Faculty members from the Department of Psychology participate in the international SRIP Conference

Associate Professor Sandra Nakić Radoš, PhD, Maja Žutić, PhD, and Nikolina Vukšić, MSc in Psychology, from the University Department of Psychology at the Catholic University of Croatia, participated in the 46th Annual Conference of the Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology (SRIP), held on September 15–16, 2026, at the University of Chester in the United Kingdom.

Professor Nakić Radoš was a member of the Programme Committee and, as the Society’s Communication Officer and a member of the Core Office, also participated in preparatory meetings ahead of the conference. She organized the symposium “Innovations in Peripartum Depression Assessment: Validity and Clinical Utility of the Peripartum Depression Scale Across Countries”, which presented a new instrument for measuring peripartum depression developed by Professor Nakić Radoš and her research team, as well as its validation in Croatia, the Czech Republic, and Germany.

As part of the symposium, Professor Nakić Radoš presented a validation study conducted on a sample of fathers, co-authored with Nikolina Vukšić, Marijana Matijaš, Maja Žutić, and Maja Brekalo, entitled “Psychometric Validation of the Peripartum Depression Scale in Expectant Fathers and Fathers”. Doctoral student Nikolina Vukšić delivered a presentation in collaboration with the consortium of the Horizon Europe HappyMums project entitled “Measuring Depression Symptoms in Pregnancy and Postpartum: Diagnostic Value of the Peripartum Depression Scale”. Professor Nakić Radoš was also a co-author of validation studies conducted in the Czech Republic and Germany and moderated two conference sessions.

The city of Chester is almost 2,000 years old and dates back to Roman times. It is particularly known for its historic centre and “the Rows”, distinctive two-tiered covered shopping galleries dating from the 13th and 14th centuries. The University of Chester was founded in 1839 and is one of the oldest higher education institutions in England, following Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, and London.

On their return from the conference, the faculty members visited the John Rylands Library, housed in a magnificent Neo-Gothic building in the heart of Manchester. Opened in 1900, the library is now part of the University of Manchester and is the third-largest library in the United Kingdom.