Profile
Katarina is a Research Assistant in the CCRI. Katarina has previously worked as a Deputy director and Project manager for an NGO VOKA (Rural Organization for Community Activities) in Slovakia. Her main interest and area of work were integrated rural development, and employment and economy development in rural areas. She has Masters of Arts in Archeology (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
Katarina is also a part time PhD student at the CCRI. Her thesis research entitled 'Investigation of decision making processes within integrated rural development programmes' will investigate participatory approaches in the decision making process during the preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the integrated rural development strategies (LEADER type). She is supervised by Dr. Janet Dwyer and Professor Malcolm Moseley.
