Nik Obid graduated in Cultural History from the Faculty of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica in 2019 and in 2022 he completed his Master's degree in Intercultural Management at the School of Advanced Social Studies in Nova Gorica. In both of his final works, he dealt with the phenomenon of the Bohinj railway, which he placed in the varied historical as well as current economic, socio-geographical and touristic context of the Alpine-Adriatic region. His Master's thesis entitled "State of traffic and develomental opportunities on the Bohinj railway" was awarded the Gosar Prize for the best Master's thesis in the Intercultural Management study programme in 2023 and the Alpine Convention Young Academics Award (Infopoint prize) 2024. 

During his studies at both levels, he participated in various projects dealing with intellectuals in Goriška region (publication of the collection Goriška intellectuals through history), the position of women in Goriška region (publication of the collection Nova Gorica – mesto izobraženk), the independence process in Goriška region (Tourist route of Slovenian independence in Goriška), populism at the level of the European Union (the Jean Monnet Chair project: Populism and the Future of European Democracy) and sustainable development (Erasmus + Jean Monnet Module: Enhancing European Civic Practices and Sustainability (Sustain4EU)). In his spare time, he also studies historical topics related to the wider Primorska area and is an amateur heritage worker, where he is dedicated to preserving and presenting the technical railway heritage of the Bohinj railway in the Alpine-Adriatic region.

His research focuses on social, historical and economic changes in the wider cross-border area, which he links to the themes of emigration in a longer comparative perspective. In addition, his interests include cultural and technical heritage and its interpretation in the wider border area. Since October 2024, he has been working as a young researcher at the Slovenian Migration Institute at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and is pursuing his PhD in Sociology under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ksenija Šabec at the interdisciplinary study programme The Humanities and Social Sciences at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana.