doc. PaedDr. Lada Kaliská, PhD.
Ružová 13
974 11 Banská Bystrica
Slovensko
- Office: C 101
- Phone: +421 48 446 4717
- E-mail: [email protected]
Professional characteristics
She has been working at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica since 2005. Since 2013 she has served as Deputy Head of the Department of Psychology and from November 2020 to April 2021 she was in charge of the Department. Since April 2021, she has been the Vice-Dean for Science, Research, Arts and International Relations at the Faculty of Psychology of the MBU.
Since 2016, she has been the guarantor of the bachelor's degree in psychology. At the department she provides compulsory, obligatory elective and elective courses in the field of psychology, in the field of Educational Psychology, as well as in the teacher´s training for teachers. She is also a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and coordinates Erasmus incoming and outcoming mobility for both students and teachers in the department. She is a member of the Faculty Working Group for the Implementation of Human Resource Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R).
Her research, teaching and publishing activities focus on the determinants of individual experiences, behaviour and performance in the school environment. She has conducted research on student and adult learning styles. Since 2008, she has focused her attention on the "multiplicity" of perceptions of the construct of intelligence, where she has explored the concept of multiple, moral and emotional intelligence, which has been financially supported by two VEGA projects. For more than 10 years, she has been validating the trait emotional intelligence construct in collaboration with K.V. Petrides, University College London, UK. She has successfully led 7 scientific research or application projects in the position of project leader or deputy project leader, in total she has participated in the solution of 17 projects. She was the representative of 3 projects that were awarded as projects that achieved excellent results. She is the author and co-author of 18 book publications (9 scientific monographs, 7 pedagogical textbooks and 2 professional publications), 87 scientific papers (of which 56 foreign and 9 registered in CCC, WOS or SCOPUS databases). He has 221 citations for his works, of which 123 are foreign (49 registered in foreign citation indexes WOS and SCOPUS). Since 2017, she has been cooperating successfully with prof. John Pellitteri from City University of New York, Queens College in the United States. In 2021, their collective monograph was published in a foreign renowned publishing house Routledge Francis & Taylor Group https://www.routledge.com/Eastern-European-Perspectives-on-Emotional-Intelligence-Current-developments/Kaliska-Pellitteri/p/book/9780367673208, for which she received the Rector's Prize in 2022.
Shee is currently the National Coordinator for the International Society of Emotional Intelligence (ISEI) and also a regional guarantor in the ISEI for Central and Eastern Europe (http://www.emotionalintelligencesociety.org/boards-committees/), a member of the Psychology in Education section of the international European Society of Psychology Associations, EFPA - European Federation of Psychology Associations; a member of the Slovak Psychological Society (SPS) based at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and a vice-chair of the Association of School Psychology. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Current Trends in Educational Science and Practice published by PF UKF in Nitra, Slovakia, of the journal Školský psychológ/Školní psycholog, Brno: AŠP SR and CR, Literacy, Preliteracy and Education published by PF UK, Prague, Czech Republic; Annales psychologici published by the Institute of Psychology of the Faculty of Arts MU, Brno, The New Educational Review published by the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice (Poland), Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica (Slovak Republic) and University of Ostrava (Czech Republic).
Scientific-Educational Characteristic