Liana Giorgi Vice-Director T: +43 1 524 13 93-150 F: +43 1 524 13 93-200 E: l.giorgi@iccr-international.org ICCR Schottenfeldgasse 69/1 1070 Vienna, Austria

Curriculum Vitae

Educational Qualifications

B.Sc. in Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA
Recipient of the Fulbright Cyprus American Scholarship Programme (CASP)
Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
Recipient of the Commonwealth Scholarship

Professional Experience

01/1995 – Current

Vice-Director The Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences (ICCR)

Fields of activity:

• Research in social science (sociology, political science, socio-economics, ethics of research)
• Human resources management (recruitment, training, performance assessment)
• Audit (organizational audit and financial audit).

Description of duties and main achievements:

My duties combined own research (see publications) and research management with a particular focus on European comparative and collaborative projects. During my time as vice-director of ICCR, the institute accrued several European projects and gained a reputation as a flagship private institute in the European research area in the field of social sciences and European public policy analysis. As most of the projects I managed and worked on were international, this brought me in constant contact with scholars and professionals around the world. In parallel, I was editor of the institute’s journal ‘Innovation; The European Journal of Social Science Research’, which is published by Taylor and Francis of the Informa Group. At the same time I was in charge of the institute’s financial and organizational management which included fund-raising through proposal writing, recruitment, training and supervision of personnel as well as the preparation of the institute’s financial statements and balance sheets.

09/1991-12/1994

Senior Researcher, ICCR

Fields of activity:

Academic research in sociology
Description of duties and main achievements:
During my time as senior researcher at the ICCR I launched the ‘European Community Household Panel’ (ECHP) for Austria on behalf of Eurostat. The survey, for which I was the scientific coordinator, targeted 3,000 households and 7,000 individuals around Austria. In parallel, I got engaged in the editing of the institute’s journal ‘Innovation; The European Journal of Social Science Research’. It was then that the journal also was successful in getting a UK-based publisher.

09/1990-04/1991

Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Amsterdam

Fields of activity:

Academic research in gender studies and assistant to institute’s director

09/1988-06/1990

Academic tutor, Dept. Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge

Fields of activity:

I worked as part-time academic tutor for undergraduate students of sociology and social psychology. My duties comprised discussing with them the curriculum material, correcting their essays and preparing them for the exams.

09/1986-06/1987

Laboratory assistant, Faculty of Cognitive Sciences, MIT

Fields of activity:

I was an assistant to Prof. Steven Pinker and his Ph.D. students and in charge of running an experiment on visual recognition and how this interfaces with the propositional part of the brain.

Professional training

05/2010 (3 weeks)
Summer Session of the Masters of Fine Arts (Creative Writing) of the State University of Iowa

07/2009 (1 week)
Summer Academy of European Food and Feed Law (EFFL)

07/1990 (3 weeks)
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection

07/1989 (3 weeks)
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection

Language skills

Greek (mother language)
English (excellent)
German (fluent)
French (fair)

Skills and competencies

Social skills and competences

Project management, teaching and supervision.

During the past fifteen years I have coordinated more than ten European projects on my own and another ten in collaboration. This included the scientific coordination of the ‘European Community Household Panel’ (ECHP) for Eurostat in the years 1995-2002; four projects on transport policy, foresight and evaluation; a project on European food policy; a project on European democracy and the public sphere; several projects on multiculturalism; a project on converging technologies; and a project on European arts festivals. Succesful project coordination requires social and technical skills and a comprehensive generalist knowledge across various disciplines. In this function I have supervised more than thirty young scholars and supported their research.

Organizational skils and competences

Research management—I have managed a private not-for-profit research organization for fifteen years. This has included financial and personnel management as well as auditing and controlling. The institute I managed was successfully audited by the European Commission, the European Court of Auditors and by Eurostat.

