Social Sciences Research Institute

Development through research.

We execute about 80 research projects annually, funded partly by the State and partly by contracts with other organizations or institutions.

News

Researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences presented a paper at WAPOR 2018 conference

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

4. July 2018 | Research, Event, International

[Research] RePAST – Strengthening European Integration through the analysis of conflicting discourses: revisiting the past, anticipating the future

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.

22. June 2018 | Research

Gender Differentiation and Media Industries

At the International conference Gender Differentiation and Media Industries organized by the Peace Institute and the Faculty of Social Sciences last week, the participants discussed gender inequalities in the media, at the intersection of media politics, production, representation and consumption.

18. June 2018 | Research, Event

[Science] Generating global network structures by triad types

The article, published in the scientific journal PLOS One, addresses the question of whether it is possible to generate the networks with a given global structure (operationalized by a blockmodel) with only considering the different triad types.

8. June 2018 | Research, Publikacija

The Social Sciences Research Institute is the largest research institute for Social Sciences in Slovenia. Research at the Institute is carried out within the framework of national and international research programmes. Intensive research is carried out within European Union research projects, but researchers and research centres are also involved in other international research.

VICE-DEAN for Research: izr. prof. dr. Iztok Prezelj.