Maja Založnik studied EU regulation of genetically modified organisms as part of her undergraduate degree at the University of Ljubljana; geodemographic classification of census output areas for her MA thesis at Liverpool University, which is where she also completed her PhD investigating the robustness of iterative proportional fitting using UK census microdata.
She worked on a joint project between the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and the Department of Zoology investigating how changes in the age and educational structure of farming populations interact with changing pest populations to affect food security.
This interdisciplinary project led by the Oxford Institute of Ageing will look at developing an enriched understanding of human demographic change, the challenges of small holding farms and pest management under environmental change. We aim to develop quantitative approaches that allow us to consider changes in environmental processes, agricultural economics and human demography in more joined-up ways.