Technical skills and competences:

Proposal writing for the purpose of fund-raising (I have written a total of 30 proposals on my own and another 30 in collaboration; my success rate has been 60 percent).
Writing of project reports and policy briefings.
Advanced statistical analysis
Secondary analysis of available data
Moderation of focus groups and group discussions
Accounting and financial controlling

IT skills and competences:

SPSS, RZL, Microsoft Windows Programmes

Artistic skills and competences:

Creative writing (fiction and non-fiction)
Music (piano)

Other skills and competences:

Editor of the social science journal ‘Innovation; the European Journal of Social Science Research’ in the years 1994 to 2009.
Regular evaluator for the European Commission (for different programmes, such as social sciences, transport, ERANET)
Referre for other academic journals
Educational counsellor (on voluntary basis) for MIT in years 2005-2008

Scientific Coordination of Projects (selection)

Arts Festivals and the European Public Culture, 7th Framework Programme, 2008-2010
(in the framework of GTZ-EUROMED project), Regional Transport Action Plan for the Mediterranean 2007-2013, Euromed Project, 2007-2009
(with Nico Stehr), Knowledge Politics and New Converging Technologies: A Social Science Perspective, 6th Framework Programme, 2006-2008
(with Tal Sofer), E-Government for Low Socio-Economic Status Groups, 6th Framework Programme, 2005-2008
Governance, Territoriality and Europeanization: Whither Welfare Regimes?, BM:BWK Node Programme, 2003-2005
(with Ronald Pohoryles), The European Public Space Observatory – Assembling Information for Monitoring Democracy in Europe, 5th Framework Programme, 2001-2003
Foresight for Transport – A Foresight Exercise to Help Forward Thinking in Transport and Sectoral Integration, 5th Framework Programme, 2002-2003
(with Michael Schmidt), Thematic Network on Alpine Transport, 5th FrameworkProgramme, 2001-2003
Thematic Network on Policy and Project Evaluation Methodologies, 5th Framework Programme, 2000-2001
The Housing Dimension of Welfare Reform, 5th Framework Programme, 2000-2002
(with Steven Ney), Pension Reform in Europe, 5th Framework Programme, 2000-2002
(with Ronald Pohoryles), The European Community Household Panel Survey – Waves 1 to 8, Austria, Eurostat Programme, 1995-2002

Publications (chronologically)

Books

(with Gerard Delanty and Monica Sassatelli), Co-Editor and Co-Author of Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere (Routledge, 2010)
(with Jacquelyne Luce), Editor of the Special Issue of ‘Innovation; the European Journal of Social Science Research’, Knowledge Politics and Converging Technologies, Vol. 22, No. 1 (March 2009)
(with Dimitris Micharikopoulos and Photini Marini), Employment Strategy to Fight Youth Unemployment in Cyprus (in Greek), Cyprus, Ministry of Labour Affairs, Series Cyprus and Contemporary Labour Relations, 2008
(with Jacquelyne Luce), Editor of the Special Issue of ‘Innovation; The European Journal of Social Science Research’ Converging Science and Technology: Research Trajectories and Institutional Settings, Vol. 20, No. 4 (December 2007).
(with Niki Rodousakis), Editor of the Special Issue of ‘Innovation; The European Journal of Social Science Research’ Community Conflicts in the Post-Soviet Era, Vol. 19, Nos 3&4 (December 2006)
(with Wayne Parsons and Ingmar Homeyer et al.), Democracy in the European Union; Towards the Emergence of a Public Sphere, Routledge, 2006
(with Lisa Klautzer, Michael Schmidt and Adnan Rahman), Towards a European Transport Policy Information System, Prague, Nakladatelství a vydavatelství litomyšlského semináře, 2005
(with Vijay Verma et al. ), Income, Poverty and Social Exclusion in the European Union, Second European Social Report, EUROSTAT, 2003
(with Alan Pearman, eds.) Policy and Project Evaluation, 2001, Aldershot, Ashgate
(with Ronald J. Pohoryles, eds.), Transport Policy and Research: What Future?, 2000, Aldershot, Ashgate
(with Ronald J. Pohoryles, Philip Schlesinger, John Rex and Henrik Kreutz, eds.) European Transformations: Five Decisive Years at the Turn of the Century, Aldershot, Avebury, 1994.
The Post-Socialist Media: What Power the West?, Aldershot, Avebury, 1995.

