Mateja Slovenc is active in the field of agricultural anthropology. She is interested in strategies of family farms that she explores through farm succession, collective culture, and distress among farmers. She dedicates special attention to young farmers and their families.
Research projects:
2019– Literacy about mood disorders and personality disorders
2018–2019 With raised mental health literacy to better managing of mood disorders (acr. OMRA)
2018–2020 Promoting the development of sustainable practices in agriculture by introducing aquaponics (acr. BLUEGRASS) (Interreg V-A Italy-Slovenia programme 2014-2020)
2018 Western Balkans Urban Agriculture Initiative (acr. BUGI) (program Erasmus+)
2014 Commercial exhibitions: Commercial exhibitions (acr. KORA) (Creative path to practical knowledge programme)
SLOVENC, Mateja. Can a "good farmer" and a "bad farmer" cooperate?: An examination of conventional and organic farmersʹ perceptions of production and environmental protection. In: LUKŠIČ, Andrej (eds.), TKALEC, Tomislav (eds.). Intertwining of diverse minds in(to) political ecology. Scientific texts of doctoral students participating in the Summer School of Political Ecology. Ljubljana: Inštitut Časopis za kritiko znanosti, 2019, pp. 111-129. http://focus.si/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/MP%C5%A0-PE_Zbornik-Modra_2019.pdf
BLAZINŠEK, Tajda, KOŠIR, Rok, NEMEC, Urška, SLOVENC, Mateja. 2017a. Huda dediščine Hude Jame. In: KOLAR OSVALD, Darinka (eds.) and PETRUŠA ŠTRUKELJ, Elizabeta (eds.). Etika v muzejih, ravnanje z ostanki živih organizmov: Zbornik prispevkov. Radovljica, Ljubljana, Slovensko muzejsko društvo: Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve Republike Slovenije, Policija, Muzej slovenske policije, pp. 67–71. http://www.smd-drustvo.si/Arhiv%20dokumentov/1%20Muzeoforum/etika-v-muzejih.pdf
BLAZINŠEK, Tajda, KOŠIR, Rok, NEMEC, Urška, SLOVENC, Mateja. 2017b. Uncovering the horrific heritage of the Huda jama mine: Student project. In: HUDALES, Jože (eds.) and ROŽENBERGAR, Tanja (eds.). Collecting and Collections in Times of War or Political and Social Change: COMCOL Annual Conference, Celje 2014. Ljubljana: Filozofska fakulteta, Oddelek za etnologijo in kulturno antropologijo, pp. 134–137.
PITA COSTA, Dijana, PODVINŠEK, Lilijana, SLOVENC, Mateja, ŠKRINJAR, Maša. 2017. Kaj nam raziskava o občinstvu pove o značilnostih in navadah obiskovalcev razstave Možgani – zgodba od znotraj? Argo 60 (1): 48–55.
SLOVENC, Mateja. 2017. "Kdor je šel s časom, lahko živi": Čezmejni kmetijski nakupi v času Jugoslavije. Zgodovina za vse 24 (1): 72–84.
PITA COSTA, Dijana, SLOVENC, Mateja. 2016. Kako razumeti in inovirati komercialne razstave. Argo 59 (1): 36–45.
Education:
2017 Master of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology; Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
MA thesis: "The Strategies of Family Farms in Slovenia: Sustainable Development, Generations and Gender"
2016 – Bachelor of Science in Agronomy (UN); Department of Agronomy, Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana
BA thesis: "Double of peach (Prunus persica L.), sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) and plum (Prunus domestica L.)"
2012 – Bachelor of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology (UN); Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
BA thesis: "Memories behind the barbed wire"
Employment:
2018– young researcher; Sociomedical Institute, The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
2018 researcher; Centre for Agrometeorology, Agricultural Land Management, and Economics and Rural Development, Department of Agronomy, Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana
2017 promotion and development of Tutelage at University of Ljubljana; University of Ljubljana Career Centres