University of Zagreb
Faculty of Kinesiology
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Kinesiology
Title: Full professor
integrated undergraduate and graduate
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Renata Barić was born on 26th July 1972. She graduated at Faculty of Kinesiology in Zagreb in 1996 and finished her Masters at the same faculty on 2001. Also, she graduated psychology at department of Psychology at Faculty of Arts and finished her Masters in psychology at Department of psychology, Faculty of Arts at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She finished her PhD study on psychology at the same University in 2007. Today she is a professor at Faculty of Kinesiology in Zagreb. She is the author of more than 200 scientific and professional papers. Her field of scientific interest are motivation, leadership in sport, motor learning and psychological preparation of athletes. She is a initiator and a president of program committee of Sport psychology symposium which every two year assembles sport psychologists from Croatia and wider region. She was a leader or leader of partner institution on few scientific projects. Also, she is the founder and chief of the Laboratory for sport psychology and diagnostics at the Institute of Kinesiology and a head of Section for Sport and Exercise Psychology at the Croatian Psychological Association.
Beside her academic and scientific activities, she uses her professional knowledge in everyday sport practice. She is a licenced sport psychologist, working with numerous elite, young and perspective athletes from different sport disciplines in the field of psychological preparation. She worked as a sport psychologist within rowing team for Olympic games London 2012 (silver), water-polo and shooting for Rio 2016 (silver) and water polo team and gymnast world champion for Tokyo 2021 (silver). Her athletes are world champions, Olympic and European championship medallists. She writes popular articles about sport psychology and book chapters, and presents the results of her professional work in different conferences and professional meetings. She is licensed cognitive-behavioural therapist, and she recently spreads her interest and education to clinical sport psychology. From 2011 she is a president of Sport psychology section within Croatian Psychological Association.
She won a scholarship from Croatian Ministry for Science in Education for doctoral study abroad. In 2005 she won a 1st prize for the best paper presented orally on 4th International scientific conference of Kinesiology. In 2015 Croatian psychological association awarded her a prize for a significant contribution to development to applied psychology in Croatia.
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