Articles

‘Between Tradition, Vision and Imagination: The Public Sphere of Literature Festivals’, in Giorgi, L. Et al. (eds.), Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere, Routledge, 2010, forthcoming
(with Annuradha Tandon), ‘Putting Risk Management to the Test or Why it is Ineffectual to Separate Risk Assessment from Risk Management: The Story of Maximum Levels for Aflatoxins’, European Journal of Risk Regulation, Vol.1, No.2, 123-136, 2010
‘Literature festivals and the Sociology of Literature’ Arts in Society, Vol. 4, No. 4, 317-326, 2009
‘Tariq Ramadan vs. Daniel Cohn-Bendit or Why a European Model of Society based on Weak Citizenship is not such A Good Idea’, European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 465-481, 2009
‘Converging Technologies – What Future? The Views of the Science and Policy Communities’, Innovation; The European Journal of Social Science Research, Vol. 22, No. 4, 2009
(with Line Friis Lindner), ‘The Contemporary Governance of Food Safety – Taking Stock and Looking Ahead’, Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.36-49, 2009
Book review: N. Adnett and S. Hardy, The European Social Model: Modernization or Evolution? In European Journal of Social Security, Vol. 8, No. 2., pp.217-18 (June 2006).
(with Richard Heuberger), ‘Wohin entwickeln sich die Wohlfahrtsregimes?’, Kontraste 7, August 2005
(with Michael Schmidt), ‘Trans-Alpine Transport: A Local Problem in Search of European Solutions or a European Problem in Search of Local Solutions?’, Transport Reviews, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp.201-220 (March 2005)
‘The Use of the Foresight Method for Visioning Transport and Mobility Futures and Specifying Impact Pathways: Lessons for Process Management, Assessment and Evaluation’, Proceedings of the EU-US FTA Seminar, 2004, http://www.jrc.es/home/foresight_seminar/index.htm
Guest editor of Special Issue on Sustainable Mobility: Challenges, Opportunities and Conflicts; A Social Science Perspective of the International Social Science Journal, Blackwell, Issue 176, 2003.
(with Michael Schmidt), ‘European Transport Policy – Whence and Where To?’, in German Policy Studies/Politikfeldanalyse, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2002, www.spaef.com/GPS_PUB/index.html.
(with Schroeder-Wildberg, E. and Carius, A.), ‘Foresight for Sustainable Transport and Mobility’, Proceedings of the 2002 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, 2002, http://www.fu-berlin.de/ffu/akumwelt/bc2002/
(with Michael Schmidt), ‘Successes, Failures and Prospects for the Common Transport Policy’, Innovation; The European Journal of Social Science Research, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2001
(with John Crowley and Steven Ney), ‘Surveying the European Public Space – A Political and Research Agenda’, Innovation; The European Journal of Social Science Research, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 73-84, 2001
(with Annuradha Tanon), ‘Introduction: the theory and practice of evaluation’, in Giorgi, L. et al. (eds), Policy and Project Evaluation, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2001
(with Paul Freudensprung), ‘The Europeanisation of transport policy’, in Giorgi, L. and Pohoryles, R. (eds), Transport Policy and Research: What Future?, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000
(with Annuradha Tandon), ‘Towards a prioritisation of corridor developments in the East’, in Giorgi, L. and Pohoryles, R. (eds), Transport Policy and Research: What Future?, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000
(with Ronald J. Pohoryles), ‘Transport Policy and Research: What Future?’, in Giorgi, L. and Pohoryles, R. (eds), Transport Policy and Research: What Future?, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000
(with Ronald J. Pohoryles), ‘The Democratisation of Democracy – The Missing Link’, Innovation; The European Journal of Social Sciences, Editorial, Volume 13, No. 2, pp. 135-140, 2000
(with Michael R. Redclift), ‘The Evolution of Ideas’, Chapter 4 in Shove, E. et al. (eds), New Networks and New Agendas in Environmental Research and Policy, Frank Caas, 2000
(with Michael R. Redclift), ‘European Environmental Research in the Social Sciences: Research into Ecological Modernisation as a Boundary Object’, European Environment; The Journal of European Environmental Policy, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp.12-23, 2000
‘Über die soziale Lage österreichischer Familien’, in Österreichischer Familienbericht 1999, Wien, BUJF, 1999
(with Ronald J. Pohoryles), ‘Income Analysis and Social Inclusion Policies’, Innovation; The European Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp.549-566, 1999
(with Hans Steiner), ‘Armutsgefährdung und Armut in Österreich’, Sozialbericht 1997, Wien, BMAS, 1998
(with Hans Steiner) ‘Verteilungswirkungen der Sozialleistungen’, Wirtschaft u. Gesellschaft, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp.11-28, 1997
(with Hans Steiner) ‘Armut und Armutsbekämpfung in Österreich’, Sozialbericht 1996, Vienna, BMAS, 1997.
(with K. R. Cave, S. Pinker, C. Thomas, L. Heller, J. Wolfe and H. Lin), ‘The Representation of Locatio in Visual Images’, Cognitive Psychology 26, 1-32, 1994
(with Gabriele Schmid) ‘Health Care Services and Ethnic Minorities; the Case of Austria’, Innovation, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1993.
(with Ronald Pohoryles, Sabine Pohoryles-Drexel and Gabriele Schmid), ‘The Internal Logic and Contradictions of Migration Control: an Excursion into Theory and Practice in Relation to East-West Migration’, Innovation, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1992.
‘Constructing the Xenophobic Subject’, Innovation, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1992.
‘Religious Involvement in an Environment of Secularization’, British Journal of Sociology, January 1993.
‘The Protestant Work Ethic as a Cultural Phenomenon’, European Journal for Social Psychology, Vol.20, no.1, 1991.

