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

Doc. dr. Darja Grošelj

1. Motivational factors of everyday life internet use
2. Factors of mobile internet access and mobile internet use in everyday life
3. Outcomes of internet use Adoption and use of Internet of Things (IoT) technology
4. Factors and outcomes of e-commerce use in Slovenia

Izr. prof. dr. Mitja Hafner- Fink

1. The concept of citizenship in the framework of international surveys (e.g. ISSP, ESS). Several different topics that address research problems are possible: the problem of operationalization of different concepts, going beyond the classical concept of citizenship …
2. Indicators of the socio-economic status in social sciences survey (several specific topics are possible: Slovenia, international and intertemporal comparisons, comparison of various international survey programs such as ESS, ISSP, EVS, etc.
3. Various topics based primarily on the analysis of national survey data (e.g., SJM) or international social survey data (e.g., ISSP, ESS, EVS/WVS)

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

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 in the field of cultural marketing (analysis)
3. Topics related to the activities of stakeholders that are active in the field of childhood obesity or ageing (analysis)
4. Analysis of any network (at student’s choice)
5. 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

Prof. dr. Andrej Mrvar

1. Analysis of any large network

Prof. dr. Gregor Petrič

1. Online (health) communities and online interaction: information credibility, online communities on Twitter, trust processes
2. Information security culture: factors of careful use of ICT, security issues and smartphone use, models of information security culture, etc.
3. Discourses in online domains: polarization of opinions, regulation, cooperation (Reddit, Discord groups, Twitter, Facebook groups, etc.)
4. Topics related to the collaboration with the Institute of Oncology in Ljubljana: cancer diseases and information retrieval on the internet, internet use and trust in the doctor
5. Methodological topics: methodological experiments at the level of studying online communities, surveying via Twitter, survey mode effects and data quality on social networks (secondary data collected and available for analysis), methodological experiments at the level of testing the theory of planned behaviour (secondary data collected and available for analysis)
6. Topics in blockchain technology: role of community in the performance of blockchain companies, willingness to accept and use (selected) decentralized applications and cryptocurrencies, democratic potential of blockchain technology, effects of participatory monetization

Doc. dr. Andraž Petrovčič

1. Utilization of user experience research in the designing of digital services within companies in Slovenia
2. 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)
3. Use of social network-based mobile and web apps (e.g., Strava, Garmin Connect) for tracking physical activity
4. Comparison of models for explaining information privacy concerns: an analysis of conceptual foundations and/or operationalization of explanatory factors
5. Digital skills training methods and approaches for older adults
6. 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)
7. Factors, forms and consequences of proxy internet use among internet users and non-users (secondary data collected and available for analysis)
8. Validation of a survey measurement instrument for measuring digital skills among internet users (secondary data collected and available for analysis)
9. Algorithmic knowledge and literacy: conceptualization, factors, consequences

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. Use of decision making according to several criteria (ecology, urban planning, energy, etc.)
5. Other aspects of data mining in business (CRM, fraud prevention, etc.)

Prof. dr. Vasja Vehovar

1. Student evaluation of teaching (SET) surveys: conceptual and methodological challenges (see ul.1ka.si, especially the experiment).
2. Web surveys: statistical, methodological, technical, UX, managerial and comparative aspects. . Examples of current topics: paradata analysis, GDPR aspects, analysis of Slovenian and international market, comparison of software tools … (see WebSM in 1KA.si).
3. Tools for online voting: selected aspects.
4. Process of writing diploma/master thesis – meta-analysis (see diplomiranje.si).
5. Lottery incentives in surveys

Izr. prof. dr Aleš Žiberna

1. Evaluation of different types of generalized block modeling on empirical networks
2. Analysis of any network with generalized block modeling
3. Analysis of any network
4. Analyses based on data from Twitter, publicly accessible part of Facebook or similar data. It can be an analysis of content, “links” or both (good knowledge of R or Python is required)
5. Anything where the emphasis is on the use of multivariate methods or data mining methods (possible with co-mentorship)
6. Making an add-on for R commander for some kind of (preferably, multivariate) statistical method. The add-on should be programmed in R
7. Automatic generation of reports using statistical package R and Sweave/Knitr (the candidate needs his/her own research problem)
8. Creating a web application in the field of statistics or data analysis (e.g., for the results of queries, for learning statistics, for interactive display of the results of a particular survey, data – e.g., from ADP), recommended use of the Shiny/Shiny server (R)