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

Dr. Barbara Brečko, Research associate
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, data visualisation
2. Patterns and mechanisms of scientific collaboration in the context of doctoral student supervision (analysis of already collected survey data) (available in fall 2024) 
3. Evaluation of selected aspects of the online counseling service (only in Slovene language)
4. Implementation of statistical methods into SPSS (“Extensions”)

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

Izr. prof. dr. Mitja Hafner - Fink
1. 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 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 
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

Izr. prof. dr. Katja Lozar Manfreda
1. Quality of big data in comparison to survey data
2. Usage analytics in online classrooms

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

Izr. prof. dr. Andraž Petrovčič 
1. User interfaces and learnability (the candidate must have the opportunity and ability to independently conduct usability tests with end-users at multiple time points) 
2. Usability testing of responsive websites (comparison of website layouts on large and small screens) 
3. Exploring the structure of hierarchical menus on websites using classification methods (laddering, repertory grids, card sorting) 
4. Comparison of models to explain information privacy concerns: analysis of conceptual definition and/or operationalization of factors 
5. Social media fatigue and privacy cynicism 
6. Information privacy among older adults in the context of (non-)use of new technologies (e.g. internet, mobile apps, home-based services for independent living) 
7. Determinants of internet users’ ability to identify deep fakes on the web 
8. Algorithmic literacy: conceptualization, determinants, consequences (empirical data already collected) 
9. Drivers, forms and consequences of proxy internet use among internet users and non-users (empirical data already collected) 
10. Analysis and optimization of conversion and purchase funnels on websites (candidate must have full access to 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, user, managerial and marketing aspects (various topics). Specific topics:
- Standardized profile of ICT use for the needs of online panels (co-mentor Zenel Batagelj, Valicon)
- A comparison of probabilistic and non-probabilistic online panels
- Speeders in online surveys
- Evaluation and development of the 1KA.si tool (various topics)
2. Empirical analysis of hate speech and disinformation (based on data from the ARIS CRP project)
3. Student evaluation surveys (various topics)