Anja Iveković Martinis is from Zagreb, Croatia, and she graduated in Anthropology and Comparative Literature from the University of Zagreb in 2011. She obtained an MA degree in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester, UK, in 2013 and a PhD in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Zadar, Croatia, in 2017.
She has been employed as a Research Assistant (2011-2017) and Postdoctoral Researcher (2018-2022) at the Institute for Anthropological Research in Zagreb, where she worked on several research projects, including SOLIDARan – Solidarity Economy in Croatia: an Anthropological Perspective (Croatian Science Foundation, 2020-2024). Her first involvement with the Social Work Study Centre at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb was as a researcher (2023-2024) on the project rEUsilience – Risks, Resources and Inequalities: Increasing Resilience in European Families (Horizon Europe, 2022-2025). Since 2025, she has been working as a researcher on the project WISESHIFT – Multi-level policies and theories on how to leverage Work Integration Social Enterprises for inclusive and sustainable socioeconomic transition (Horizon Europe, 2025-2029).
Her research interests are the Social and Solidarity Economy, community organisations, urban and visual anthropology, and discourse analysis. She has published research papers and book chapters and is a member of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR).
Education
Graduated in: 2011
Obtained a Master’s degree in: 2013
Obtained a PhD degree in: 2017
Employed with the department since: 2025
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