Dr Vladimir Cvetković is the Institute Manager for the Institute of Global Health and Development Division at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø, Edinburgh.
- Overview
- Research Interests
Vladimir is a sociologist specialising in research, project management, and policy and institutional development in fragile and post-conflict contexts, including the Western Balkans, Afghanistan, and Georgia. He has extensive experience working with organisations such as the OSCE, UNDP, international NGOs, academia, and civil society, leading initiatives in community safety, minority inclusion, and institutional capacity building.
Before joining IGHD in 2021, Vladimir held diverse roles across international organisations, research institutions, and a Poland-based knowledge-sharing platform.
As a researcher and consultant, he has led and contributed to projects on gun culture and community safety (UNDP, Saferworld), regional cooperation (University of NiÅ¡), and research and evaluations on ethnic minorities and marginalised groups—particularly Roma—for organisations including the Open Society Foundations. He has also worked with colleagues at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø to strengthen research collaboration with partners across the Balkans, and is currently conducting research on youth and violence. During his PhD, he supported the Serbian Sociological Association’s international engagement and contributed to the development of an educational start-up in Poland and the Czech Republic.
In practice, Vladimir has focused on advancing human rights standards and inclusive public services. His experience includes delivering institutional capacity-building programmes for the OSCE in Kosovo, leading a national police capacity-building program on disbanding illegal armed groups and improving community security for UNDP in Afghanistan, and developing an impact evaluation toolkit for CARE International in rural Georgia.
At IGHD, Vladimir oversees communications, finance, planning, and the overall management of the Institute.
Affiliations
Serbian Sociological Association
International Sociological Association, RC14 Sociology of Communication, Knowledge & Culture
Economic culture, small arms control and gun culture, cultural contexts and policy implementation in institutional and social development, socioeconomic status of Roma communities.
Active research interests:
Youth and violence, structural and cultural foundations in comparative perspective.
Ideology, technology and social transformation.
Research Methods:
Qualitative & quantitative, Content Analysis, Grounded Theory, Social Mapping, Content Analysis, PC/Factor Analysis, Cluster Analysis. Visual EDA.
Research Centre:
Institute for Global Health and Development
