Doc. dr. Sara Atanasova
1. Online health communities and online support groups: participation and interaction patterns, empowerment process, different types of users (patients, caregivers, health professional moderators), online social support exchange, structural characteristics of online communities/groups (formation of rules, moderation, norms, sanctions)
2. Doctor-patient interaction and impact of ICT: trust in doctor, empowerment in doctor-patient relationship, decision-making process, adherence, access to health care services
3. Online health related seeking behaviour, e-health literacy, trust in health-related information, credibility of information and strategies for assessing credibility of information
4. Use of qualitative and quantitative data collection methods in contexts of online (health) communities and online support groups
Zn. sod. dr. Barbara Brečko
Topics in the Field of Digital Competences/Skills and Digital Citizenship:
1. The relationship between various factors and digital competences of youth (data available)
2. Measuring digital competences: Analysis of existing methods, methodological approaches to measuring digital competences, etc.
3. Digital citizenship: conceptualization, digital citizenship in education
4. Domains of digital citizenship, e.g.: disinformation/online violence/rights online, etc. (measurement/occurrence/recognition/correlation or impact of various factors/education...)
Doc. dr. Marjan Cugmas
1. Network analysis (application of blockmodeling, ERGM, SAOM, and other methods for network analysis), multivariate analysis, SEM, GLM, data visualisation
2. Patterns and mechanisms of scientific collaboration in the context of doctoral student supervision (analysis of already collected survey data; in Slovene)
3. Evaluation of selected aspects of the online counselling service (only in Slovene language)
Izr. prof. dr. Vesna Dolničar
1. Acceptability of ICT-supported services among older people, informal carers and patients in health and social care settings
2. Psychosocial outcomes of using ICT-supported services among older people, informal carers and patients in health and social care settings
3. Content validity of the EQ-HWB among elderly social care users in Slovenia and Hungary
Prof. dr. Valentina Hlebec
1. Comparison of offline and online focus groups in survey questionnaire testing
2. Methodological aspects of the use of focus groups among older adults
3. Methodological factors of quality of role generators in social support surveys
4. Informal caring and social support and quality of life
Prof. dr. Tina Kogovšek
1. Measurement in survey research
2. Measuring social networks
3. Social support
4. Quality of measurement (reliability, validity)
5. Intimate lifestyles of students in Slovenia (partnerships, practices, attitudes, health)
Doc. dr. Luka Kronegger
1. Topics in the field of sociology of science: scientific cooperation, bibliographic analyzes, citation networks
2. Topics related to the activities of stakeholders that are active in the field of childhood obesity or aging (analysis)
3. Analysis of any network (at student’s choice) - stochastic modeling of social processes as building mechanisms of social networks
4. Alternatives - overcoming the monopolies of tech giants and digital sovereignty
5. Data governance
6. Usage of different approaches to analysing and collecting/harvesting data from the web
Doc. dr. Bojana Lobe
1. Online expert interviews: methodological challenges
2. Comparison of the use of online and traditional qualitative expert interviews
3. Data quality in the integration of qualitative and quantitative methods
4. Methodological challenges of video online focus groups
5. Comparison of online dyad interviews and focus groups
Izr. prof. dr. Katja Lozar Manfreda
1. Quality of big data in comparison to survey data
2. Use of gen AI in survey research
3. Methodology of web surveys
Prof. dr. Andrej Mrvar
1. Analysis of any large network
Prof. dr. Gregor Petrič
1. GenAI Literacy: Systematic review, conceptualization, operationalization, and influencing factors.
2. Use of Multiple Conversational AI Agents to Simulate Social Processes: Simulation of social processes in digital social systems (e.g., online communities such as Discord channels, subreddits). A multi-agent AI infrastructure is already in place. Possibility of collaboration with a company specializing in AI architecture.
3. Impact of Governance Models of Digital Social Systems on Communication Quality: Topics include communication quality, echo chambers, and opinion polarization. Use of artificial intelligence to measure various aspects of interactions in digital social systems. Possibility of collaboration with researchers from the United States.
