Dr Vladimir Cvetković is the Institute Manager for the Institute of Global Health and Development Division at ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø University, Edinburgh.
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Vladimir is a sociologist with professional experience in project management, research, monitoring and evaluation, and policy and institutional capacity ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍøment in post-conflict and fragile settings, including Afghanistan, Georgia and the Western Balkans. Prior to joining IGHD in 2021, Vladimir’s past work included posts with the OSCE, UNDP, a number of international NGOs, a knowledge-sharing platform in Poland, and civil society and academia.
As a researcher and academic, Vladimir has worked on research projects as a methodology consultant and a researcher, including in team leader capacity. Research subjects have included gun culture and community safety for UNDP and Saferworld, cultural dispositions and regional co-operation with the University of NiÅ¡, Serbia, as well as a number of research projects and evaluations relating to ethnic minorities and marginalised groups, particularly Roma, for different organisations, including the Open Society Foundation. While working on his PhD thesis he supported the Serbian Sociological Association’s international co-operation activity, and was part of a team ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍøing an educational start-up in Poland and the Czech Republic.
As a practitioner, Vladimir has worked on the implementation of human rights standards and provision of inclusive public services. This included ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍøing a framework for mapping minority community needs and delivering training and broader institutional capacity ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍøment for the OSCE in Kosovo, leading a national police capacity building programme for the disbandment of illegal armed groups and community security for UNDP in Afghanistan, and, ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍøing a toolkit for monitoring and assessing project impact for CARE International in rural Georgia.
Vladimir joined IGHD in 2021 and is responsible for communication, finances, planning and management of the Institute.
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Affiliations
Serbian Sociological Association
International Sociological Association, RC14 Sociology of Communication, Knowledge & Culture
Economic culture, small arms control and gun culture, cultural dispositions and socio-economic ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍøment, socio-economic status of Roma communities, knowledge, algorithms and social practice.
Active research interests:
Legitimation, institutions, and behavioural patterns, particularly from the perspective of policy and project implementation, and as a tool for granular and context-specific social intervention.
Algorithms/AI, cognition, and collective worldviews.
Data visualisation in social sciences and knowledge communication.
Research Methods:
Qualitative, Content Analysis, Grounded Theory, Social Mapping
Quantitative, Content Analysis, PC/Factor Analysis, Cluster Analysis
Visual EDA
Research Centre:
Institute for Global Health and Development
