Nikola Baketa
Research associate
- Researcher’s unique code: 363301
- Job title: Research associate
- Field of interest: Civic education, youth civic competence, youth work
Qualifications, scientific advancement and education
Research associate in social sciences, field of political science
Postgraduate doctoral school Comparative politics (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Political Science)
MA in Political Science – Comparative Politics (Central European University, Budapest)
MA in Political Science – Public Policy (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Political Science)
BA in Political Science (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Political Science)
Research projects
Research team member, Development of a Self-assessment Tool to Measure Adolescent and Youth Participation in Public Life Within a Country
Project leader, Research on the Political Literacy of High School Students
Research team member, ESF project: Thematic Network Lifelong Education Accessible to All (TEMCO), Institute for the Development of Education
Research team member, (Re)building society: A longitudinaly study of post-corona social recovery in Croatian general population
Project leader, Innovate Debate: Applied Curriculum for Debate Based Youth Work
Research team member, Regulation of Prostitution in Croatia
Research team member, Analysis of the Conditions and Needs in Secondary Education Related to Informing on Higher Education Choices and Procedures for Enrollment on Study Programmes Through the Central Applications Office
Research team member, Institute for Social Research – Selection of Study Programmes, Educational Achievements and Family Origin: Horizontal Differences in The Higher Education System
Research team member, GOOD Initiative: Towards Civic Education in Schools
Research team member, Impact Evaluation of Lifelong Learning Programme on Participating Education Institutions
Research team member, NORGLOBAL research project – European Integration in Higher Education and Research in the Western Balkan
Selected bibliography
Bovan, K., & Baketa, N. (2022). Stablity and/or Change? Institutional Trust in Croatia in 1999-2020. Croatian Sociological Review, 52(1), 31-60.
Bovan, K., Baketa, N., Kovačić, M., & Čorkalo Biruški, D. (2022). Trust us, we know what we are doing: institutional trust in Croatia during the COVID-19 crisis. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 1-22.
Baketa, N., Bovan, K., & Matić Bojić, J. (2021). Research on the Political Literacy of High School Students in Croatia: 2021 Research Report.
Kovačić, M., Baketa, N., & Grubišić-Čabo, M. (2020). Mapping youth studies curricula: what is formal education in the field of youth studies saying about young people?. Youth Worker Education In Europe, 137.
Teaching activity
- 2017
Teaching assistant at ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques - 2016 – today
Lecturer on research methodology and civic education, Youth Studies - 2014 – 2015
Lecturer at professional development programme – Methods of non-formal education in civic education - 2014
Teaching Assistant at Introduction to Public Policies, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Political Science - 2013 – 2014
Deputy Head of the Postgraduate specialist university study programme “Croatian Education policy in the European Context” - 2012 – 2014
Teaching Assistant at Europeanization of Public Policies, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Political Science
Memberships and functions
- 2019 - today
Executive Committee, Croatian Political Science Assosiation - 2017 – today
Programme Council, Croatian Radio Television - 2016 – today
Member of the Croatian Debate Society - 2015 – today
Coordination Committee, GOOD initative