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Lucija Vejmelka
Curious to discover ways to drive changes. Experienced researcher in the field of digital well-being and child protection, senior research associate, associate professor, editor-in-chief of the Ljetopis socijalnog rada (WOS and SOCPUS).
WEB: https://www.pravo.unizg.hr/en/lucija.vejmelka GOOGLE SCHOLAR: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OD0C1qcAAAAJ&hl=en ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7531-8457 CRORIS: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/12081 LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucija-vejmelka-digital-well-being/ EDITOR IN CHIEF Ljetopis socijalnog rada, WOS, SCOPUS, https://hrcak.srce.hr/ljetopis?lang=en
Primary research focus in the area of digital well-being, peer relations, problematic internet use, alternative childcare, group work, communication skills, qualitative methodology. Doctoral dissertation, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb (2012) on the topic of violence among children in institutional placement of children. Foster carer supervisor (SIDA Sweden), attendee of the specialist postgraduate study in Family Mediation. Head of the lifelong education program for specialists Benefits and risks of modern technologies (4 ECTS). Commissioner for e-learning at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. Permanent associate and expert advisor of the Safer Internet Center Croatia: making internet a good and safe place, a national project supported by the European Commission. Deputy member of the Council for Children of the Republic of Croatia (2018-2020). Member of the working group for the preparation of the Initial Report of the Republic of Croatia according to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. Co-founder of FICE Croatia, the domestic branch of FICE International. Researcher in number of research projects in the field of child protection, national research coordinator on the international research project Subjective well-being of children. Research leader of the regional comparative, nationally representative research on online sexual harassment by deSHAME Croatia and related regional research conducted in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina on representative samples as a continuation of the deSHAME international research of Childnet. Active international engagement, guest lecturer at foreign faculties, study visits, expertise for the European Commission, national representative in the COST actions, chair of international scientific congress FICE35. She has published several scientific and professional works and one scientific monograph. Active participation in more than 80 scientific conferences and professional meetings.