Polona Pecnik

User profile

Dr.

Polona

Pečnik

Slovenia

Area of expertise, interest, main activities...: 

gender equality in academia, Gender equality, awareness raising, Gender Budgeting, gender stereotypes

About you (please use English): 

European 7th Framework Programme Project Genis LAB: - responsible for the implementation of the project at the National Institute of Chemistry Slovenia - successfully managed, planned, organized, directed and coordinatied professional and administrative work of the project (in dimensions of a project research: Human Resources, Gender Budgeting, Organizational Culture and Stereotypes) - performed research work and preparation of the project contents on selected issues in all above mentioned dimensions - performed Gender-targeted and Comparative organizational analyses - planned and implemented Self-Tailored Action Plan - performed Project Self-Assessment and Evaluation - drafted, composed, conducted, coordinated and implemented a Dissemination and Awareness Campaign (development and design of project dissemination items and their dissemination, performing awareness raising and dissemination activities).

Scientific discipline: 

Social sciences, Humanities

Stakeholder group: 

Gender equality stakeholders

Contact details

Spoken languages: 

Croatian

English

French

German

Slovenian

City: 

Ljubljana

Street: 

Dobrdobska ulica 3

ZIP: 

1000

Phone: 

+38641351353

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Would you like to form part of the GenPORT Gender Expert database?: 

Yes

Area of Gender Expertise: 

Gender in education

Gender in social sciences

Gender research

Innovation and diversity (e.g. gender)

Kinship, cultural dimensions of classification and cognition, identity, gender

Social topics (Women's and gender studies)

Women and gender studies

Country coverage: 

Slovenia

Skills and track record: 

Improvement of organizational climate workplace, acting on organizational culture: changing negative gender stereotypes, improvement of internal communication skills through the use of gender-sensitive language in documents whenever possible, establishment of a social dialogue, creating positive role-models, establishment of monitoring systems in the field of Human Resources and Budgeting. - Campaign Manager of the promotional graphic campaign of the National Institute of Chemistry Slovenia. Main products of this awareness raising campaign, the promotional video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvwvMyZpqFE) and there presented wristband, have been key parts of the communication campaign with the communication content and the slogan »Ženske za znanost - Women for science« with the aim of awareness raising and contribution to the awareness of the need for more women in science.