Dr Tanja Kovačič works at the Office of the VP for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion, with a lead responsibility in relation to decolonising the curriculum. Previously a post-doctoral researcher at the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, her work focused on a major evaluation of the educational programmes combatting educational inequality in Ireland. Her PhD explored generational growing-up experiences of youth in socialist and post-socialist Slovenia. Her research spans the sociology of youth and educational inequality, using qualitative methods like biographic and narrative inquiry, epistolary, photovoice and collaborative autoethnography. She has contributed to projects on alternative education in Ireland, the deinstitutionalisation of children in care and an EU-funded project on social robot assistance in dementia care. She has extensive teaching experience with diverse student groups and holds degrees from multiple European institutions.