Nevenka Zegarac works as a Full Professor and Director of MA Social Work program at the Department of Social Work and Social Policy, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade. She teaches social work with children and youth, case management and qualitative approaches in social work research. She has extensive experience in development and delivery of trainings for front line practitioners and training of trainers.
Nevenka has more than 20 years of experience of consultancy in West Balkan region with a number of governments, and international organisations such as UNICEF, Save the Children, Terre de Homes, IOM, UNDP and ILO. Her areas of interests include case management, child abuse and neglect, children on alternative care, family support, child trafficking, child’s participation and professional development of social service workforce. Prof Zegarac is the member of Steering Committee Global Social Service Workforce Alliance.
She is author of six, editor of six and co-author of ten social work books, more than thirty chapters in monographs and handbooks, and more than fifteen articles published in scientific journals.