Leadership and competences:

• 1999 – Head of the Slovenian Migration Institute ZRC SAZU
• 2010 – Director of the international MA study ‘European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations’ at the School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica
• 2010 – Consortium committee member of the Europan Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations (Erasmus Mundus programme)
• 2011- Editor-in-charge of a scientific journal Dve domovini/Two Homelands (SSCI, SCOPUS)
• 2010 – Member of the Senate of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica
• 2014- Member of the Scientific Council of Humanities III, University of Nova Gorica
• 2004 – 2010 Member and vice president of the Board of Directors ZRC SAZU
• 2005-2013 Consortium committee member of the Joint MA study programme ‘Migration and Intercultural relations’

Project leader

International projects:

• 2002 – 2005 National coordinator of a Comenius project ‘Migration and Intercultural relations: Challenge for European Schools Today’ (leading partner: Stavanger University College, Norway)
• 2003 – 2006 National coordinator of a Comenius project ‘Www-supported Learning in Migration/Intercultural Relations – a Joint MA Programme for Collaborative Learning and Cultural Awareness 2005 – 2008 National coordinator of a Comenius project ‘Learning Migration’ (leading partner: Stavanger University College, Norway)

Projects financed by the European Social Fund:

• 2008 Project leader: Encouraging Intercultural Dialogue through Migration Research (for the Ministry of the Interior)
• 2009-2011 Project coordinator: Professional Bases, Strategies and Theoretical Frameworks of Education for Intercultural Relations and Active Citizenship (for the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports)
• 2016-2021 Project leader: Strengthening Educational Staff’s Social and Civic Competences – Only (with) others we are (for the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports)

Bilateral projects with neighbouring countries

• 2011-2014 National project coordinator: EDUKA – Educating for Diversity (Slovenia-Italy)

National projects

• 2000 Expert report: ‘Strategy for emigrants’, financed by the governmental Office for Slovenians Abroad
• 2001 – 2004 Project leader: The Role and the Significance of Women in the Preservation of Cultural Tradition among Emigrants
• 2009-2010 Project Leader: Equal Opportunities in Slovenian Diplomacy (for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia)
• 2018-2020 Project Leader : Social, economic and cultural history of the Slovenian emigration 1945-2015

Educational activity:

Norway

• 2012-2019 Module leader at Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Stavanger, Norway; Study programme “European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations” (Erasmus Mundus programme): Module 1 – Theorising Migration and Integration (2012- 2018); Module 2: Multiculturalizm, Citizenship and Education (2013 – 2018) and Module 3: Contoversies over Multiculturalism (2018-2019).

Slovenia:

• 1992-2000 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education, module: Sociology of education, assistant
• 1993-1999 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, module: Civilisations, assistant
• 1999- 2007 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, module: Civilisations, module leader
• 2001-2004 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education, module: Sociological aspects of the professional identity of the teaching profession, module leader
• 2008-2010 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, module: Culture, globalisation and multiculturalism (graduate level), module leader
• 2004- 2012 University of Nova Gorica, study programme: Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures, module: Slovenian emigrants between tradition and modernity, module leader
  2006- 2012 University of Nova Gorica, study programme Joint MA in Migration and Intercultural Relations, module: Slovenian emigrants between tradition and modernity, module leader
• 2012- 2019 Postgraduate School of ZRC SAZU, module: Slovenian expatriates between tradition and Modernity, module leader

Module leader, graduate study programmes at the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Social Sciences University of Ljubljana:

• 2005/2006 Department of Slovenian studies, Faculty of Arts: Emigration of Slovenians to Argentina – political economic perspective
• 2006-2008 Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts: Slovenian emigrants
• 2007- 2010 Department of History, Faculty of Arts: Politics of migration
• 2007- 2010 Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts: Slovenian emigrants between tradition and modernity
• 2010-2012 Faculty of Social Sciences: Multiculturalism and integration

Supervisions:

