Research Groups

Research groups are formulated in accordance with the themes below:

 

The main objective of the research themes is to foster the competitiveness of Kosovo society and national, organizational and individual level. As part of the competitiveness aim, the College has prioritized several themes:

 

I SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES SECTOR 1.1   Information and Communication Technology

1.2   Strategic Human Resource Management

1.3   System Development

1.4   Globalization and Opportunities

1.5   Business Enabling Environment

1.6   Automation and Manufacturing

1.7   Robotics

1.8   International Financial Reporting Systems

1.9   Foreign Investments (Mergers and Acquisitions)

1.10            Project Leadership and change management

1.11            Leadership and Innovation

1.12            The effect of Leadership Style on Performance Management of Workers

1.13            The economics of entrepreneurship:

1.14            Clusters and their evolution;

1.15            Government Policies for the development of Small Business concerns and Clusters;

1.16            The sources of Finance of Small and Medium-sized firms;

1.17            Regional and National Systems of Innovation and their Evolution (all in relation to developed countries only)

1.18            Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management

1.19            The qualities of ambidextrous leadership that facilitate organizational development

1.20            The Effect of Performance Assessment on Workers` Productivity

1.21            The role of Auditing on Organizational Effectiveness

1.22            Corporate Governance in Banking Industry of Kosovo

1.23            Good Governance in Public Health Care System

1.24            System Approach in Public Administration

1.25            The Impact of Total Quality Management on Productivity

1.26            The Impact of Information Technologies on Performance Management

1.27            The Impact of Employee Participation in Decision-making process

1.28            Bussiness Ethics

1.29            Debt Management in Financial Institutions

1.30            Managerial Accounting

1.31            NGO Sector

1.32            Creating Business Enabling Environment

1.33            Intercultural Competence and International Business

1.34            Positioning Kosovo Enterprises in the Global Market (Globalization and Opportunities)

1.35            Low Cost Automation based in Intelligence Solution (Interdisciplinary- Mechatronics)

1.36            Human Resources Development

1.37            Sustainable Design

 

II PUBLIC SECTOR INSTITUTIONS 2.1 Judicial independence

2.2 Ethics and corruption

2.3 Public Administration reforms and performance

2.4 Legal Framework Efficiency

2.5 Privacy rights and data protection

2.6 Approaches and dimensions of legal reasoning

2.7 Challenges of international and transnational law

2.8 Commercial law

2.9 Legal Challenges of EU Integration

2.10 Minority Rights and Gender Equality

2.11 Transparency of policy-making

2.12 Business costs and regulation

2.13 Business costs of crime and violence

2.14 Organized crime and reliability of police services

2.15 Property rights

2.16 Intellectual Property rights

2.17 Good governance

2.18 Spatial Planning and Cultural Heritage

2.19 Public Human Resource Management

2.20 Public Finance and Accounting Systems

 

 

III Health Sciences and Care  

3.1 Health Services and Patient Safety

3.2 Mental Disorder

3.3 Social Development of Health System

3.4 Diabetics and Cardiovascular Diseases

3.5 Personalized (tailored) Medicine

3.6 Pharmacogenomics (Psychiatric, Cardiologic and Oncology Drugs)

3.7 The Importance of Aromatic and Medical Plans in Pharmacy

3.8 Organizational Behavior (Industrial and Organizational Psychology)

3.9 Clinical Psychology

 

IV Economics and Strategy  

1. Globalization and Inequality

2. Green Economics

3. Budget, Taxes and Public Investment

4. Income Distribution

5. Unemployment

6. Minimum Wage

7. Retirement Funds

8. Affordable Care Act

9. Job Creation

10. Social Inclusion of Vulnerable groups through increasing their employability

11. Public Finance

12. Money and Banking

13. Labor Economics

14. Econometrics

15. Consumer Behavior

16. Economic Measurement Forecasting

17. Agricultural Economics

18. Economics of aging (interdisciplinary- medicine school)

19. Economics of Energy Markets (interdisciplinary- energy engineering)

 

V ARCHITECTURE AND CIVIL ENGINEERING

 

