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Val Tadic currently holds a post of an Associate Professor of Psychology at University of Greenwich within the School of Human Sciences. She has recently been appointed as the Centre Lead for the Institute of Lifecourse Development Centre for Vulnerable Children and Families at University of Greenwich. Before this, she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow within the Population, Policy and Practice Programme at UCL Great Ormond Street (GOS) Institute of Child Health in London.
Val’s academic expertise and interests are at the intersection of developmental psychology and health services research. She has worked on several interdisciplinary, applied research projects, drawing on multidisciplinary collaborations across social and population health sciences and clinical practice, combining qualitative and quantitative research methods and drawing on public and patient involvement in her research.
Val’s research is concerned with improving quality of life of children and young people with disabilities and/or chronic illness, with a primary focus on development and wellbeing of children and young people with visual impairment. Her PhD, which she completed at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2009, examined development of social communication and social cognition in children with early onset and severe visual impairment. Her postdoctoral research centred on understanding and measuring the impact of visual impairment on children and young people, focusing on the visually impaired child’s/young person’s lived experience and using this to inform development of child-appropriate questionnaires (patient-reported outcome measures or PROMs) to measure their quality of life and functional vision from their perspective.
Her current interests centre around a) application of such measures in professional practice and b) identification and understanding of the predictive factors and resilience mechanisms that shape quality of life outcomes for children and young visual impairment and their families with a view to identifying the targets for family-oriented interventions.
Val teaches topic in Developmental, Clinical and Health Psychology on undergraduate and postgraduate Psychology programmes at University of Greenwich.
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