SIF 2nd Cohort Fellows - Nena Mocnik, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Curriculum Vitae
Nena Mocnik is Maria Skłodowska Curie EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND Postdoctoral Fellow and a first Digital Humanism Fellow (awarded by Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action and IWM Vienna). As a researcher, educator, and community worker, she is interested in the topics of collective traumas, identity (gender) violence, and art-based sociotherapy.
- Education
30.9. 2011, MA, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Cultural and Religious Studies
30.09. 2009, BA, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Culturology
- Experience
March 2017-August 2019, University of Turku (Finland), postdoctoral researcher
October 2011-May 2016, University of Ljubljana, research assistant
- Publications/Research achievements
Research Project
Enhancing the potential to provide reproductive health support to traumatized refugee mothers through community developed mobile app
Women and children make up more than half of the refugees crossing to Europe, and almost one in 10 of women are pregnant. Exposed to different types of violence in their home country, on the move and in the country of resettlement most of the refugee mothers suffer from severe post-traumatic stress disorder. The project proposed to create content for the model of a community driven app MoMS (‘Moving Moms Support’) to critically respond to the current problematic nature of humanitarian intervention, based in reductionistic Western, medicalized understanding of reproductive health and related traumas.
Addressing on of the major European challenges since 2015, and designed as participatory action research, the project follows Agenda 2030 and exploits the potential benefits of the increasing post-Covid trend in digitalization. Project will in a long run have an important impact on reproductive health and well-being, digital literacy, autonomy, and equality of refugee mothers.