Nina Žnidaršič

Nina Žnidaršič has been employed as a Researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana since February 2025. From October 2020 to January 2025, she worked as a Junior Researcher at the Social Communication Research Centre at the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Ljubljani), where she successfully defended her doctoral dissertation in 2026, entitled Autonomy of Journalism and the Journalist’s Action in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She completed her undergraduate studies in Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana in 2018, and her postgraduate studies in Sociology in 2020. During this period, she was also concurrently enrolled in undergraduate studies in Philosophy and Sociology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.

Nina Žnidaršič’s academic profile is highly theoretical, conceptual, epistemological, and methodologically interdisciplinary. Her research integrates insights from several fields, including sociology, philosophy, history, political science, and, more recently, criminology. She has presented her academic work at numerous national and international conferences, including symposia at the University of Cambridge, Central European University, and Ghent University, as well as a guest lecture at the Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz. In 2023, she spent several months as a visiting researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana and completed an Erasmus+ traineeship at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade.