Academic and scientific titles
Doctor of Philosophy in Urban, community and regional planning at Heriot-Watt University, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Edinburgh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 2016 under the James-Watt Research Scholarship;
Master of Science in International spatial planning at Newcastle University, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 2011;
Bachellor of Architecture at University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, 2010.
Professional experience
From 2019. Research associate at Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia;
2018-2019. Research assistant at Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia;
2016-2017. Researcher within “ESPON Compass” project, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland;
2013-2015. Teaching Associate within the project “Deep Water – Urban Flooding in the 21st Century” at Heriot-Watt University, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society in Edinburgh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;
2012. Facilitator of participatory planning processes at Urban Development Program within GIZ project “Strengthening of local land management in Serbia”, Belgrade;
2012-2013. Trainee Architect at the Public Enterprise Town Planning Institute of Belgrade.
Participation in scientific research projects
2023. “Country profile of Serbia for the Knowledge and Communication Platform of the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association”, project financed by the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (Leibniz, Germany) – coordinator;
2023. “Safety of girls and women and girls in public space”, project financed by the UN WOMEN – public participation and stakeholder engagement expert;
2022. “Herausforderungen der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Kurorten in Deutschland und Serbien” (“Competitiveness Challenges of Spa Destinations in Germany and Serbia”), project financed by the Bavarian Research Alliance (Bayerische Forschungsallianz);
2021-2023. Green, livable, and resilient cities, Serbia: Strengthening Sustainable and Resilient Urban Development- Component 1 Selection # 1275674 Strengthening capacities of Local Self-Governments in Serbia towards low-carbon and resilient urban development investments expert, project financed by the World Bank – public participation and stakeholder engagement expert;
2020-2024. “Gender- and Climate- Just cities and regions”, project financed by the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (Leibniz, Germany);
2018-2019. “Co-designing smart Local solutions for Exploiting Values and Enhancing Resilience” (CLEVER) – international SMF INTERREG DTP project (DTP-SMF1-187);
2018-2020. “The role and implementation of the National Spatial Plan and Regional Development Documents in the Renewal of Strategic Research, Thinking and Governance in Serbia” (No. 47014);
2016-2017. “ESPON Compass – Comparative Analysis of Territorial Governance and Spatial Planning Systems in Europe”;
Prizes and awards
Grand Prix of the Salon of Urbanism at the 28th International Salon of Urbanism, Niš, November 8-13, 2019. Sustainable Urban Development Strategy of the Republic of Serbia until 2030. Authors: MA Đorđe Milić, Dr. Siniša Trkulja, Dr. Zoran Radosavljević, Dr. Marija Maksin, Dr. Slavka Zeković, Dr. Marina Nenković-Riznić, Dr. Božidar Manić, Dr. Omiljena Dželebdžić, Dr. Aleksandar Đukić, prof. Dr. Igor Jokanović, Dr. Jasna Petrić, Dr. Ana Niković, Dr. Natasa Danilović-Hristić, Dr. Tanja Bajić, Dr. Nataša Čolić, MA Borjan Brankov, Harald Miller, Dr. Ratka Čolić, Drago Babić, Johan Gauli, Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure of the Republic Of Serbia with the technical support of GIZ/AMBERO and the Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia – IAUS, project manager: Dr. R. Čolić, Exhibition catalogue of the 28th International Salon of Urbanism, November 8-13, 2019. Niš: Association of Urbanists of Serbia;
Nominated for the “MacFarlane Prize for Outstanding Postgraduate Doctoral Research”, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh (November 2016);
First Prize at the “PGR Research Impact: Making a Difference Event” for influential PhD research, presented by the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh (March 2016).
