News

New article on meritocracy

Frane Adam, PhD and Maruša Gorišek wrote a new article entitled Meritocracy - between myth, norm and reality

Correspondence discussion of IRSA associates

Associates of the IRSA institute held a correspondence discussions on alternatives and the current political and epidemiological crisis. The discussion is available here (in Slovenian).

Researching social context of ccovid-19 epidemic

new publication of dr. Frane Adam (in Slovenian): link

New publication of the institute associates

Darka Podmenik, PhD, external associate at the IRSA institute and Maruša Gorišek, young researcher, published an article in the journal Research in Social Change titled Is youth unemployment in EU countries structural?

Dr. Frane Adam published a new book

Dr. Frane Adam published a new book at the Institute for developmental and strategic analysis, titled

Between meritocracy and populism

On the cacophony of data in the postfactual society

(Second, edited edition)

Current

1. Research project: Meritocracy and the knowledge society: between simulation and reality

Time frame: 2019-2021

Funded by: Slovenian Research Agency

Program group leader: Frane Adam PhD ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Program members (in 2020): Igor Bahovec, PhD, Hans Westlund, PhD, Tea Golob, PhD, Petra Kleindienst, PhD, Mateja Rek, PhD, Urban Vehovar, PhD, Maruša Gorišek

2. Public order: Qualitative research on pension gap between men and women

Funded by: Ministry of work, family, social affairs and equal opportunities in the framework of the European project My Work.My Pension

Cooperating: Frane Adam, PhD, Igor Bahovec, PhD, Darka Podmenik, PhD, Emanuela Kristan, Maruša Gorišek, Dane Podmenik

3. Research programme: Socio-cultural and organisational aspects of knowledge and technology transfer

Time frame: 2015 - 2020

Funded by: Slovenian Research Agency

Program group leader: Frane Adam PhD ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Program members (in 2020): Igor Bahovec PhD, Hans Westlund PhD, Angela Ivančič PhD, Matej Makarovič, PhD, Victor Cepoi, PhD, Maruša Gorišek and Dane Podmenik.