As a research fellow she researches economic and social manifestations of the living standards of Slovenes during socialism. She discovers their material world by identifying the economic capacity of households, the volume and structure of consumption, and the equipping of households with durable consumer goods. She also examines the characteristics of infrastructural goods and the availability of goods and services in the field of entertainment, culture and leisure. She pays special attention to the issue of housing supply and housing policy. She is the author of several works and contributions in the field of socio-economic and cultural history and victimology.
Research interests:
Economic and social history
Living Standard and Living Conditions | Households | Consumption | Housing | Everyday Goods
Socialism
WW II | Casualties WW II
Slovenia | Yugoslavia
Education:
PhD in Contemporary History, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts (2016) | Doctoral Thesis: Living Standard of Slovenes during socialism with an emphasis on the 1960s and 1970s
MA in history, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (2003) | Master Thesis: Attitude towards Animals and a View of the Operation of the Carniolan Society for the Protection of Animals 1902-1915
Programs and projects of the Research Agency of the Republic of Slovenia:
Research Infrastructure of Institute of Contemporary History | Data base: Casualties among the population in the territory of the Republic of the Slovenia during the WW II and imediately after it
Rendla, Marta. »What’s the Standard coming to?« Standard of Living and Sociaism. Ljubljana: The Institute of Contemporary History, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/11686/file25759
Rendla, Marta ; Hönig, Nataša ; Lazarević, Žarko: 73.000 Banking days : history, experiences, memories. Ljubljana : NLB, 2020.
Rendla, Marta. Niko Kralj’s Time: rational, economical, industrial. Niko Kralj, Pioneer of Industrial Design: »It is strange that man always wants something different,«29−49. Ljubljana : Slovenska matica : Museum of Architecture and Design, 2021.
Rendla, Marta. Alternative Cultural Movements and the “FV Conglomerate” in Slovenia during the 1980s. Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino = Contributions to the contemporary history = Contributions á l’histoire contemporaine = Beiträge zur Zeitgeschichte Vol 58 No 2 (2018). https://ojs.inz.si/pnz/article/view/269
Rendla, Marta ; Pančur, Andrej ; Dežman, Jože. Places od death and places of graves in the Institute of Contemporary History’s World War database. The right to a grave: the Republic of Slovenia and war graves: 5th report of the Commission of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for Resolving the Issues of Concealed Cemeteries. Ljubljana : Družina, 2021.
