju.html

About the Centre for Applied Psychology

The Centre for Applied Psychology was founded in 2014 with the aim of providing professional psychological services, and is intended for individuals, groups, organisations, and the wider community. The centre offers programmes and projects related to research, education, prevention, counselling, project evaluation, and similar, primarily in the applied fields of educational, organisational, and clinical psychology. It also aims to apply scientific knowledge from the fields of general psychology and methodology in these areas.

Centre for Interdisciplinary Research of Language, Literature and Culture – Rijeka School of Stylistics

Contact Details

Telephone: +385 (0)51 265-660 (Department of Croatian Studies – Secretary)
E-mail: riss@ffri.uniri.hr

Director of the Rijeka School of Stylistics: Prof. Marina Biti
- e-mail: marina.biti@ffri.uniri.hr
Assistant Director of the Rijeka School of Stylistics: Assoc. Prof. Dejan Durić
- e-mail: dejan.duric@ffri.uniri.hr
Administrator: Lea Golub
- e-mail: lea.golub@ffri.uniri.hr
Collaborators:
- Assoc. Prof. Danijela Marot Kiš
  - e-mail: danijela.marot.kis@ffri.uniri.hr
- Assist. Prof. Cecilija Jurčić Katunar
  - e-mail: cjkatunar@ffri.uniri.hr
- Dr. Saša Stanić
  - e-mail: sasa.stanic@ffri.uniri.hr

Further information about the Rijeka School of Stylistics can be found on: http://riss.uniri.hr

About the Rijeka School of Stylistics

The Rijeka School of Stylistics was founded by the Department of Croatian Studies in April 2022. The Rijeka School of Stylistics works on issues of style and stylistics, which it studies in the fields of language, literature, and culture, and fosters interdisciplinary openness in philological research. It initiates research and publishing projects and initiates, independently and/or in synergy with the Department of Croatian Studies, the launch of stylistically oriented educational programmes.

The objectives of the Rijeka School of Stylistics are:

To carry out and publish interdisciplinary research that focuses on the relationship between language, literature, and culture.
To create knowledge bases focused on knowledge transfer.
To promote the networking of researchers within the field as well as on the networking of knowledge bases.
To involve students in the centre’s research activities in ways appropriate to their study programmes, with an emphasis on developing their competences for the future, and in active cooperation with the Department of Croatian Studies.
To implement professional training and lifelong educational programmes in the field of stylistics.
To initiate other specialist teaching programmes at the Department of Croatian Studies that cover the centre’s main areas of interest that will complement the teaching and research work of the Department, and also to supervise their implementation in synergy with the Department and external collaborators of the Centre and the Department of Croatian Studies.
To nurture the professional development of the centre’s members and associates through project activities.
To popularise stylistics as an academic discipline, as well as academic research in general and interdisciplinary approaches to research.

Centre for Theoretical and Critical Research

Contacts

Phone: +385 (0)51 265-692 (Department of Cultural Studies – secretariat)
e-mail: ctk@ffri.uniri.hr
Coordinator of the Centre: Assist. Prof. Ozren Pupovac
- e-mail: ozren.pupovac@ffri.uniri.hr
Assistant Coordinator of the Centre: Prof. Hajrudin Hromadžić
e-mail: hhromadzic@ffri.uniri.hr

Associates

Assoc. Prof. Sarah Czerny
- e-mail: sczerny@ffri.uniri.hr
Ante Jerić
- e-mail: ante.jeric@ffri.uniri.hr
Prof. Aleksandar Mijatović
- e-mail: aleksandar.mijatovic@ffri.uniri.hr
Assoc. Prof. Antonija Primorac
- e-mail: antonija.primorac@ffri.uniri.hr
Assist. Prof.. Toni Prug
- e-mail: toni.prug@ffri.uniri.hr
Assist. Prof. Boris Ružić
- e-mail: bruzic@ffri.uniri.hr
Dr. Saša Stanić
- e-mail: sasa.stanic@ffri.uniri.hr

About the Centre for Theoretical and Critical Research

The Centre aims to bring together diverse theoretical research of social, cultural and historical phenomena, evoking the diversity of critical approaches and research models formulated within the humanities and social sciences of the 20th and 21st centuries – from Critical Theory to (post)structuralism, from psychoanalysis to feminist and gender theories, from cultural and media studies to Marxist philosophy and political theory, but also postcolonial theory, from theory of literature to critical discourse analysis, and others.

The Centre is founded upon three main axes of research: social, political and cultural theory; literary theory and critique; and theory of art and discourse.

The research interests of the members of the Centre thus cover a broad set of approaches and objects which have been, within these fundamental orientations, formulated through diverse specificities: from visual culture to contemporary media, from the constitution of the subject to the critical examination of the foundation of science, from questions of translation, reading and narration, to the constitution of discourses and power, from questions of equality to those of democracy in the digital age, from the phenomena of everyday experience to the nascence of artistic forms – including many others.

The Centre generally attempts to establish a pluralistic space for formulating and elaborating critical and innovative research initiatives, as well as through a discussion and dissemination of their results, pointing towards the broader public relevance of such research, in dialogue and cooperation with non-institutional organisations and initiatives.

