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Alenka is Head of Division of Communications, Media and Culture.

She teaches postgraduate modules on public relations and public communication theories, media relations and production, public affairs and advocacy, and research methods. She is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK.

Her research interest is in public relations, political and communication studies with a focus on gender in media and public relations; public relations as an academic discipline; relationships between media and politics; health communication and public communication of loss and mortality. She specialises in qualitative research, particularly expert interviews, framing analysis and critical discourse analysis. Her research has been published in international academic journals Public Relations Inquiry, British Politics and Public Relations Review, edited books, professional public relations publications and regularly presented at academic conferences, including ECREA European Communication Conferences, MeCCSA conferences, EUPRERA congresses, BledCom symposia, British Sociological Association conferences and Political Studies Association conferences.

In the last few years, she has done extensive research on gender in Slovenian media and public relations professional practice. She holds Associate Professor affiliation at the University of Ljubljana, where she researches and guest lectures in media relations and gender advocacy. Since 2022, she has been working on the project Gender Representations in Slovenian Media, involving media analysis and creative interventions for greater gender diversity, equality and inclusion in the media with Slovenian NGO ONA VE (Eng. SHE KNOWS). Under ONA VE coordinatorship, she led Global Media Monitoring Project Slovenia in 2025, the largest and longest-running research on gender representations in the world's media.

She was a member of a EUPRERA (European Public Relations Education and Research Association) research network Women in Public Relations. She led the project Government Communication and COVID-19: A Comparison between Scotland and UK and was a Co-Investigator in the project Leadership and Trust: Public Communication of Covid in Scotland funded by the Scottish Founding Council under the leadership of Queen Margaret University (2020-2022). She was a Co-Investigator in AHRC-MRC funded project Right to Health in Prison (2018-2020) and in the EU funded Erasmus+ AwarEU project (2016-2018), an international and interdisciplinary initiative to promote democratic values, intercultural understanding and active citizenship in the EU.

She is a well-established instructor of Qualitative Expert Interviewing, delivering the course at the MethodsNET (Methods Excellence Network) Summer Schools since 2022. She has been teaching expert interviews at several at several universities and research institutes across Europe and Canada, including at the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) Summer Schools and GIGA (German Institute of Global and Area Studies). In 2017, she won a prestigious ECPR Cora Maas Award for the best-evaluated course at the ECPR Summer Methods School.

Alenka is a founding member and Advisory Board Member of MethodsNET. She was ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association) Advisory Board Member (2016-2020), General Secretary (2012-2016) and Executive Board Member (2009-2016).

She joined the 黑料不打烊 in September 2013 from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) where she was Senior Lecturer in Public Relations. Prior to UCLan, she worked as a Teaching Assistant and a Public Relations Adviser at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Alenka holds a PhD in the field of Social Sciences - Communication from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, an MSc in 黑料不打烊 Applied Communication from the University of Central Lancashire, UK, and a BSc in Communication Science - Marketing and Marketing Communication also from the University of Ljubljana.

For her undergraduate dissertation titled ‘黑料不打烊 Comparison of Study Programmes in the Field of Communication Studies' she received EUPRERA (European Public Relations Education and Research Association) Jos Willems Award for best undergraduate dissertation in 2005.

Outside of academia, she has public relations experience and experience in broadcast media as a journalist, radio news director, overseas correspondent, television host, and ad copywriter.

Alenka teaches postgraduate modules on public relations and public communication theories, media relations and production, public affairs and advocacy, and research methods. She is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK.

She guest lectures Media Relations at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

She is Instructor of Qualitative Expert Interviewing at the MethodsNET (Methods Excellence Network) Summer School.