Research Reports (selection)

European Arts Festivals: Cultural Pragmatics and Discursive Identity Frames; Literature & Comparative Parts Deliverable 3, FESTIVAL Project, 2010
Evaluation Methodology for Science-Policy Interface and Citizen Participation in the Field of Coastal Management (Water Framework Directive), Deliverable 3, AWARE Project, 2010
(with Line Friis Lindner and Ronald Pohoryles), Costs and Benefits of Compliance in the Food Sector; A Generic Evaluation Framework for Socio-Economic Analysis, Deliverable 7.8, MoniQA Network of Excellence, 2008
(with Line Friis Lindner) The Governance of Food Safety, Deliverable 7.1, MoniQA Network of Excellence, 2008
Governance, Territoriality and Europeanization: Whither Welfare Regimes?, Final Report NODE, 2005
The European Public Space Observatory; Assembling Information that Allows the Monitoring of European Democracy, Final Report EUROPUB, DG-RESEARCH, 2004
Foresight for Transport; A Foresight Exercise to Support Forward-Thinking and Cross-Sectoral Integration in Transport, Final Report FORESIGHT, DG-TREN, 2004
Guidelines for Impoving Evaluation in Transport, Final Report TRANS-TALK, DG-TREN, 2001
(with Annuradha Tandon), Corridor Developments and TEN Extensions to the East; Final Report, Project CODE-TEN, DG-TREN, 2000
(with Michael Schmidt), Country Report Bulgaria, Costs and Benefits of Enlargement in Transport, Project Report to PHARE Multi-Country Programme, 1999
(with Ronald J. Pohoryles), TENASSESS Final Report, Brussels, DG VII, 1999
The Social Situation of Austrian Households; Analysis of Second Wave ECHP Data in Austria, Vienna, ICCR/BMAS & EUROSTAT, 1998
(with Ronald J. Pohoryles), RTD Bilateral Co-operation with the Newly Independent States, Vienna, ICCR/DG XII, 1998
The Social Situation of Austrian Households; Analysis of First Wave ECHP Data in Austria, Vienna, ICCR/BMAS & EUROSTAT, 1997
Study on the Integration of Persons in Need of International Protection; Comparative Study of Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, Vienna, ICCR / UNHCR, 1996

 

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