Dr Maša Popovac

Biography

Maša has experience working as a researcher at an organisation focused on violence prevention in South Africa, where she became interested in young people’s experiences of online aggression. Her PhD research focused on cyberaggression, cyberbullying and other online risk experiences among adolescents (such as sexting, exposure to harmful content, and contact with strangers) in the UK and South Africa. She completed her PhD at the University of Buckingham in 2016. During her PhD, Maša was a visiting lecturer in Psychology and became a full-time lecturer in the Department in January 2017. She teaches the core Developmental Psychology module and has also developed and teaches the Cyberpsychology module offered at the University. She is currently also collaborating on a range of research projects on gaming, online relationship formation, and online health behaviours and support seeking.

Research Interest

Her primary research interest is in exploring behaviours, motivations, psychological processes and the impact of technology on individuals both online and offline. Her current work centres on young people’s online risk experiences as well as on developing and implementing effective intervention and prevention strategies to address cyberbullying that targets adolescents, parents and schools