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I had completed my four-year undergraduate studies at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Political Science鈥檚 Department of Social Policy and Social Work in 2009, and after working as a social worker with the deprived persons of the community of almost all ages and walks of life, I completed my master鈥檚 studies at the same University鈥檚 Department in 2020 with the master鈥檚 thesis on the 鈥淯niversal Basic Income as an Instrument of Social Policy鈥�. The focus of my research interest is a connection between the function of social policy and social work, and the basic social question of modern society: unjust distribution of income and assets that is giving rise to social problems of inequality, poverty, unemployment and social exclusion, and undermines real freedom and participation of majority of the population in the social, economic, cultural and political life of the community and the society as a whole. I am deeply interested in research and practice of transition to sustainable social, environmental and economic policies based on core human values of justice, solidarity and mutual aid between all people.

Within the ASTRA project, I research the impact of charitable surplus food redistribution on the welfare state in Slovenia and Finland. The frame of understanding the research problem includes recognition that welfare state and social work in state-capitalist system have been contradictory institutions that contain at any time both elements of control and repression, and of meeting the needs of citizens. It is important to explain the ongoing development of these inner contradictions through the lens of normalization and institutionalization of charitable surplus food redistribution whereby social work is becoming increasingly residual and controlling public service in the neoliberal welfare state.

Conferences/Panels:
Panelist in the United Nations Commission for Social Development鈥檚 panel on 鈥淔ood Insecurity: Youth from the grassroots speak out in the context of COVID 19 crisis鈥�, held online on 16 February 2022.听.

International European Conference for Social Work Research (ECSWR), Symposium: Applying Sustainability Transition Research in Social Work tackling Major Societal Challenges of Social Inclusion, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 6-8 April 2022

Panelist in the plenary panel on 鈥淔ood in Time of Climate Challenges鈥� in the conference 鈥淪ocio-Ecological Transformation鈥�, held at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, on 4 November 2022.听

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