4. Information Security Competencies of Older Adults (65+): Systematic review, experiences, security abuses, protective mechanisms, and victimization. Opportunity to participate in a project and in data collection.
5. Multilevel Approach to Explaining Information Security Behavior in Organizations: Data has already been collected.
6. Use of IRT (Item Response Theory) in Measuring Information Security Behavior, Knowledge, and Attitudes
7. Topics in the Field of Blockchain Technology: Analysis of the usability of decentralized applications, consensus mechanisms, trust and blockchain technologies, and the manifestation of decentralization ideals and techno-utopianism in blockchain-related discourse.
Izr. prof. dr. Andraž Petrovčič
1. Heuristic analysis as an expert method for usability evaluation (historical overview, conceptual and analytical approaches to the development and use of heuristics, forms and methods of heuristics validation)
2. Usability testing of responsive websites (comparison of websites on large and small screens)
3. Comparison of models for explaining information privacy concerns: an analysis of conceptual foundations and/or operationalization of explanatory factors
4. Digital skills training methods and approaches for older adults
5. Information privacy among older adults in the context of (non)use of new technologies (e.g., internet, mobile applications, services for independent living at home)
6. Factors, forms and consequences of proxy internet use among internet users and non-users (empirical data already collected and available for analysis)
7. Digital inequalities in Slovenia before and after the COVID-19 pandemic (empirical data already collected and available for analysis)
8. Algorithmic literacy: conceptualisation, determinants, consequences (empirical data already collected and available for analysis)
9. Analysis and optimisation of conversion and purchase funnels on websites (the candidate must have access to analytical data in Google Analytics 4)
10. Analysis and optimisation of attribution models in multi-channel digital marketing (the candidate must have access to analytical data in Google Analytics 4)
Izr. prof. dr. Damjan Škulj
1. Use of methods for analysing waiting times (in health, public administration, etc.)
2. Data analytics in use (smart cities, telecommunications, sales, e-commerce, insurance business, etc.)
3. Use of Markov chains in social sciences (social mobility, social networks, etc.)
4. Recommender systems in various areas (tourism, sales, online dating,etc.)
5. Use of decision making according to several criteria (ecology, urban planning, energy, etc.)
6. Applications of text mining (Twitter, news articles, etc.)
7. Applications of language models OpenAI in social science research
Prof. dr. Vasja Vehovar
1 Online surveys: statistical, methodological, technical, usability and marketing aspects (various topics).
2. Standardized profile of ICT usage for the needs of online panels (co-mentor Zenel Batagelj, Valicon)
3. A comparison of probabilistic and non-probabilistic online panels
4. Speeders in online surveys
5. Evaluation and development of the 1KA.si tool (various topics)
6. Empirical analysis of hate speech and disinformation (based on data from the ARIS CRP project)
7. Student evaluation surveys (various topics)
8. Online voting tools
Prof. dr Aleš Žiberna
1. Evaluation of different types of blockmodeling
2. Comparison of different types of searching for the "optimal solution" within block modeling
3. Building and analyzing networks based on available data or data sources (e.g., social network APIs)
4. Other topics in the field of network analysis
5. Use of simulations for analyzing statistical methods or for preparing recommendations regarding their use
6. Creation of a package for R for one of the poorly supported statistical methods (for example, clustering with relational constraint)
7. Improving options for a chosen multivariate method in SPSS through the development of an SPSS extension ("Extension")
8. Anything where the focus is on the use of multivariate methods, data mining methods, or network analysis (can be under co-mentorship or as a co-mentor).
9. Development of a web application in the field of statistics or data analysis (e.g., for results of certain queries, for learning statistics, for interactive display of results of a specific study, data sets ... for example from ADP), recommended use of the Shiny/Shiny server package (R), a combination of Python + pandas + Dash/Plotly or Python + pandas + Shiny is also possible.
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