is an associate professor at the Faculty of Teacher Education at the University of Rijeka, where she teaches the courses Pedagogy of Sustainable Development and Didactics of teaching school subject Nature and Society. She is the author of numerous scientific papers, university textbook, handbook and scientific monographs. She has been a collaborator of several scientific projects and head of the UNIRI plus project ” connectedness with nature, the organization of early school-aged students’ free time and digital technologies”. From 2016 to 2019, she was the head of the Department of Methods of Natural and Social Sciences and is currently the head of the Department of Social Sciences at the Faculty of Teacher Education in Rijeka. She was and is a member of several committees at faculty and university level (Erasmus Coordinator (2013), Chair of the Ethics Committee (until 2023), member of the Disciplinary Committee, member of the Committee for the Recognition of Prior Learning, several mandates as a member of the University Committee for the Academic Recognition of Study Periods and Foreign Degrees, member of the Publications Committee of the Faculty of Education in Rijeka, founder and head of the Alumni Club of the Faculty of Education in Rijeka, member of the Examination Board for the professional examinations for teachers in the counties of Primorje-Gorski Kotar, Lika-Senj and Istria) and member of the editorial board of several scientific journals. In the academic year 2022/2023, she received the award for excellence in teaching from the University of Rijeka.

is a full-time professor of psychology and Vice dean for science and quality assurance at the Faculty of Teacher Education in Rijeka. She teaches the following courses: General Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Psychology of Early Learning and Teaching, Psychology of Learning and Teaching, Emotional Intelligence, The Psychology of Child Well-Being, Positive Psychology, Methodology of Quantitative Research, and the Micro qualification program Mental Health and Well-Being in Education, in which she teaches three courses: Teachers’ mental health, well-being and professional development; Mental health and well-being of children in the educational context; and PROMEHS curriculum for mental health in education. She is transferring her rich work experience from kindergarten, elementary school, high school and the health system in combination with modern research in her work with students of the Faculty of Teacher Education. Her research work is recognized in several areas of psychology: biological psychology, personality psychology (personality in education), positive psychology, well-being of children and teachers, transitional periods of children, and research methodology (development of measuring instruments). She is the winner of the award for Science of the Foundation of the University of Rijeka for ac. year 2014/15, and for Teaching Excellence of the University of Rijeka for ac. year. 2016/2017. She served as vice dean for study program development and quality assurance, head of the Department of Educational Sciences, member of the Quality Committee of the Faculty of Education, member of the University Quality Committee, member of the Ethics Committee, member of the university Committee for Student Loan Programs, and Erasmus and YUFE coordinator. She is the leader of seven scientific, professional and infrastructural projects. She wrote and published a total of 220 mostly scientific papers, four authored and five edited books, three scripts, seven manuals and two dictionaries. So far, she has mentored 55 students. She gave 170 presentations at various domestic and foreign scientific and professional conferences. She regularly conducts reviews, is a member of foreign editorial boards and a number of scientific and professional associations. She is the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Educational Topics and is the president of the European Network for Social-Emotional Competences of Children and Youth – ENSEC.

is a lecturer at the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Teacher Education, where she has been teaching sociological and methodological courses for the last ten years. Her research interests include economic socialisation of children and youth, discourses on children and childhoods, feminisation and social status of teaching professions, as well as value orientations and attitude structures of different populations in education system. She has published 19 research articles and book chapters, participated in over 20 scientific conferences and several scientific projects, including “The culture of an educational institution as a factor in the co-construction of knowledge” (13.10.2.2.01, University of Rijeka) and “Modernisation, Education and Human Rights” (Erasmus+, KA2).

graduated from the Faculty of Teacher Education in Rijeka in 2018. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Pedagogy at the postgraduate university program in Rijeka. She works as a classroom teacher at Kozala Elementary School in Rijeka and as an external associate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, within the Department of Pedagogy, where she conducts exercises in Didactics 2. Her research interests center on didactics, particularly exploring approaches, methods, and strategies for eSective learning and teaching across diverse contexts.