Brown Bag—Self-Regulation in Children and their Caregivers

This SCOPE Brown Bag Lecture features Jelena Obradovic, Project Director at the Stanford Project on Adaptation and Resilience in Kids (SPARK). The SPARK Lab seeks to understand how adversity influences children's adaptation across various domains of functioning, ranging from school engagement and academic competence to positive peer relationships and prosocial behaviors. 

Dr. Obradovic is an assistant professor at Stanford University in the Developmental and Psychological Sciences program at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Jelena received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota, under the supervision of Dr. Ann Masten. She was a Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia, working with Dr. Tom Boyce at the Human Early Learning Partnership. She was a junior fellow in the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research’s Experience-based Brain and Biological Development Program. She is currently a William T. Grant Foundation Scholar and is a recipient of the Society for Research in Child Development Early Career Research Contribution Award. Together with her collaborators, Jelena studies processes that contribute to resilience in diverse groups of children, including immigrant youth, inner-city children from high-risk, low-income backgrounds, and children living in rural Pakistan.