Aleksandra Lazić is a Research Assistant and PhD Candidate in Psychology at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy in Serbia. She earned her B.A. and M.A. in Psychology from the same institution. Aleksandra is interested in applying psychological science to understand and solve real-world problems. Her PhD project explores how people make vaccination decisions in social interactions with others and its implications for public policies and communication, using a mix of online experiments, self-reported studies, and media content analyses. Aleksandra won a Researchers in the Global South Grant from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, which funded a part of her PhD project.
Since 2022, she is part of the research team of the Reason4Health project, funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia. Her main role in the project is to lead and coordinate a content analysis study of online media coverage of folk, complementary, and alternative medicine in Serbia. She is an alumna of the Junior Researcher Programme, where she served as a Research Supervisor, and a member of the Laboratory for Research of Individual Differences (LIRA) at the University of Belgrade. In 2020, at LIRA, Aleksandra co-founded an open repository called REPOPSI that researchers and students can use to freely access and share psychological tests in Serbian and other languages. Since then, she served as REPOPSI’s manager and led a project – funded by EOSC Future and Research Data Alliance – to improve Repository’s technologies and increase the number of its records. To learn and give back to the Open Science community, Aleksandra has also been affiliated with initiatives such as CREP, FORRT, and, since 2022, ABRIR. In her spare time, she enjoys doing data viz in R, drawing, and running.