Tomas Jurcik
- Visiting Lecturer: Faculty of Social Sciences / School of Psychology
- Tomas Jurcik has been at HSE University since 2024.
Education and Degrees
Concordia University
McGill University
University of Western Australia
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
London Clinical Psychology Residency Consortium 2013-2014
London, ON, Canada
Rotations: Prevention and Early Intervention Program for Psychoses, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Geriatric Psychiatry, Assessment, and Epilepsy
Awards and Accomplishments
Best Teacher — 2019–2023, 2017
Courses (2024/2025)
- Controversies in Psychology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Psychology, field of study Psychology; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Controversies in Psychology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Psychology, field of study Psychology; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Controversies in Psychology (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2022/2023)
- Abnormal and Clinical Psychology: Social and Cultural Contexts (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Psychology, field of study Psychology; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Controversies in Psychology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2021/2022)
- Abnormal and Clinical Psychology: Social and Cultural Contexts (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Controversies in Psychology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2020/2021)
- Abnormal and Clinical Psychology: Social and Cultural Contexts (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
Employment history
National Research University - Higher School of Economics Nov. 2016-present
Moscow, Russia
Position: Assistant Professor
Health and Balance Counselling Apr. 2015-present
Vancouver, British Columbia
Position: Registered Psychologist, Clinic Director (Sep. 2016 onwards)
Adler University Sep. 2014-Aug. 2016
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Position: Core Faculty
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Clinic Sep. 2012-Aug. 2013
(Affiliated with McGill University Health Centre)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Position: Psychologist
Montreal Therapy Centre Feb. 2007-Feb. 2014
Queen Elizabeth Health Complex
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Position: Counsellor (2007-2012); Psychologist (Oct. 2012-Feb. 2014)
Cultural Consultation Service Oct. 2005- Aug. 2008
Culture and Mental Health Research Unit
Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Position: Research Coordinator
Associated Event of the XXI April conference: VII International Research Conference "Culture in Society, Between Groups and Across Generations"
Due to worldwide spread of the COVID-19, the Associated Event of the XXI April conference: VII International Scientific Conference “Culture in Society, Between Groups and Across Generations” was held on April, 23-24 in an online form on the Microsoft Teams.
VI International Research Conference "Culture in society, between groups and across generations"
April 5-6 the VI International Research Conference "Culture in society, between groups and across generations", organized by the International Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research at the Expert Institute of the Higher School of Economics took place in Moscow.
Prize of the competition for the best paper in the special issue of the Russian Psychological Journal
The paper of researcher fellows of the International Laboratory for Sociocultural Research and teachers of the master's program "Applied Social Psychology" Anastasia Batkhina, Dmitry Grigoryev, Dmitrii Dubov and Тomas Jurcik (associate professor of the Department of Psychology HSE) was recognized as the best paper of the special issue of the Russian Psychological Journal by the decision of the Competition Commission. The Russian Psychological Journal is a leading Russian peer-reviewed journal of psychology and an open-access journal established by the Russian Psychological Society.
IV International Research Conference "Culture in society, between groups and across generations"
April 18-20 the IV International Research Conference "Culture in society, between groups and across generations", organized by the International Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research at the Expert Institute of the Higher School of Economics took place in Moscow.
Immigrants with Trauma: From Risk to Resilience
On March 2 Tomas Jurcik (Assistant Professor, PhD, Faculty of Social Science, School of Psychology, HSE) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report on "Immigrants with Trauma: From Risk to Resilience".
New courses – “Environmental psychology” and “Abnormal and Clinical Psychology: Social and Cultural Contexts”
For the winter semester of 2017 “Applied Social Psychology” introduces two new courses - “Environmental psychology” and “Abnormal and Clinical Psychology: Social and Cultural Contexts”