Associate members

mag. Marjeta Tratnik Volasko

(Representative of the professional public)

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dr. Vinko Potočnik

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Associate professor at the Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana

Darka Podmenik, PhD

Senior researcher

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Holds a MSc in Communication Sciences and PhD in Sociology, currently a senior researcher at the IRSA institute. Her research focuses mainly on the transition of educated youth from schooling to work, active citizenship, qualitative and quantitative methods in the social sciences. Currently, she leads the Slovene team of the international project UC-Crowd and is the senior researcher at the CONTEST project.

For a number of years, she has been investigating models of evaluation to be applied to universities, as well as investments in higher education. She lectured on Sociology of Mass Media at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, as well as on Youth Unemployment at the Faculty for Applied Social Sciences, Nova Gorica and at the Faculty for Information Sciences, Novo Mesto, Slovenia.

Selected bibliography

Blaž Lenarčič PhD.

External Member

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Primarily engaged in studying the social dynamics in cyberspace. In doing so, he is particularly interested in the effects of the new information and communication technologies on Social capital. In addition, his research scope includes the socio-spatial changes in urban locations as a result of the development and use of such technologies.

Uroš Gojkovič, PhD

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Uroš Gojkovič graduated in 2011 at the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Social Sciences from sociology and political science. He is a PhD student in sociology at the Faculty of Applied Social Studies. His PhD thesis deals with the socio-cultural dimensions of knowledge transfer in the context of academic entrepreneurship. Since 2013 he is a junior researcher at the Institute for Strategic and Development Analysis and participates in the research program "Sociocultural and organizational aspects of the transfer of knowledge and technology."

Dane Podmenik-Adam

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Maja Leber

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Maja Leber is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty for Advanced Social Studies, supervised by Frane Adam. Her research topic is the influence of social capital on regional development.