Social Sciences Research Institute

Authors doc. Dr Simona Hvalič Touzery, Mojca Šetinc and Assoc. prof. Dr Vesna Dolničar from the Centre for Social Informatics at the UL FDV, among others, noted that the positive effects of using the tested service were: increased physical activity, awareness of its importance and a greater sense of security.

Behavior change practitioners and police makers often claim to #empower people. But do they?

Dr. Simona Zavratnik (Center for Spatial Sociology), M.A. Živa Broder and Rebeka Falle Zorman (Public Opinion Research Center) attended WAPOR 71st Annual Conference: Public Opinion Research in a Changing World. They presented a paper: Public opinion and migration: the case study from a Slovenian perspective, which was published in »Teorija in praksa« in 2017

On 1 May, a new research project RePAST – Strengthening European Integration through the analysis of conflicting discourses: revisiting the past, anticipating the future was launched. The project builds its enthusiasm around the process of European integration, which is, in the recent period, due to radicalization, reactionary policies, populism, migrant and refugee crisis, and the financial crisis, facing major challenges.