Linda Rajhvajn Bulat graduated (2004) and obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Science (2011) from the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Since 2021 she has been an associate professor at the Social Work Study Centre of the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb where she was first employed in 2005 as a teaching assistant.

Her research and teaching interests are primarily focused on internalised and externalised problems of children, adolescents and young people, as well as their parents. So fat she has participated in more than 20 scientific research projects, out of which two were financed by the Croatian Science Foundation (Intergenerational Transmission of Risk of Adolescent Mental Health 2021-2025 and Family Economic Hardship, Psychosocial Problems and Educational Outcomes of Adolescents in the Time of Economic Crisis 2015-2020), and four were international projects: Subjective well-being of children, financed by UNICEF which includes international  research of subjective well-being of children by the Children’s Worlds organisation (2018-2021), Social fieldwork research: Child participation in civil and criminal justice – Phase IIb – Fieldwork research with children (2013-14, in Croatia led by the Croatian Law Centre), international scientific-research Tempus project Developing the Model of Improving the Quality of Study on the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb (2006) and CONNECT – Components, organization, costs and outcomes of health care and community based interventions for people with post-traumatic stress following war and conflict in the Balkans (2004 – 2005, in Croatia led by the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She also regularly leads and/or participates in scientific-research projects supported by the University of Zagreb.

At the Social Work Study Centre she participates in the teaching obligatory courses Social Work with youth with socially unacceptable behaviour and Social group work (course co-holder) and elective courses Basic crisis intervention in social work (course holder) and Subjective well-being (course co-holder). She participated in the courses Interpersonal communication, Social psychology and Methodology of research in social work. Since 2010 she has actively co-supervised and supervised final papers of the students of the graduate study of social work and empirical and review papers by the students of the undergraduate study. She also supervised the papers awarded by the Rector’s and Dean’s award. She regularly teaches at the doctoral study programme of social work and social policy within the elective course Research on children and youth.

She has published a number of scientific papers, a scientific monograph and several professional papers. Since 2020 she has been a member of the editorial board of the Annual of Social Work. She is a regular reviewer for Croatian scientific journals such as the Annual of Social Work, Journal of Social Policy, Social Research and Psychological Topics, as well as some international scientific journals in the area of psychology and social services.

Since 2005 she has been a member of the Team for psychological crisis interventions, and since 2021 she has been a team co-ordinator on the country level. As a member of the Society for Psychological Assistance, she participated in various projects and trainings related to the provision of support in crisis situations.

She is experienced in group work with adolescents and parents. She is a cognitive behavioural therapist and has completed additional education and training in the areas of trauma, stress, psychological first aid, parenthood, professional support to children and adolescents and drama pedagogy.