VIKO – Vaidotas Valantiejus

Since 2024 associate professor at the Faculty of Pedagogy, Vilniaus kolegija / Higher Education Institution.

Since 2022 lecturing on social policy and security, the law of social work etc. at Vilniaus kolegija / Higher Education Institution.

2014: PhD in the field of social sciences. The topic of dissertation – “Post-communism as the Form of the Political”.

Since 2011 has lectured at Vilnius University, Kaunas University of Technology, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences. Main topics: political sociology, political theory, social policy.

Main academic interests: post-communism, deliberative democracy, welfare state.