Рrofessor. R.H.Gadirova

Professor of Psychology

Tel: w: (994-12) 439-01-12;

E-mail: rena_kadirova@yahoo.com

Education

Psychology  Baku  State University , 1976
Psychology   Baku  State University , 1994

D.Sc. Psychology   Baku  State University , 2009

Positions Held

1977-1999 - Baku State University, Senior Lecturer

1999 - 2013 - Baku State University, Assistant-Professor

2013-present - Baku State University, Full Professor

Courses taught: “General Psychology”, “The psychology of communication”, “Comparative psychology and animal behavior”, “Cognitive Psychology”, Psychology of Religion”

Research interests: national, religious and language identity formation in children and adolescents,  intergroup conflicts and reconciliation, narrative psychology and reading psychology.

Some Grants and Sponsored Research

1998  - 2001 - The Development of National, Ethnolinguistic and Religious Identity among Children and Adolescents Living in the NIS, supported by INTAS (INTAS-OPEN-97-1363).

“2005 NGO Sustainability Index Assessment”, USAID START (Strategic Technical Assistance for Results with Training) Participant Training Project, World Learning/Azerbaijan, 2005, Facilitator;

UNICEF – AZERBAIJAN

1999-2000 Coping with Stress and Trauma  training program

ISAR-Azerbaijan

Psychological help to distressed children;

Psychosocial rehabilitation of children with stress & trauma.   1995-1997.

UNICEF – AZERBAIJAN

1992-1994 Communicative skills and Personality development training program for teachers;

BOOKS

Национальная идентичность азербайджан­ских детей и подростков: cоциальнo -психологический анализ. (National identity of Azerbaijani children and adolescents).   Кавказ. Баку, 2007, 245p. (In Russian);

Publications in English  relevant to the proposed activity

2018

Garagozov R., Gadirova, R. Narrative intervention in interethnic conflict. Political Psychology.doi 10.1111/pops.12531