Psychology | Policy research | Psychometrics | Evaluation | Consulting | Publications | Courses | AI ventures
SEL, skill development and education, early childhood, creativity, metacognition, intelligence, and personality psychology.
Open sectionPolicy research, large-scale assessment, program evaluation, technical reporting, and cross-country measurement.
Follow this pathInstrument design, measurement invariance, latent variable modelling, research methods, and applied courses.
Follow this pathMeasurement and evaluation work packages for EU, UN, foundation, and donor-funded proposals.
Follow this pathEvidence-aligned assessment products, AI report logic, data-quality systems, and psychometric safeguards.
Follow this pathSelective co-founder, product strategy, scientific validation, and investment paths around AI-enabled assessment and evidence products.
Follow this pathEcosystem
The site is structured as an expert institution with an ecosystem map underneath it: personal authority first, then ventures, projects, services, publications, and resources connected by a common measurement and evidence logic.
Owned company brands
These company brands are owned and directed by Dr. Miloš Kankaraš. Each serves a distinct market and audience, while sharing the same foundation in psychological science, measurement quality, policy evidence, and technology-enabled delivery.
Consulting and technical assistance
B2B and international organization-facing vehicle for research, evaluation, policy analysis, project design, and consortium work.
Co-owner and technical lead
Expertise map
The through-line starts with psychology and extends into measurement quality: defining what matters, designing instruments, validating comparisons, and turning evidence into decisions.
Applying psychological science to learning, development, personality, creativity, and human potential.
Research and applied work across social and emotional learning, skill development and education, early learning, personality psychology, creativity, metacognition, and intelligence.
Work
A curated view of flagship work, active projects, founder-led products, and concepts that show the breadth of the professional system.
OECD period
Co-led and contributed to the design, psychometric framework, cross-country delivery, and reporting of the first large-scale international assessment of social and emotional skills.
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2025 to present
Current UNESCO consultancy focused on pilot study coordination, multi-language instruments, diagnostic toolkit development, analysis, reporting, and guidance materials.
2024
Led evaluation architecture and analysis across 20+ MGIEP educational program studies, including online courses, in-person workshops, and hybrid programs, with 150+ assessment scales and 1,000+ assessment questions implemented, and connected this work to the published UNESCO MGIEP Evaluation Research Framework.
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Eurofound period
Eurofound research on workplace practices, organizational patterns, performance, well-being, job quality, and work organisation in Europe, drawing on European Company Survey evidence and feeding into European policy reporting on the future of work.
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Minderoo period
Produced five research works for Minderoo Foundation on gender equality and violence against women and girls, including four published policy research reports on gender equality frameworks, global empirical evidence, VAWG intervention effectiveness, and domestic violence intervention effectiveness, plus a fifth research work on domestic violence in Australia.
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2020 to 2021
Led policy research on workplace learning using the 2019 European Company Survey evidence base, resulting in the Cedefop working paper Workplace Learning: Determinants and Consequences.
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2006 to 2014
University researcher and lecturer in cross-cultural methodology, psychometrics, latent class analysis, and comparative survey research, including the PhD thesis, book chapter, PISA comparability article, and a broader cluster of measurement-equivalence publications.
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Current
Privacy-forward digital platform for evidence-aligned psychological assessments, AI narrative reports, paid report unlocking, researcher seats, and future partner distribution.
Current
AdriaMont offer for consortia needing a senior M&E partner to own theory of change, indicator design, instruments, data collection, analysis, and final evaluation reporting.
Planned
Course and educational materials system for researchers, analysts, and professional teams, developed under the AdriaMont Institute label.
Current concept
Applied school-risk screening concept with instruments, scoring logic, heatmap reporting, and UNICEF-facing outreach materials.
Current concept
A research-facing Psychology.me offer for labs and applied teams that need validated instruments, participant reports, and exports to SPSS, R, Mplus, and CSV.
Publications
Psychology publications, policy reports, policy research, academic papers, books, chapters, evaluation frameworks, and related outputs with DOI, institutional, and public profile links where available.
New Delhi: UNESCO MGIEP
Evaluation research framework
Draft2Digital
Social and emotional skills
Frontiers in Education
Social and emotional skills
Gender Equality #1
Gender equality policy research
Gender Equality #2
Global gender equality evidence
Gender Equality #3
VAWG intervention evidence
Gender Equality #4
Domestic violence intervention evidence
Cedefop working paper series
Workplace learning
OECD Education Working Papers
Early childhood education
OECD Education Working Papers
Social and emotional skills
OECD Education Working Papers
Assessment methods
OECD Publishing
Education policy
OECD Education Working Papers
Early learning
OECD Education Working Papers
Social and emotional skills
Cross-Cultural Analysis: Methods and Applications
Measurement invariance
OECD Education Working Papers
Personality assessment
OECD Publishing
Adult skills
OECD Publishing
Adult skills country evidence
OECD Publishing
Adult skills country evidence
Adult Skills in Focus
Literacy proficiency
Eurofound
Workplace research
Encyclopaedia of Quality of Life Research
Latent class analysis
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Cross-cultural comparability
Employment and Social Developments in Europe 2014
Job quality and work organisation
Cross-Cultural Research
Cross-cultural attitudes
Sociological Methods and Research
Measurement equivalence
Methodology
Response bias
Psihologija
Measurement equivalence
CEPS/INSTEAD Working Paper Series
Cross-cultural attitudes
Doctoral dissertation
Measurement equivalence
Psihologija
Creativity
International Sociology
Solidarity attitudes
IRISS Working Paper Series
Response bias
IRISS Working Paper Series
Solidarity attitudes
Psihologija
Metacognition