Skip to main content
School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
  1. School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
  2. People
  3. Academic staff
  4. Profiles

Dr Bosiljka Milosavljevic

Bosiljka

Lecturer in Psychology (T&R)

Email: b.milosavljevic@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: 2.01, Fogg Building
Twitter: @BosiljkaMilosav

Undergraduate Teaching

  • PSY338 - Childhood & Adolescent Mental Health

Postgraduate Teaching

  • PSY724P - Developmental Psychology

Research

Research Interests:

My research focuses on identifying infant markers of childhood neurocognitive and mental health outcomes. I study how early behaviour, attention, and neural function develop and interact with environmental risk and resilience factors. I am particularly interested in examining development in the context of global health and supporting the implementation of neurodevelopmental research into diverse, global contexts. 

Current projects

  • The Brain Imaging for Global Health (BRIGHT) Project examines development from the antenatal period to preschool age among children in a rural area of The Gambia and UK. The goal of this study is to map trajectories of brain and cognitive development in these populations to better understand the impact of poverty-related risk and the role of protective factors in development. 

Publications

 2024

Lloyd-Fox, S.,* McCann, S.,* Milosavljevic B.,* Katus, L.,* Blasi, A., Bulgarelli, C., Crespo, Llado., M., Ghillia, G., Fadera, T., Mbye, E., Mason, L., Njai, F., Njie, O., Perapoch-Amado, M., Rozhko, M., Sosseh, F., Saidykhan, M., Touray, E., Moore, S.E., Elwell, C.E. & The BRIGHT Project Team (2024). The Brain Imaging for Global Health (BRIGHT) Project: Longitudinal cohort study protocol [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations]. Gates Open Research, 7, 126. https://doi.org/10.12688/gatesopenres.14795.2 *Joint first authors

Bazelmans, T., Arthur, R., Pasco, G., Shephard, E., Milosavljevic, B., Begum Ali, J., Pickles, A., Johnson, M.H., Jones, E.J.H., Charman, T. (2024). Mid-childhood autism sibling recurrence in infants with a family history of autism. Autism Research, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3182

Macrae, E., Milosavljevic, B., Katus, L., Mason, L., Perapoch Amadó, M., Rozhko, M., de Haan, M., Elwell, C.E., Moore, S.E., Lloyd-Fox, S., & The BRIGHT Project Team. Cognitive control in infancy: Attentional predictors using a tablet-based measure. Infancy, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12599

Katus, L., Crespo-Llado, M., Milosavljevic, B., Saidykhan, M., Njie, O., Fadera, T., McCann, S., Acolytes, L., Perapoch Amado, M., Rozhko, M., Moore, S.E., Elwell, C.E., Lloyd-Fox, S., & The BRIGHT Project Team (2024). It takes a village: Caregiver diversity and language contingency in the UK and rural Gambia. Infant Behavior and Development, 74, 101913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101913

2023

McCann, S., Mason, L., Milosavljevic, B., Mbye, E., Touray, E., Colley, A., Johnson, W., Lloyd-Fox, S., Elwell, C.E., Moore, S.E., & The BRIGHT Study Team (2023). Iron status in early infancy is associated with trajectories of cognitive development up to pre-school age in rural Gambia. PLOS Global Public Health, 3(11), e0002531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002531 

Milosavljevic, B., Cook, C.J., Fadera, T., Ghillia, G., Howard, S.J., Makaula, H., Mbye, E., McCann, S., Merkley, R., Mshudulu, M., Saidykhan, M., Touray, E., Tshetu, N., Elwell, C., Moore, S.E., Scerif, G., Draper, C.E., & Lloyd-Fox, S (2023). Executive functioning skills and their environmental predictors among pre-school aged children in South Africa and The Gambia. Developmental Science, e13407. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13407

2022

Katus, L., Milosavljevic, B., Rozhko, M., McCann, S., Mason, L., Mbye, E., Touray, E., Moore, S.E., Elwell, C.E., Lloyd-Fox, S., de Haan, M., & The BRIGHT Study Team (2022). Neural marker of habituation at 5 months of age associated with deferred imitation performance at 12 months: A longitudinal study in the UK and The Gambia. Children, 9(7), 988. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9070988

2020

Godoy, P. B. G., Shephard, E., Milosavljevic, B., Johnson, M. H., & Charman, T. (2020). Brief report: Associations between cognitive control processes and traits of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and anxiety in children at elevated and typical familial likelihood for ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 2020, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1007/S10803-020-04732-9

Shephard, E., Milosavljevic, B., Mason, L., Elsabbagh, M., Tye, C., Gliga, T., Jones, E. J., Charman, T., Johnson, M. H., Baron-Cohen, S., Bedford, R., Bolton, P., Chandler, S., Fernandes, J., Garwood, H., Hudry, K., Pasco, G., Pickles, A., Tucker, L., & Volein, A. (2020). Neural and behavioural indices of face processing in siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): A longitudinal study from infancy to mid-childhood. Cortex, 127, 162–179. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CORTEX.2020.02.008

Katus, L., Mason, L., Milosavljevic, B., McCann, S., Rozhko, M., Moore, S. E., Elwell, C. E., Lloyd-Fox, S., de Haan, M., Drammeh, S., Mbye, E., Touray, E., Ceesay, M., Jobarteh, B., Darboe, M. K., Austin, T., & Prentice, A. (2020). ERP markers are associated with neurodevelopmental outcomes in 1–5 month old infants in rural Africa and the UK. NeuroImage, 210, 116591. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.NEUROIMAGE.2020.116591

2019

Milosavljevic, B., Vellekoop, P., Maris, H., Halliday, D., Drammeh, S., Sanyang, L., Darboe, M. K., Elwell, C., Moore, S. E., & Lloyd‐Fox, S. (2019). Adaptation of the Mullen Scales of Early Learning for use among infants aged 5‐ to 24‐months in rural Gambia. Developmental Science, 22(5). https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12808

2018

Salomone, E., Shephard, E., Milosavljevic, B., Johnson, M. H., Charman, T., & BASIS Team. (2018). Adaptive Behaviour and Cognitive Skills: Stability and Change from 7 Months to 7 Years in Siblings at High Familial Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48(9), 2901–2911. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3554-5

Shephard, E., Bedford, R., Milosavljevic, B., Gliga, T., Jones, E. J. H., Pickles, A., Johnson, M. H., Charman, T., & BASIS Team. (2018). Early developmental pathways to childhood symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety and autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12947

2017

Milosavljevic, B., Shephard, E., Happé, F. G., Johnson, M. H., Charman, T., & BASIS Team. (2017). Anxiety and Attentional Bias to Threat in Children at Increased Familial Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47(12), 3714–3727. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-3012-1

Shephard, E., Milosavljevic, B., Pasco, G., Jones, E. J. H., Gliga, T., Happé, F. G., Johnson, M. H., Charman, T., & BASIS Team. (2017). Mid-childhood outcomes of infant siblings at familial high-risk of autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 10(3), 546–557. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1733

2016

Milosavljevic, B., Carter Leno, V., Simonoff, E., Baird, G., Pickles, A., Jones, C. R. G., Erskine, C., Charman, T., & Happé, F. G. (2016). Alexithymia in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: Its relationship to internalising difficulties, sensory modulation and social cognition. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46(4), 1354–1367. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-015-2670-8

2014

Zebrowitz, L. A., Franklin, R. G., Boshyan, J., Luevano, V., Agrigoroaei, S., Milosavljevic, B., & Lachman, M. E. (2014). Older and younger adults’ accuracy in discerning health and competence in older and younger faces. Psychology and Aging, 29(3), 454–468. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036255

2012

Percac-Lima, S., Milosavljevic, B., Oo, S. A., Marable, D., & Bond, B. (2012). Patient navigation to improve breast cancer screening in Bosnian refugees and immigrants. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 14(4), 727–730. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-011-9539-5

Grants

Back to top