Svetlana Hristova-Vladi has been a Senior Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (BAS) since 2011. Hristova-Vladi is also interested in Public Relations and Comms through having professional experience as a PR of the externally-donoured programs at the Ministry of Health (Bulgaria) and in international development organizations. Svetlana graduated Journalism from Sofia University (in 1998) and MA in Sociology from Central European University (in 2000).
Her academic interests encompass local holidays and festivals; media studies; community broadcasts; gender-sensitive and gender-responsive journalism; Roma ethnicity and identity; educational inequalities; profiles of groups and communities at the risk of discrimination; vulnerability analysis.