Lucija Vejmelka

Lucija Vejmelka is assistant professor at Faculty of Law, Department of Social Work in Zagreb. She graduated social work in 2006 at the, and finished her PhD degree in 2012 at the same Department where she is currently involved in specialist postdiploma study about Family Mediation. She is Managing Editor of the scientific journal Ljetopis socijalnog rada/ Annual of Social Work cited in the WoS and Scopus and other relevant databases in the field of social work.
Her fields of research are peer violence, online risks for children and youth, child wellbeing, children in care, professional communication, family mediation and group work and she published several scientific papers and actively participated at the number of national and international scientific conferences. She is currently involved in several projects with Unicef Office for Croatia, Ministry of Justice and National science foundation.
She is a member of the National working body for interdepartmental and inter-sectoral coordination for monitoring young people at risk of social exclusion at Croatian Minstry of Social Policy and Youth
Her international experience includes a three-month study visit in the Netherlands to Zuyd University of Applied Sciences and Faculty of Social Studies and Education in CESRT Research Centre Social Integration during doctoral studies (2010). Erasmus plus scholarship for 2014 was spent in Ghent (Hogeschool Gent, Faculteit Mens en Welzijn, Faculty of Education, Health and Social Work), where she held classes at the International study program, and in 2016 through the Erasmus plus she teaches in Barcelona (Universitat de Barclona, Facultat de Pedagogia, Departament de treball Social i Serveis Socials). From 2015 she is included in Cost action about peer review under the leadership of the University of Brescia, Italy.