Martin Dolezal, Principal Investigator (Austria)
Martin Dolezal, PhD, is a Senior Scientist at the Department of Political Science at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS), a Post-doc Researcher at the Institute of Public Law and Political Science at the University of Graz, and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna. He has been involved in international and national projects dealing with various aspects of political participation (institutional and non-institutional) and political conflict. Dolezal has previously led a project funded by the Austrian science fund FWF that explored political protests in Austria.
Andrej Kirbiš, Principal Investigator (Slovenia)
Andrej Kirbiš, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia. He has authored scientific works on democratic political participation, polarization, political culture, and democratic consolidation in post-communist Europe, focusing on cross-national comparative analyses. He is also doing research in the sociology of health, cultural participation, environmental attitudes and behaviour and social inequalities. He is a co-founder and a member of CePSS (Center for the Study of Post-Socialist Societies). The members of his research lab examine areas such as political participation, values and health outcomes in post-communist states. He has led several national projects co-funded by the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) that explored participation and health outcomes in Slovenia. He is currently serving as principal investigator in impact research projects financed by ARIS (Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency), the Slovenian Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Energy. He has previously received research grants from the Slovenian Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Higher Education.
Marta Kołczyńska, Principal Investigator (Poland)
Marta Kołczyńska, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland.
Her work focuses on political attitudes and participation, as well as on the quality of comparability of cross-national survey data. She has led projects funded by Poland’s National Science Centre and National Agency for Academic Exchange. She is associate editor of the International Journal of Public Opinion Research.
Website: https://martakolczynska.com/
Monika Lamot
Monika Lamot is an Assistant and a PhD student at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor. Her research interests include political sociology and the sociology of health. Her research focuses on the political dimension of vaccine acceptance among the Slovenian and European public, including the politicization of pandemics, institutional trust, and polarization in post-communist countries.
Katja Kerman
Katja Kerman, PhD, is a Researcher at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia. Her research focuses on occupational health psychology, wellbeing, and work-life balance, and her interests also include political predictors and the consequences of these phenomena. She has a methodological background in complex study design, which will benefit the part of the project devoted to panel survey data collection and analyses to examine mechanisms linking polarization and political participation.
Maruša Lubej
Maruša Lubej, M.A., is a researcher at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia. Her research interests primarily include political sociology, intersections of politics and media, environmental attitudes and behavior, and social science methodology.
Boris Vezjak
Boris Vezjak, PhD, is an Associate professor of philosophy at the Department of philosophy, Faculty of Arts in Maribor, Slovenia. His field of interest covers various topics, such as history of philosophy, theory of discourse, media analysis, political analysis, and theory of argumentation. He is the author of several books, commentaries, and translations. As an expert on the political situation in Slovenia and as a commentator, he has simultaneously researched radicalization and violent extremism in Slovenia, the cultural participation of young people in Slovenia and Europe, as well as rationality in politics and beyond.
Teodor Petrič
Teodor Petrič, PhD, holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of German Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor. His academic journey is marked by an in-depth exploration of natural language processing, particularly within the realms of first and second language acquisition. His research also delves into the intricacies of simplification and elaboration in linguistic constructions. A notable aspect of his work is the comparative study of German and Slovenian languages through the lenses of psycholinguistics and quantitative analysis. He is proficient in employing advanced statistical methods and text-mining techniques, predominantly using the R programming language, to augment his research.
Marija Javornik
Marija Javornik, PhD, is a Professor at the Department of Pedagogy, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia. Her research focuses on pedagogy, didactics, and participation. She has published over seventy scientific works in areas such as teachers’ professional development, didactic methods and intercultural competencies.
Piotr Kocyba
Piotr Kocyba, PhD, works at the Else Frenkel-Brunswik Institute (EFBI) at Leipzig University. His research focuses on non-institutional political participation in post-communist Europe, especially on protests. He has conducted a series of protest surveys in Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Austria, adapting the methodology to the different political and cultural contexts.
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