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Who we are? | NEVET

Who we are?

Team

    • Prof. Heidi Keller
      Is the former president of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP). She is a leading international scholar in the area of cross-cultural child development and is currently the director of the Research Unit on Culture, Learning, and Development at the Lower Saxonian Institute of Early Development and Learning (nifbe). Professor Keller has conducted a substantial number of research projects in different parts of the world. These experiences include culturally-sensitive recruitment, research site identification and set up, and development and adaptation of methodologies. Her theoretical work includes the development of cultural conceptions of risk, agency and relatedness as well as their interrelations in the formation of competence in cross-cultural contexts.
    • Prof. Dorit Roer-Strier
      Is a faculty member at the School of Social Work and Social Welfare and the Graduate Program for Early Childhood Studies at the Hebrew University. She has extensive research experience on international cross-cultural family and children studies. She is a clinical psychologist trained in family, community and children interventions. Professor Roer-Strier has developed theoretical models on children and families coping with risks related to cultural change and has designed and supervised intervention programs among immigrant and refugee populations. Working with interdisciplinary research groups, she has designed multinational projects to build the new generation of researchers on cross-cultural studies in Israel. Her methodological approaches include qualitative, mixed, and action research methods.
    • Dr. Yael (Julia) Ponisovsky-Bergelson (MSW)
      Is a postdoctoral fellow at NEVET. She received her Ph.D. in 2015 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for her research on post-migration filial responsibility, psychological adjustment and well-being among immigrant children and adolescents’. Yael completed her studies at the direct track for doctoral studies, the Program for Outstanding Students, Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare. Yael participates in several national and international research projects. Currently, she is a lecturer at the Department of Social Work, School of Social and Community Studies, Ruppin Academic Center. Yael lectures courses on child development, child-focused research, research methods, and supervises graduate students
  • Graduates
    • Amitai Marmor
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    • Ulitsa Natalie
      Is a Ph.D. candidate of the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Her research, that supervised by Professor Dorit Roer-Strier, Professor Heidi Keller and Doctor Hille Otto, focuses on parental beliefs and practices as well as parental perceptions of risk among 1.5 generation of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel. She received her Master degree in Early Childhood Studies, from the Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare and the School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her thesis dissertation was about motherhood in cross-cultural transition and focused on the views of immigrant mothers from former Soviet Union on process of cross-cultural transition and its consequences on parenting: on parental roles within the family, parents' behavior, and goals and ways of children's education and socialization. Natalie has experience working with children at risk as a therapeutic teacher in Jerusalem Hills Therapeutic Center (JHTC) that provides both a warm home and a treatment venue for Israel's most at-risk children.  In 2013 Natalie received President's Scholarship for outstanding doctoral students.
  • International Advisory Board
  • Israeli Advisory Board
  • M.A. Students