Anita Burgund Isakov is an Assistant Professor at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Science, Department of Social Policy and Social Work were she teaches courses on child and youth social work, social work with client, communication skills and counselling. Anita is a manager of the Centre for Research in Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Science.

As a researcher, she was involved in a variety of projects in the domain of social welfare and child protection, as well as migrant child protection. She has published 35 papers in the area of her expertise.

Migration-related publications

  1. Žegarac, N., Burgund Isakov, A., Perišić, N., Marković, V. (forthcoming). Response system for the migrant children in Serbia: challenges for the rights-based approach – book chapter. Sarajevo: ERMA.
  2. Žegarac, N., Perišić, N., Burgund Isakov, A., Lončarević, K, Marković, V. (2021). Zaštita dece u migracijama – pristup zasnovan na pravima. Beograd: Fakultet političkih nauka.
  3. Žegarac, N., Perišić, N., Burgund Isakov, A., Lončarević, K, Marković, V. (2021). Zaštita dece u migracijama – praksa centrirana ka detetu. Beograd: Fakultet političkih nauka.
  4. Branković, I., Burgund Isakov, A. (2108). Child protection of children on the move -Serbian context. HUMAN Research in Rehabilitation Journal for Interdisciplinary studies.
  5. Burgund, A. Branković, I. (2016). Zaštita dece migranata u Srbiji – iskustva i preporuke. Socijalna politika, 51, 9–24

Migration-related projects

“Co-Creation of Knowledge and Building of Expertise for the Protection of Children Affected by Migration and Forced Displacement”, 2019-2020, funded by the UNICEF – designing of a course for social work students at the level of under-graduate studies for the support to migrant children.

Violence against Children on the Balkans migration route – Solutions through Advocacy and Research ( STAR): CISSTAR,  2021/2022, funded by the Save the Children International Office for northwest Balkan (SCI) and University of Sarajevo.