The goals of the Centre’s activities are:

to establish a collaborative research platform which unites particular interests and fields of activity of members of different departments at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, whose work touches upon social, political and cultural theory, literary theory and discourse analysis, theoretical psychoanalysis and the theory of the image, media theory, as well as related theoretical approaches and orientations;
to facilitate research initiatives beyond disciplinary boundaries, in the sense of inter- or multidisciplinarity, but also antidisciplinarity;
to establish links with other related research centres or organisations, both institutional and extra-institutional, both at the local and international level, facilitating scientific collaboration and exchange;
to establish a platform for public events (conferences and symposia, workshops and lectures, etc.) facilitating a broader visibility of the said research orientations;
to connect existing research and teaching orientations and programmes between different departments of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, and to establish bases for collaborative teaching programmes beyond existing disciplinary divisions;
the encourage publishing projects through translations, the editing of collected volumes as well as the facilitation of the publication of monographs of researchers associated with the Centre;
to establish institutional bases for engaged collaborative public and academic work, as well as the create a space for a public critical debate of relevant societal and political topics and themes.

Laboratory for Experimental Psychology

The Laboratory for Experimental Psychology is a unit at the Department of Psychology that has the status of a departmental section. All members of the laboratory are also members of the university’s Centre for Mind and Behaviour (CMB), which is an interdepartmental and interfaculty centre.

Contact Details

Laboratory Director: Assist. Prof. Valnea Žauhar
- e-mail: vzauhar@ffri.uniri.hr
- telephone: +385 (0)51 265 780
Assistant Laboratory Director: Prof. Dražen Domijan
- e- mail: ddomijan@ffri.uniri.hr

Further information about the Laboratory for Experimental Psychology can be found on: https://www.ffri.hr/psihologija/laboratorij-za-eksperimentalnu-psihologiju.html

The laboratory is a section of the Department of Psychology and collaborates with the Centre for Mind and Behaviour (CMB) – more information at: cmb.uniri.hr

About the Laboratory for Experimental Psychology

The Laboratory for Experimental Psychology engages in experimental research into basic emotional, cognitive, perceptual, and psychophysiological processes, as well as individual differences in the development of these processes. It is located at the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, and works with members of the Department of Psychology, and other researchers from Croatia and internationally. Although the need to establish such a laboratory arose as early as 2004, when the first provisional laboratory for measuring psychophysiological parameters was set up at the Rectorate of the University of Rijeka, the Laboratory for Experimental Psychology was formally established in 2011, when it was given new space at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Due to technical constraints, the laboratory currently uses only one small room at the faculty, but work is currently underway to equip a space that will be part of the university’s Centre for Mind and Behaviour Research. The laboratory uses state-of-the-art equipment for the presentation of various visual, auditory, and olfactory stimuli, as well as for measuring behavioural and physiological parameters such as reaction time, eye movements, cardiovascular parameters, electrodermal activation, body temperature, and breathing.

The main activities of the laboratory are:

Conducting research in the fields of cognitive psychology, perception, emotions, motivation, personality, biological psychology, psychophysiology, and others.
Offering teaching demonstrations.
Providing support in the writing of graduate theses and doctoral dissertations.
Promoting science.

Laboratory for the Research of Cultural Complexity

Contact Information

Telephone: +385 (0)51 265-704, +385 (0)98 622 793
E-mail: bperak@uniri.hr

Laboratory Director: Assist. Prof. Benedikt Perak
- e-mail: bperak@uniri.hr
Assistant Laboratory Director’s:
- Prof. Diana Grgurić
  - e-mail: dgrguric@ffri.hr
- Prof. Vjeran Pavlaković
  - e-mail: vjeranp@gmail.com
Collaborators:
- Assist. Prof. Benedikt Perak
  - e-mail: bperak@uniri.hr
- Prof. Diana Grgurić
  - e-mail: dgrguric@ffri.hr
- Assist. Prof. Tajana Ban Kirigin
  - bank@uniri.hr
- Assist. Prof. Saša Potočnjak
  - spotocnjak@ffri.com
- Prof. Vjeran Pavlaković
  - e-mail: vjeranp@gmail.com
- Assist. Prof. Sanda Bujačić Babić
  - sbujacic@math.uniri.hr
- Assoc. Prof. Mihaela Matešić
  - mmatesic@ffri.hr
- Assoc. Prof. Antonija Primorac
  - antonija.primorac@gmail.com
External Collaborators
- Damir Medved
  - damir.medved@bezgranica.hr
Students and alumni
- Lucija Sučić
- Katarina Damčević
- Korina Baretić

Further information about the laboratory can be found here: https://cultstud.ffri.hr/?p=541, Laboratorij za istraživanje kulturne složenosti.pptx

About the Laboratory for the Research of Cultural Complexity

The laboratory conducts interdisciplinary scientific research on culture as a complex emergent system that is created through the interaction of material, biological, psychological, and socio-cultural processes.

Research areas include: mapping and modelling of the interaction of psychological features of perception, affective states and cognitive processes, the process of individual and group identity formation, networks of social interactions, interpretation of symbolic codes, the structure of language and communication processes, the organization of social institutions and the emergence of cultural models, and the interactions of ecological and technological systems. Particular importance is placed on the synchronic and diachronic analysis of local cultural systems, including the influence of cross-cultural and global interactions.

The main aims of the Laboratory are:

Establishing an infrastructure to conduct interdisciplinary scientific research of complex cultural phenomena in the social sciences, humanities, technical and natural sciences.
Offering support in scientific research projects.
Educating early career researchers and doctoral students who are interested in developing empirical approaches, applying the methodologies and tools of digital humanities, computer processing of natural language, machine learning and data mining.
Disseminating research into educational practices in order to modernise educational curricula.