Veronika Bajt, dr.

Dr Veronika Bajt graduated with a degree in sociology from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana (1998), obtained her master’s degree at Central European University (1999) and her PhD at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom (2003). As a postdoctoral researcher, she worked at Masaryk University in Brno (2005–2006), where she taught four independent courses; she also collaborated on research and teaching with the University of Bristol, Nottingham Trent University and the International University Institute for European Studies. Her research focuses on migration, integration policies, nationalism and the construction of national identities, discrimination, hate speech and disinformation. She has participated in more than 50 projects; amongst other, she independently led one basic research project and two targeted research projects, (co-)funded by the Public Agency for Scientific Research and Innovation of the Republic of Slovenia (ARIS).

She publishes her research findings in internationally recognised academic journals, such as *Critical Sociology*, *Discourse & Communication*, *International Migration*, and *Media, Culture & Society*. She is the author of two monographs, *Ethnic Discrimination: Strategies for Research and Measurement* (2023) and *Nationalism from Nation to Statehood: The Emergence of Slovenia* (2010). She has edited the monograph Hate Speech in Slovenia (2025) and special issues on hate speech in the journals *Časopis za kritiko znanosti* (2017) and *Annales*, Series Historia et Sociologia (2025), and co-edited the publication *Razor-Wired* (2016), the first academic analysis of the Balkan migration route through Slovenia in 2015.

She is an active member of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) and a member of the Slovenian Sociological Association Executive Committee.

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