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Curriculum Vitae Branko Ančić, Ph.D.

Institute for Social Research in Zagreb Frankopanska 22/I 10000 Zagreb, Croatia Tel +385 (0) 1 4922299 Fax +385 (0) 1 4810263 [email protected], [email protected]

Date of birth: December 7, 1981

Education:

2013. of Philosophy – sociology (theme: Religious Community as a Social Resource: Research on Relationship Between Religion and Health) 2008. Postgraduate doctoral studies in sociology, Faculty of and Social Sciences University of Zagreb 2006. Bachelor of sociology and croatology, Croatian Studies University of Zagreb

Additional education: 2016. Research visit at University of (one month) 2016. Research visit at University of Cardiff (one month) 2014. Education on teaching Holocaust in Yad Vashem, Israel 2013. Academy for Political Development, Croatian branch of the Council of Europe project Schools of Political in Zagreb. 2010. GESIS – Leibniz Institute für Sozialwissenschaften at EUROLAB-u (financed by FP7 European Commission) – research scholarship within the project Religiosity and Secularity as Causal Variables in Quantitative Models. 2010. GESIS – Leibniz Institute für Sozialwissenschaften at EUROLAB-u (financed by FP7 European Commission) – research scholarship within the project Religiosity, Secularity and Plurality as Causal Variables in Quantitative Models. 2010. International Summer School organized by Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen with the topic Religion in Public Life (Cortona, ) 2007.-2009. Religions and Values: Central and Eastern European Research Network (financed by FP7 European Commission) – three time awarded with scholarship. 2007.→ Participation at annual postgraduate course Future of Religion at Inter-University Centre in Dubrovniku (in continuo).

Employment: 2016. → Research associate at Institute for Social Research in Zagreb – Centre for Research in Social Inequalities and Sustainability (Head of Centre) 2013.-2016. Postdoctoral fellow at Institute for Social Research in Zagreb – Centre for Research in Social Inequalities and Sustainability 2007.-2013. Institute for Social Research in Zagreb – research assistant

Research projects and consultation work:

2018 → Formal education in function of sustainable development, University of Rijeka (member of research team); funded by Croatian Science Foundation. 2018.-2019. H2020-MSCA-NIGHT project: European Researchers´ Night – Techno-Past Techno- Future. 2016 → Social stratification in Croatia: structural and subjective aspects, (member of research team); funded by Croatian Science Foundation. 2016. → Research of implementation and impact of ERASMUS+ programme - The Agency for Mobility and EU Programmes (project leader). Funded by the Agency. 2016. → Participatory governing of natural resources – Institute for Social Research in Zagreb (principle investigator). Project partner Society for Sustainable Development Design. Project funded within IPA 2012. 2015.-2016. New Paradigms in Sustainability Research in Zagreb: Green Economy and the Well- being of the Youth (ESF), Institute for Social Research in Zagreb (principal investigator) 2015. Through Knowledge to Warm Home – researching poverty (ESF), Society for Sustainable Development Design 2014. EQUI-HEALTH: Fostering health provision for migrants, the Roma, and other vulnerable groups; European Commission’s Directorate General for Health and Consumers (DG SANCO) by direct grant awarded to International Organization of Migration 2013. – 2015. Regional support for inclusive education; Council of Europe and 2007. – 2013. Minor religious communities as actors of religious change in Croatia, principal investigator: prof.dr.sc. Ankica Marinović, Institute for Social Research in Zagreb 2007.-2009. REVACERN – Religion and Values: Central and Eastern European Research Newtwork. 2007. → ISSP - International Social Survey Program, Institute for Social Research in Zagreb (permanent member of the research team). 2013. CLICK – Increasing the understanding of EU climate and energy policy and its impacts in everyday life (EU-IPA Info 2012), Society for Sustainable Development Design. 2013. Social and Economic impacts of National Foundation for Civil Society Development, National Foundation for Civil Society Development 2011. Attitudes and experiences of non-religious parents toward religion and religious instruction in public schools in Republic of Croatia, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Forum for Freedom in Education. 2010. Religiosity and Secularity as Causal Variables in Quantitative Models, GESIS – Leibniz Institute für Sozialwissenschaften (Köln, ). 2010. Religiosity, Secularity and Plurality as Causal Variables in Quantitative Models, GESIS – Leibniz Institute für Sozialwissenschaften (Köln, Germany).

Teaching: 2018./2019. Assistant professor for the course Religion and social issues at the Faculty of Law University of Zagreb

2016. Assistant professor at the University of Rijeka () 2016-2017. Teaching assistant at the Faculty of Law University of Zagreb, Department of Sociology – course: Sociology

2014.-2015. Teaching assistant at the Faculty of Law University of Zagreb, Department of Sociology – course: Sociology

2012.-2013. Teaching assistant at the Croatian Studies University of Zagreb, Department of Sociology – course: Sociology of Croatian Society: Religious changes in Croatian society.

Other scientific and expert work:

2019. → President of Croatian Sociological Association 2018. → President Forum for Freedom in Education 2018. → Member op programme committee of Green academy – Institute for Political Ecology 2015. → Vice-president of Croatian Sociological Association 2015. → Head of the section of Sociology of Religion of Croatian Sociological Association 2014. → Member of the editorial board of the journal JAHR – European Journal of Bioethics 2014. → Treasurer of International Study of Religion in Central and Eastern Europe Association (ISORECEA) 2013.→ Administrative Secretary of International Society for the Sociology of Religion. 2012.→ Member of the Governing body of the Forum for Freedom in Education. 2011.→ Executive editor of international journal Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe. 2008.–2012. Secretary of the journal Sociology and Space (Sociologija i prostor) – journal for spatial and socio-cultural development studies. 2007.–2011. Two terms Secretary of Croatian Sociological Association. 2008.→ Educator in Forum for Freedom in Education in the area of: anticorruption education, European union education, civic education.

Organization of international meetings and conferences: 2019. Member of of programme comitee of 7th National Congress of Croatian Sociological – Social cohesion in society of polarisation, conflicts and inequalities, Zagreb, Croatia 2017. Head of programme comitee of 6th National Congress of Croatian Sociological – Structure and dynamics of social inequalities, Zagreb, Croatia. 2015. Member of the Organizing Committee of National Congress of Croatian Sociological Association Normality of crisis – crisis of normality, Zagreb, Croatia. 2012. Member of the Organizing Committee 2012. ISSP Annual Meeting, Cavtat, Croatia. 2011. Member of the Organizing Committee of National Congress of Croatian Sociological Association Sociology and Changes – Challenges of the Future, Zagreb, Hrvatska. 2010. Member of the Organizing Committee of the international conference Qualitative transitions: Issues of Methodology in Central and South-East European Sociologies, Rijeka, Croatia. 2009. Member of the Organizing Committee of National Congress of Croatian Sociological Association Social Changes and Social Structure: Croatia Twenty Years after, Zagreb, Croatia.

Membership: 2019. → European Sociological Association 2018. → International Sociological Association 2014. → International Society for the Sociology of Religion 2013. → Academy for Political Development 2007. → International Study of Religion in Central and Eastern Europe Association (ISORECEA) 2006. → Croatian Sociological Association (CSD) 2005. → Forum for Freedom in Education (FFE)

Bibliography available at http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=300040&lang=EN