List of selected publications
Chapter in international monograph
Čolić, N., Dželebdžić, O., Čolić, R. (2023). Building on Recent Experiences and Participatory Planning in Serbia: Toward a New Normal. In: Lissandrello, E., Sørensen, J., Olesen, K., Steffansen, R.N. (eds) The ‘New Normal’ in Planning, Governance and Participation. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham., pp 41-56, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32664-6_4
Paper in international scientific journals and journals of international importance
Pantić, M., Čolić, N. (2023) Digital Participation Framework for Mountain Areas in Serbia, Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, No. 68, pp. 78-95. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/tras.68E.5
Živanović-Miljković, J., Dželebdžić, O., Čolić, N. (2022) Land-Use Change Dynamics of Agricultural Land within Belgrade–Novi Sad Highway Corridor: A Spatial Planning Perspective, Land, Vol. 11, No. 10, pp. 1691. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11101691
Čolić, N., Nedović-Budić, Z. (2021). Public interest as a basis for planning standards in urban development: state-socialist and post-socialist cases in Serbia, Journal of Planning Education and Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X211051421
Čolić, R., Milić, Đ., Petrić, J., Čolić, N. (2021). Institutional capacity development within the national urban policy formation process – participants’ views, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544211002188
Pantić, M., Čolić, N., Milijić, S. (2021). Golija-Studenica Biosphere Reserve (Serbia) as a Driver of Change, eco.mont – Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management, Vol. 13, pp. 58-69. https://dx.doi.org/10.1553/eco.mont-13-sis58
Čolić, N., Manić, B. Niković, A., Brankov, B. (2020). Grasping the framework for the urban governance of smart cities in Serbia. The case of INTERREG SMF project CLEVER, Spatium International Review, No. 43, pp. 26-34. https://doi.org/10.2298/SPAT2043026C
Čolić, N., Dželebdžić, O. (2018). Beyond formality: A contribution towards revising the participatory planning practice in Serbia, Spatium International Review, No. 39, pp. 17-25. https://doi.org/10.2298/SPAT1839017C
Čolić, N. (2017). Operationalizing the public interest in the local planning context of Serbia, Spatium International Review, No. 38, pp. 10-17. https://doi.org/10.2298/SPAT1738010C
Study, expertise
COMPASS – Comparative Analysis of Territorial Governance and Spatial Planning Systems in Europe, Final Report Luxembourg: ESPON EGTC. (2018). Authors: Nadine, V., Fernández, A. M. M., Zonneveld, W., Stead, D., Dąbrowski, M., Piskorek, K., Sarkar, A., Schmitt, P., Nordregio, L. S., Cotella, G., Janin Rivolin, U., Solly, A., Berisha, E., Pede, E., Komornicki, T., Goch, K., Bednarek-Szczepańska, M., Degórska, B., Szejgiec-Kolenda, B., Śleszyński, P., Seardo, B. M., Lüer, C., Böhme, K., Nedović-Budić, Z., Williams, B., Varghese, J., Čolić, N., Knaap, G., Csák, L., Faragó, L., Mezei, C., Kovács, I. P., Pámer, Z., Reimer, M., Münter, A. https://www.espon.eu/sites/default/files/attachments/1.%20COMPASS_Final_Report.pdf
COMPASS – Comparative Analysis of Territorial Governance and Spatial Planning Systems in Europe, Final Report – Additional Volume 5, Additional Countries Feasibility Report. Luxembourg: ESPON EGTC. (2018). Authors: Nadine, V., Cotella, G., Berisha, E., Nedović-Budić, Z., Čolić, N., and Erkut, G. https://www.espon.eu/sites/default/files/attachments/6.%20Volume_5_Additional_countries.pdf
List of selected professional results
Sustainable Urban Development Strategy of the Republic of Serbia until 2030. (“Official Gazette of RS”, No. 47/19) – facilitator of the participatory process of strategy formation and collaborator in the thematic area “Social Wellbeing”;
Guide for Participation in Urban Development Planning – Publication within the GIZ project “Strengthening of local land management in Serbia” in collaboration with Urban Development Program (2013). Authors: R. Čolić, Đ. Milić, M. Petković, N. Čolić. AMBERO consulting. ISBN: 978-86-914025-2-5. – facilitator of the participatory planning processes and coauthor of the Guide for Participation in Urban Development Planning.
Membership in scientific and professional associations, juries and bodies
Urban Europe Research Alliance – UERA
International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR);
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics – STEM Ambassador Hub (Edinburgh, UK);
Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Equalities Research Alumni, Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK).
g, Equalities Research Alumni, Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK)
Membership in the boards of scientific and professional journals
Technical Editor of the scientific Journal “Spatium” (since 2021);
Editorial Board of the scientific Journal “Arhitektura i Urbanizam” (since 2020).
Other
Visiting Lecturer in Urban development planning at the MSc Program International Spatial Planning, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Coordinator of MSc Program: Dr Suzanne Speak) (2014- 2015);
Teaching Associate within the scientific project “Deep Water – Urban Flooding in the 21st Century”, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Edinburgh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Project coordinator: Prof Grant Wright). She has participated as a mentor in international workshops on capacity building and awareness raising for flood defense in Scotland (2013-2015).
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