Job title: Research assistant
Barbara Lovrinić Higgins is a Research Assistant at the Department for Culture and Communication at IRMO, and a PhD candidate at the Cultural and Media Management Doctoral Studies at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. She holds a Postgraduate Degree in Diplomacy and International Relations (2019), and a Master Degree in French language and literature, and Museology and Heritage Management (2013) from the University of Zagreb. Her research is related to the issues of cultural policies, cultural memory and digitisation of cultural heritage, which is the topic of her doctoral thesis. In 2019, she worked as an external collaborator and was a member of analytical team for the purposes of the publication “Overview of cultural development and cultural policies in the Republic of Croatia”. She provided analytical and written output contributions regarding issues of cultural and digital policies through her diverse EU projects participation (Horizon project SoPHIA 2020-2021; Jean Monnet projects CULPOL, 2016 – 2018; and EULEAD, 2018 –2019). From 2017 to 2020 she worked as Assistant to the Editor in Chief of the academic journal Croatian International Relations Review (CIRR). Her knowledge and skills regarding multilateral relations between institutions have been gained through her previous work experience at the Court of Justice in Luxembourg as well as Diplomacy Postgraduate studies.