Assistant Nina Žnidaršič
Nina Žnidaršič (1993) is a junior researcher and PhD student at the Social Communication Research Centre at the Faculty of Social Sciences since 2020. Her PhD project Avtonomija novinarstva in novinarjevega delovanja v Socialistični federativni republiki Jugoslaviji [Autonomy of Journalism and the Journalist’s Action in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia] examines the social and political influences on journalism and its autonomy in socialist Yugoslavia. In particular, she focuses on the journalist's ability to act and create an autonomous space for professional journalistic work within the Yugoslav social and political system. She completed her undergraduate studies in Journalism (2018) and her postgraduate studies in Sociology (2020) at the Faculty of Social Sciences; in parallel, she studied Philosophy and Sociology at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. She completed her postgraduate studies in Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences with her master's thesis O historično-epistemološko zasnovi moderne znanosti in o klasičnem pozitivizmu v sociologiji [On the Historical-Epistemological Base of Modern Science and Classical Positivism in Sociology]. Her main areas of interest include History of journalism, history of political ideas, political philosophy and theory, philosophy of science and epistemology.
As a junior researcher, she presented her own research findings and reflections at national and international scientific conferences: CEECOM (2021), at the symposium Protislovja medijev in novinarstva v socialistični Jugoslaviji at the Institute of Contemporary History (2022), at the doctoral conference New Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana (2023), the scientific conference Krize i reforme at the Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism in Pula (2023), the international workshop SZDL – kdaj, zakaj, kako at the Institute of Contemporary History (2023), the doctoral conference (Re)searching Power: Emerging Approaches Across Disciplines at the Central European University in Vienna (2024). She has also participated in doctoral schools of the academic organisation ECREA at the University of Roskilde (2023) and at the Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism in Pula (2023). As part of the Erasmus+ internship for PhD students, she was a guest student at the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade in May 2023 for the purpose of carrying out research work as part of a doctoral project. Between October and December 2023, she was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. Between 2020 and 2022, she was involved in the research project The Role of Communication Inequalities in Disintegration of a Multinational Society (J5-1793). Since 2022, she has been involved in the project Media Landscape in Slovenia between Pluralisation and Homogenisation (V5-2297)