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I work as a postdoctoral research fellow with Dr Kate Reynolds, Professor John C. Turner and Dr Boris Bizumic on projects investigating self-categorization processes in personality, leadership and social change. I received my PhD from the Australian National University in December 2008, for a thesis titled “Political Solidarity as a Social Change Process: Dynamics of Self-Categorization in Intergroup Power Relations” (PhD Principal Supervisor: Dr Kate Reynolds).
Current Grants
2010 - 2014: Leadership, social identity and the dynamics of influence in intergroup relations: A new understanding of social continuity and social change (A$460,548)
Awarded by the ARC Discovery Project scheme to Emina Subasic (Team Leader/CI, APD Fellow), Katherine Reynolds (CI), Paul 't Hart (CI), Steve Reicher (PI) and Alex Haslam (PI).
Project Summary: Understanding how social change occurs (or continuity prevails) and the role of leadership in this process is paramount to any social system (e.g. nation, state, organization, team). This project provides a new social psychological understanding of leadership and social change dynamics, including when more radical leaders and social relations emerge, as well as how different groups become more united around a common cause. Given ethnic, religious, social and political diversity of Australian society, these questions are fundamental to strengthening Australia's social fabric. This research also has cross-disciplinary applications, builds international collaborations, and supports emerging Australian research talent.
2008-2011: Understanding the school as an intergroup system: Implications for school reform and improving student and staff outcomes. (A$420,000 cash & A$415,080 in-kind)
Awarded by the ARC Linkage Project scheme to Katherine Reynolds (Team Leader, CI), Boris Bizumic (CI), Emina Subasic (CI), Kathy Melsom (PI) and Fiona MacGregor (PI) in partnership with the ACT Department of Education and Training.
Project Summary: The project which continues work started in 2007, has been funded for three years and seeks to improve school outcomes (learning, attendance, behaviour, psychological well-being) through a better understanding of group processes and the way different groups within the school can achieve their shared aims and goals. The central idea is that one’s group memberships and associated norms and practices directly impact on the attitudes and behaviours of individual members. The aim is to change the relevant groups within a school and how they relate in order to build a more positive school climate and higher school identification and as a result, improve school outcomes. Work to date shows that one's psychological identification to the school and groups within it, play an important role in the psychological well-being of both staff and students and students' behaviour in the classroom. The work will now be extended to include a total of four high schools in the ACT.
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Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Subasic, E., Reynolds, K. J., Turner, J. C., Veenstra, K. E., Haslam, S. A. (in press) Leadership, power and the use of surveillance: Implications of shared social identity for leaders' capacity to influence. Leadership Quarterly
Subasic, E. & Reynolds, K. J. (forthcoming). Social Identity, Power and Leadership in Transition. In P. 't Hart & J. Uhr (Eds.) Rites of Passage: Studies of Leadership Succession and Political Transition. Palgrave Macmillan.
Subasic, E., & Reynolds, K. J. (2009). Beyond "practical" reconciliation: Intergroup inequality and the meaning of Non-Indigenous identity. Political Psychology, 30(2):243-267. (Special Issue on Political Reconciliation)
Subasic, E., Reynolds, K. J., & Turner, J. C. (2008). The political solidarity model of social change: Dynamics of self-categorization in intergroup power relations. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 12 (4):330-352. Note: PSPR is the highest-ranked journal in Social Psychology (IF=8.500).
Bizumic, B., Reynolds, K. J., Turner, J. C., Bromhead, D. & Subasic, E. (2009). The role of the group in individual functioning: School identification and the psychological well-being of staff and students. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 58(1):171-192. (Special issue on Social Identity, Health and Well-being).
Turner, J. C., Reynolds, K. J., & Subasic, E. (2008). Identity confers power: The new view of leadership in social psychology. P. ‘t Hart & J. Uhr (Eds). Public Leadership: Perspectives and Practices. pp.57-72. Canberra: ANU E-Press.
Reynolds, K.J., Turner, J.C., Haslam, S.A., Ryan, M. K., Bizumic, B. & Subasic, E. (2007). Does personality explain ingroup identification and discrimination? Evidence form the minimal group paradigm. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 517-539.
