Dea Radovancevic

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Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, expected 2025
M.A. in Educational Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, 2022
B.S. in Advertising, Concentration in Media, The University of Texas at Austin, 2016

Email: dea.radovancevic@austin.utexas.edu
 
Dea Radovancevic's primary research interest lies in supporting community mental health and well-being through an exploration of individual and collective community dynamics. Her research questions how communities respond to and cope with mass trauma, specifically mass shootings. Radovancevic's current dissertation research seeks to understand how support enables and hinders communities in coping with mass shootings, exploring the 2022 Robb Elementary school mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Radovancevic, together with Dr. Ricardo Ainslie's lab, previously sought to understand psychological distress, community response, and healing in the aftermath of the 2019 Walmart mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. Radovancevic's approach to research is focused on qualitative inquiry, using storytelling as a method to communicate human experience, narratives, and meaning.

Here's a peak into our past research.