1. Architecture History

2. Urban Sustainability

3. Architecture Design

4. Sustainable Architecture

5. Architectural Heritage

6. Architecture Values and Heritage

7. Computer Aided Design

8. Modeling and Simulation

9. Construction Automation and Robotics

10. Construction Management

11. Project Management

VI MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION 1. Media Ethics

2.  Social Media

3.  Professional Journalistic Standards and Code of Ethics

4.  Web-based Journalism

5.  Media, Information and Communication Literacy

6.  The Art of Persuasion: Social Influence

VII ENERGY ENGINEERING 1.  System Design and Public & Private Administration

Regulation of Energy Institutions: This research Topic explores the regulatory framework both national and EU and their implications for energy production

2.  Good Governance

Efficiency and Renewable Energy within the Public Sector: This topic explores the approaches and trends in promoting energy efficiency in the public sector using modern solar, wind and biomass energy production

Energy Efficiency in the Private Sector: This topic explores the approaches and trends in promoting energy efficiency in the private sector using modern solar, wind and biomass energy production

VIII MECHATRONICS 1.  Robotics and Biometrics

2. Systems engineering

3. Mechatronics systems in manufacturing

4. Automotive engineering

5. Materials Processing and Manufacturing

6. Design of machines, devices and systems possessing a degree of computer-based intelligence

7. Artificial intelligence, neural networks and fuzzy logic in mechatronics and robotics

8. Applications of machine vision, image processing, pattern recognition and synthesis

9. Robotics

10. Biomedical Engineering

IX COMPUTER SCIENCE 1. System Development and Public Administration

2. Knowledge Management

3. Health Care Systems and IT

4. Library Information Systems

5. Big data, data mining, forecasting modeling and stimulation

6. Cyber Security

7. Artificial Intelligence and Automation

 


Research Groups

 

Security Studies

  • Human Security
  • Peace and Democracy
  • Public Opinion and the Media
  • National and International Security
  • Human and Ethnic Rights in Balkans
  • Ethnic Conflict in the XXI century
  • Theoretical Issues of Democracy
  • Political Theory and Philosophy
  • Religion and Politics
  • Ethics in Political Science
  • Theory and Strategy of Policymaking

 

Psychology

  • Current issues and challenges in Psychology,
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology,
  • Counselling Psychology
  • Personality Psychology,
  • Social Psychology,
  • Psychobiology,
  • Industrial Psychology,
  • Organizational Psychology,
  • Psychometrics,
  • Developmental Psychology,
  • Experimental Psychology,
  • Assessment and Evaluation
  • Community Psychology
  • Consumer Behavior and Attitudes
  • Cultural Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Educational Psychology
  • Environment/Sustainability
  • Ethical Issues in Psychology
  • Exercise, Sport and Recreation
  • Forensic Psychology
  • Gender
  • Health Psychology
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuropsychology
  • Peace, Conflict and Violence
  • Positive Psychology
  • Professional Training and Licensure
  • Psychopharmacology
  • Race and Racism
  • Addictions and Rehabilitation
  • Sexuality
  • Social and Political Issues
  • Trauma and Trauma therapy

 

Fashion

  • Decoding Fashion
  • Narratives Told Through Fashion Design
  • Challenges Facing Fashion Industry
  • Fashion as Performance
  • Transcending in Fashion
  • Settled/Unsettled Fashion

 

Art and Digital Media

  • New and digital mediums in Art
  • Crypto Art
  • NFT art and the market
  • Art in the time of Pandemic
  • Public art and Sculptures
  • Exhibitions vs online exhibitions
  • Resarch and concept
  • Interrelations between art, science and research

 

Language and Culture

  • Acculturation
  • Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia and ICT in ELT
  • Assessment in Language Learning
  • Biological and cultural co-evolution
  • Classical Literature
  • Cognitive / Cultural schematization and semantics
  • Cognitive Processes and Critical Thinking in Language Learning and Acquisition
  • Colonial and postcolonial literature
  • Communication & Media
  • Communication & Society
  • Computer Assisted Language Learning

 

Sport

  • Sport History
  • Physical Education and Pedagogics
  • Physical Activity Promotion
  • Social media
  • Philosophy and Ethics
  • Training and testing
  • Coaching
  • Sport and Technology
  • Sport and Sociology (Social Inclusion, Gender etc.)
  • Sports Management and Law
  • Biomechanics

 

Music

  • Musical Anthropology
  • Music History
  • Musicology
  • Musical Instruments
  • Music Performance
  • Musical Didactics
  • Musical Education
  • Contemporary Composition
  • Audio Production
  • Musical Production
  • Sound Design
  • Music and Technology
  • Music and AI