Conference Presentations and Invited Seminars (in reverse chronological order)
Subasic, E. Schmitt, M. T., & Reynolds, K. J. (2010). Political solidarity meets political consumerism: Common fate, shared identity meaning and opposition to corporate mistreatment of sweatshop workers. Poster to be presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, 28-30 January, 2010.
Subasic, E., Reynolds, K. J., ‘t Hart, P., Reicher, S. D., & Haslam, S. A. (2009). Leadership, social identity and the dynamics of influence in intergroup relations: A new understanding of social continuity and social change. Paper to be presented to the 3rd Annual Workshop on Public Leadership, Australian National University, 26-27 November.
Subasic, E. (2009) Understanding social stability and social change: The political solidarity model. Invited seminar presentation as recipient of Department of Psychology PhD Award for 2008. Australian National University, Canberra, 24 September 2009.
Subasic, E., Reynolds, K. J., & Turner, J. C. (2009) How leaders can redefine intergroup relations to shape ingroup identity and consolidate power. Paper presented at the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP) Annual Scientific Meeting, Dublin, 14-17 July 2009.
Subasic, E. & Reynolds, K. J. (2009) The Political Solidarity Model: Empirical Evidence and Implications For Social Stability and Social Change. Paper presented at the European Association of Social Psychology meeting on Collective Action and Social Change: Towards Integration and Innovation, Groningen, The Netherlands, 3-6 July 2009.
Reynolds, K. J., Bizumic, B., Subasic, E., & Bromhead, D. (2009). Building authority and influence: Insights from understanding a school as en intergroup system. Paper presented at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists, Melbourne, Australia, 16-19 April 2009.
Subasic, E. & Reynolds, K. J. (2008) Leaders under threat: Using exclusion of the "other" to shape social identity and consolidate power. Paper presented at the 2nd Australia/New Zealand Studies in Public Leadership Workshop, Australian National University, 27-28 November 2008.
Reynolds, K. J., Turner, J. C., & Subasic, E. (2008) Enhancing, maintaining and losing legitimacy: Implications for social change. Paper presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Justice Research, Adelaide, 14-17 August 2008.
Turner, J. C., Reynolds, K. J., & Subasic, E. (2007) Identity confers power: The new view of leadership in social psychology. Paper presented at the “Public Leadership in Australia and Beyond: Political, bureaucratic and civic leadership in comparative perspective” workshop, Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) and Australian and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG), Australian National University, Canberra, 29-30 November 2007.
Bizumic, B., Reynolds, K. J., Turner, J. C., Subasic, E., & Johnson, S. C. (2007). How stable are prejudice and ideology? Evidence of variability as a function of motivational orientation. Paper presented at the Thirtieth Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology in Portland, OR, USA, 4-7 July 2007.
Subasic, E. (2007) Political Solidarity: Self-categorization, intergroup power relations and social change. Invited seminar presentation at Groupthink (Social Psychology Group Meeting), School of Psychology, The Australian National University, 18 May 2007.
Subasic, E. & Reynolds, L. (2006) Political Solidarity with Indigenous People. Invited seminar presentation at the Social Psychology Lab Meeting, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver BC, Canada, 17 November 2006.
Subasic, E. & Reynolds, K. (2006) Political solidarity with Indigenous people: The role of Non-Indigenous Identity. 2006 Australian National University Spring Workshop in Social Psychology: Nation, Ethnicity and Identity. Canberra, 1 November 2006.
Subasic, E. & Reynolds, K. (2006) Political solidarity in intergroup relations: When good people do something. 35th Annual Conference of Society of Australasian Social Psychologists, Canberra, 20-23 April 2006.
Subasic, E. & Reynolds, K. (2005) Political Solidarity, Identity and Social Change: When will the Silent Majority Speak Out? Paper presented at the European Association for Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP) Conference/General Meeting, July 2005, Wurzburg, Germany.
Subasic, E. & Reynolds, K. (2004). When do we care? Advantaged group responses to collective social action. Paper presented at the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (SASP) Conference, April 2004, Auckland, New Zealand.
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