Supervisions/mentorships at various faculties of the University of Ljubljana, the University of Nova Gorica and the University of Stavanger:

• BA thesis: 30 (27 as mentor, 3 as co-mentor)
• MA thesis: 7 (6 as mentor, 1 as co-mentor)
• PhD dissertations: 5 (4 as mentor, 1 as co-mentor)

Ongoing:

• PhD dissertations 4 (Tanja Cukjati; Marina Teresa Mahdavi, Anja Polajnar, Asja Pehar)
• MA dissertations 1 (Stephen Ogwere)

Research supervisor at the Slovenian Migration Institute ZRC SAZU to three researchers.

Awards:

• Mentor to Maša Mikola, who was awarded Prešernova nagrada(University award) for her BA thesis: Ethnic choice: from Australian Slovenians to Slovenian Australians (Faculty of Social Sciences UL) *Mentor to Miralem Zec, who was awarded Prešernova nagrada (Faculty award) for his BA thesis: Teacher’s (lack of) power when dealing with deviant behaviour in a group: qualitative analysis of selected cases (Faculty of Education UL)
• Mentor to Mojca Vah, who was awarded Prešernova nagrada (Faculty award) for her BA thesis: The New Transnational Social Spaces: The impact of Transnationalisation of Space on Habitats of Meaning (Faculty of Social Sciences).
• Mentor to Mojca Vah Jevšnik, who received an award for the overall performance during the MA study programme JMMIR at the University of Nova Gorica.

Editor, editorial board:

• 2008 – 2012 member of the editorial board Thesis Kosova
• 2010 – editor-in-charge Dve domovini /Two homelands
• 2014- member of the editorial board book series Thought, society, culture. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang
• 2018 – member of the editorial board Družboslovne razprave

Membership in expert committees in Slovenia and abroad:

• 2003-2006 member of the expert core group of the national research field Narodno vprašanje
• 2004-2006 status of a migration expert at the Ministry of Education and Sports
• 2006-2011 member of the ARRS team of evaluators, call for papers ‘Knowledge for Safety and Peace’
• 2005-2012 consortium committee member, Joint Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations (JMMIR)
• 2010 – consortium committee member, European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations (Erasmus Mundus programme)
• 2013 – member of the committee for selection of research programme evaluators for social sciences
• 2013 – member of the team of experts, implementation of the strategy of cooperation between Slovenia and Slovenian emigrants
• 2015 – member of the ARRS Scientific Research Council for Social Sciences

Membership in international associations:

• Society for Slovene Studies
• Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism
• Association for Teacher Education in Europe
• Association of European Migration Institutions
• International Sociological Association

Membership in Slovenian associations:

• Slovenian Sociological Association
• Slovene Anthropological Society

Expert activity with international impact:

• 2008 Invited by the Ministry of Health as an expert in migration and multiculturalism to give a lecture on the intercultural dialogue at the ‘Horizontal working group on drugs,’ Council of the European Union, 12. 6. 2008.
• 2008 Invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to organise training at the ‘School of Diplomacy’ – Module 5 of the 8th European diplomatic programme, Brdo pri Kranju, 15. – 17. 5. 2008; the training was implemented by myself and the ZRC SAZU research team
• 2008 Providing a seminar on the intercultural dialogue in education to professors from the former Yugoslavian republic, during Slovenian EU presidency
• 2011 Invited by the president of the Republic of Slovenia, Danilo Turk, to attend the international conference Living together: combining diversity and freedom in 21st century Europe (Bled 2011)
• 2011 Introductory lecture at the Parliament of the Republic of Slovenia about integration of immigrants and education
• 2012 Introductory lecture at the Parliament of the Republic of Slovenia as part of the meeting of Slovenians Abroad.
• 2015 Economic prospects of the Western Balkans: invited lecture at the European Parliament conference in Ljubljana “What is the (new) European perspective of the Western Balkans?”, 27. XI.2015

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