I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname

Janik Blaskova

I.2 - Name

Lenka

I.3 - Degrees

MA, PhD, CPsychol, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS)

I.4 - Year of birth

1982

I.5 - Name of the workplace

Institute of Applied Psychology, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences

I.6 - Address of the workplace

Mlynske luhy 4, Bratislava

I.7 - Position

Assistant Professor

I.8 - E-mail address

lenka.janik.blaskova@uniba.sk

I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff

https://fses.uniba.sk/pracoviska/ustavy/ustav-aplikovanej-psychologie/pracovnici-pracovnicky/lenka-janik-blaskova/

I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university

Psychology

I.11 - ORCID iD

0000-0003-3019-0880

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

University College Cork

II.b - Year

2013

II.c - Study field and programme

Diploma in Social and Psychological Health Studies

II.2 - Second degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

University College Cork

II.b - Year

2015

II.c - Study field and programme

MA Applied Psychology (Guidance Counselling)

II.3 - Third degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

University of Cambridge

II.b - Year

2022

II.c - Study field and programme

PhD in the Psychology of Education

II.4 - Associate professor

II.5 - Professor

II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position	III.b - Institution	III.c - Duration
Assistant Professor	Institute of Applied Psychology	2024 - present
Assistant Professor	University of Exeter	3.5 years
Research and Teaching Assistant	University of Cambridge	6 years
Consultant	Cambridge Assessment	3 months
Supervisor	VMware International	7.5 years

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

IV.a - Activity description, course name, other	IV.b - Name of the institution	IV.c - Year
Associate Fellowship	British Psychological Society	2024
Chartered Psychologist	British Psychological Society	2023
Mental Health First Aider	Mental Health First Aid UK, University of Exeter	2023
Fellowship Accredited by the Higher Education Academy	University of Exeter	2022
Group Facilitation	Gestalt Centre, London	2023
Teaching Associates’ Programme	University of Cambridge, Higher Education Academy (HEA)	2020
Empathic attunement to affect in Emotion Focused Therapy	Institute of therapy focused on emotion in Slovakia	2024

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

V.1.a - Name of the profile course	V.1.b - Study programme	V.1.c - Degree	V.1.d - Field of study
Bachelor thesis seminar 1 - Slovak & English versions	Applied Psychology	Bachelor	Psychology
Clinical Psychology - Slovak & English versions	Applied Psychology	Bachelor	Psychology
Master Thesis Seminar 2	Applied Psychology	Master	Psychology
Study advisor	Social and work psychology in English	Bachelor

V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year

V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year

V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses

V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses

V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)

V.4.2 - Number of defended theses

V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations

VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level

VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs

Janik Blaskova, L., & Gibson, J. L. (2021). Reviewing the link between language abilities and peer relations in children with developmental language disorder: The importance of children’s own perspectives. Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 6. https://doi.org/10.1177/23969415211021515

Janik Blaskova, L., & McLellan, R.W. (2017). Young people’s perceptions of wellbeing: The importance of peer relationships in Slovak schools. International Journal of School & Educational Psychology. 6(4), 279-291. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683603.2017.1342579

Hofmann, R., Arenge, G., Dickens, S., Marfan, J., Ryan, M., Tiong, N.D., Radia, B., & Janik Blaskova, L. (2021). The Covid-19 Learning Crisis as a Challenge and an Opportunity for Schools: An Evidence Review and Conceptual Synthesis of Research-Based Tools for Sustainable Change. Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 11, 39-66. https://doi.org/10.26529/cepsj.1133

Janik Blaskova, L., & Gibson, J.L. (2022) Children with language disorder and as friends: The perspectives of their classroom peers. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 39(1), 39–57. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656590221139231

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

Orrego, P. M., McGregor, K. K., & Reyes, S. M. (2023). A First-Person Account of Developmental Language Disorder. American journal of speech-language pathology, 32(4), 1383–1396. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_AJSLP-22-00247

Lyons, R., Carroll, C., Gallagher, A., Merrick, R., & Tancredi, H. (2022). Understanding the perspectives of children and young people with speech, language and communication needs: How qualitative research can inform practice. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 24(5), 547–557. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2022.2038669

Faris, Lee. (2022). A primary school head teacher’s experience of pressure to join a multi-academy trust. London Review of Education. 20. 10.14324/LRE.20.1.44.

Mendiri, P., Rebollo-Quintela, N., & Losada-Puente, L. (2024). Wellbeing at school in the experience of primary school children; [El benestar escolar des de l’experiència de l’alumnat d’educació primària]; [El bienestar escolar desde la experiencia del alumnado de Educación Primaria]. In Educar (Vol. 60, Issue 1, pp. 237–254). https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/educar.1818

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position	VII.b - Name of the institution, board	VII.c - Duration
Academic Tutor	Institute of Applied Psychology	2024 - present
Reviewer	European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Leuven, Belgium	2023 1 year
Reviewer	British Journal of Educational Psychology.	5 years
Student Advisory Committee Member	Student Minds, United Kingdom	2 years
Member of the Master in Psychology (Conversion) Programme Degree Committee	School of Education	3.5 years
Research groups member	Relational Health, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Special Education Needs and Inclusion at University of Exeter	3 years
Committee Member for Participatory Research Methods	National Centre for Research Methods, University of Southampton, United Kingdom	3 years

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

IX. - Other relevant facts

IX.a - If relevant, other activities related to higher education or research/artistic/other activities are mentioned

Currently collaborating with the Socail and Health Education Project from Cork, Ireland on a research aimed at enhancing psychosocial capacities in professionals in school context

Date of last update

2024-12-05

Name and surname:	Mgr. Lenka Janík Blašková, PhD.
Document type:	Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:	Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:	Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava