Liana Giorgi Vice-Director ICCR Vienna Phone: +43.1.524 13 93-150 Fax: +43.1.524 13 93-200 Email: l.giorgi@iccr-international.org Postal Address: ICCR Schottenfeldgasse 69/1 1070 Vienna, Austria

Curriculum Vitae

Educational Qualifications

B.Sc. in Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA
Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK

Present Post

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

In charge of Research Programmes SPA ‘Social Policy Analysis’ and TEA ‘Transport Policy Analysis and Evaluation’ of the ICCR; Finances; Editor (together with Ronald J. Pohoryles) of the journal 'Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research' (Taylor and Francis), of the ICCR Book Series ‘Current Trends in European Transformations’ (Ashgate) and ICCR book series ‘Social Science Perspectives’ (Passagen Verlag).

Employment Experience

Research Fellow at ICCR (1991-1995)
Post-Doctoral Fellow at University of Amsterdam (1990-1991)

Language Skills

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

Scientific Coordination of Projects (selection)

(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, 2005-2007
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

Books

(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

(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 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)

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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