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tjasa.cankar@zrc-sazu.si
Trg francoske revolucije 7, 1000 Ljubljana
Tjaša Cankar is a doctoral candidate and project associate at the Institute for Cultural and Memory Studies. She researches the complexity of institutional change, the process of policy institutionalization, policy mobility in different geopolitical contexts and the 'Europeanisation' of (South) Eastern Europe. She has actively participated in several European Commission projects, from H2020 to Erasmus+ initiatives, where she has contributed to institutional capacity building and strategic planning of gender equality policies. She also participated in a project in cooperation with the Slovenian and Icelandic Ministries of Foreign Affairs, which dealt with equal opportunities issues in diplomacy in Slovenia and Iceland. She is also a researcher at the IEDC - Bled School of Management, where she works on gender equality and equal opportunities in business and management education.
Cankar, T. Mentorstvo in mentorska izkušnja. (2022). V: M. Antić Gaber (ur.), Samoumevnosti in nelagodja: Sistemsko urejanje enakosti spolov v akademskem polju (str. 225-230). Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani. https://doi.org/10.4312/9789612970499.
Antić Gaber, M., Kos, Ž., Cankar, T., Podreka, J. Days of Gender Equality as a Tool for Developing Institutional and Community Awareness and Building Co-creative Atmosphere for the Introduction of gender Topics into Curricula. (2022). V: M. Antić Gaber (ur.), Samoumevnosti in nelagodja: Sistemsko urejanje enakosti spolov v akademskem polju (str. 225-230). Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani. https://doi.org/10.4312/9789612970499.
Antić Gaber, M., Cankar, T., Dnevi enakosti spolov. (2022). In M. Antić Gaber (ur.), Samoumevnosti in nelagodja: Sistemsko urejanje enakosti spolov v akademskem polju (str. 225-230). Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani. https://doi.org/10.4312/9789612970499.
Cankar, T., Suhovršnik, M. Študijski proces skozi prizmo spola (2022). In M. Antić Gaber (ur.), Samoumevnosti in nelagodja: Sistemsko urejanje enakosti spolov v akademskem polju (str. 225-230). Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani. https://doi.org/10.4312/9789612970499.
Purg, D., Minkov, M., Cankar, T. (ur.). (2020) International Academy of Management. Global Forum. (2020). Impending global leadership challenges: Lessons learned from the covid-19 crisis : Proceedings of the international academy of management global forum 2020 : Hosted by IEDC-bled school of management, October 9, 2020. https://www.iedc.si/docs/default-source/Publications/iedc-impending-global-leadership.pdf?sfvrsn=2.
Cankar, T., Rus, T., Hjálmarsdóttir, E. H., Empowered diplomacy: bridging the gender gap. Final report of a joint Iceland-Slovenia study (2020). V: T. Rus & K. A. Árnadóttir (ur.). Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Slovenia, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Iceland. https://www.norwaygrants.si/wp-content/uploads/Final-report-of-a-joint-Iceland-Slovenia-study_Empowered-diplomacy.pdf.
Cankar, T. Enakost spolov v slovenski diplomaciji (2023). V: Slovensko sociološko srečanje. (2023). Dolgoživa družba: posledice in izzivi: zbornik prispevkov: Slovensko sociološko srečanje, Koper, 19. - 21. oktober 2023 (str. 211-223). Slovensko sociološko društvo. https://www.sociolosko-drustvo.si/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SSD-Spletni-zbornik-prispevkov.pdf.
EMPLOYMENT
2023, Institute for Cultural and Memory Studies.
2020, IEDC-Bled School of Management.
2019-2020, Ekvilib Institute.
2019-2023, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.
EDUCATION
Master's degree, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.
Title: Gender equality in Slovenian diplomacy. Case study of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia.
Erasmus study exchange, Utrecht University 2017-2018.
Diploma, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.
Title: Manifestations of anti-feminisms in post-socialism.
Diploma, Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.
Title: Comparison of the position of the Slovenian language in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Socialist Yugoslavia.
SELECTED PROJECTS
Bilateral project 'Equal opportunities in national diplomacy', Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, EEA Grants. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Slovenia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iceland. (2019-2020). Project associate at the Ekvilib Institute and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia. https://www.norwaygrants.si/en/novica/fund-for-bilateral-relations-research-on-equal-opportunities-in-national-diplomacies/.
Horizon 2020 project 'GEARING ROLES - Gender Equality Actions in Research Institutions to transform Gender ROLES'. Project assistant at the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (2019-2023). https://gearingroles.eu/.
Horizon 2020 project 'EQUAL4EUROPE - Gender Equality Plans for Social Sciences, Business & Management schools'. Research associate and head of the work package at IEDC-Business School Bled (2020-2024). https://equal4europe.eu/.
Research 'Hidden Champions in Rising Economies, third cycle', Alliance of Management Development Associations in Rising Economies. Research associate and project coordinator at CEEMAN, the International Association for Management Development in Dynamic Companies (2022-2023). https://www.ceeman.org/research/hidden-champions-research.
Erasmus+ project 'EQUATION. EQUalIty through AccreditaTION'. Research assistant at IEDC-Business School Bled (2022-2024).
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES
Equal 4 Europe: Paving the Way towards Gender Equality in European Business Schools. Academy of Management, Boston, August 2023. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.15761symposium
Gender equality in Slovenian diplomacy. Slovenian Sociological Meeting, Koper, October 2023. https://www.sociolosko-drustvo.si/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SSD-Spletni-zbornik-prispevkov.pdf
Panel 'How to attract and retain female talent in academia?'. Final conference of the EQUAL4EUROPE project, Barcelona, November 2023. https://equal4europe.eu/equal4europe-final-conference-2/
LANGUAGES AND ADDITIONAL SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
Languages: English (active), Russian, Croatian, Serbian (intermediate), French (passive)
Additional skills: project management and event organization
SCHOLARSHIPS
Zois scholarship (from academic year 2007/2008 to 2014/2015).
PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION
Peer review and testing of learning material for corpus analysis of parliamentary discourse. 'Voices of the Parliament: A Corpus Approach to Parliamentary Discourse Research'. Project assistant at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (2020). https://www.clarin.eu/content/voices-parliament-corpus-approach-parliamentary-discourse-research.
Project management - case writing competition, CEEMAN 2021 – 2022
Project management - award scheme, CEEMAN 2021-2022
Organization of the CEEMAN conference in Trieste 2021 and editing of the proceedings (https://ss-usa.s3.amazonaws.com/c/308473702/media/186661bb45c34008438914184794237/CEEMAN_29th_Proc_Web_final.pdf)
Organization of the CEEMAN conference in Bled 2022