Blanka Bogunović, PhD
Blanka Bogunović, Ph.D. in Psychology and B.A. in Music Performance (Flute), Senior Research Associate and CTA, is affiliated as Full Professor of Psychology and Education Science at the Faculty of Music, University of Arts. She teaches on undergraduate, master and doctoral study levels. She lectures Psychology of Music at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology (Ph.D. level) and is a regular guest lecturer at the Music Academy, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina (since 2009) and at the Faculty of Philology and Arts, University of Kragujevac (2015-2020). Her research interests are psychological aspects of giftedness in music and education of musically talented, music performance skills development, emotional and creative processes in making music, and interdisciplinary studies in music.
Dr. Blanka Bogunović is the author of the book Musical Talent and Successfulness (2008/2010) that received the National Award “Dr. Borislav Stevanović” for contribution to Psychology in Serbia (2009), co-author of the monograph Interdisciplinary approach to music: Listening, performing, composing (2014) and co-editor of the book School and Family Cooperation (2007). She publishes extensively in national and international journals and proceedings and gives presentations in Serbia and abroad. Dr. Bogunović was president of the Music Psychology Section at Serbian Psychological Association (2006 – 2016) when it got the prize “Ljuba Stojić” for contribution to the development of the psychology profession (2012).
Prof. Bogunović is active in international organizations. She is ECHA Correspondent for Serbia (2013-2014, 2017-2020) and ESCOM Representative for Serbia (since 2018), as well as a member of the Executive Council of ESCOM (since 2020). Prof. Bogunović was the head of the Program and Organizational Committees of the 1st International Conference Psychology and Music – Interdisciplinary Encounters in Belgrade 2019. She is founder and coordinator of the Regional Network Psychology and Music (RNPaM) since 2020.
Relevant links:
www.researchgate.net/profile/Blanka_Bogunovic
ESCOM Representative for Serbia; ESCOM European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music
https://psihologijaimuzika2019.wordpress.com/regionalna-mreza-psihologija-i-muzika/