Daiga Kamerāde

My CV                                                                             

Education
Work experience
Other exprience
Awards and scholarships
Publications and conference papers
Computer skills
Languages
Interests

Education

•  2004-curently studies for  PhD in Social and Political Sciences, (University of Cambridge, UK)
• 2002-2003 MPhil in Social and Developmental Psychology (University of Cambridge, UK) .
  
•   1998-2000 Master of Social Science in Psychology (Pedagogical University of Daugavpils, Latvia).
• 1993-1997 Bachelor of Psychology (Higher School of Rezekne, Latvia).

Work experience

• 2001-2003 August Head of Department of Organizational Psychology (Riga Teacher Training and Educational Management Academy, Latvia
• 1999 –2003 August Lecturer and Supervisor (Riga Teacher Training and Educational Management Academy, Latvia) Courses: Organisational Psychology, Work Psychology, and Psychology of Advertising, Management Psychology and Methodology of Teaching Psychology
•  2000-2002 Human Resource Management consultant, SIA ‘ Hansa-electronics’, Latvia
•   1999 -2000 Administrator of Study Department (Riga Technical University Distance Education Study Centre, Latvia)
•   1997-1999 Assistant Lecturer (Higher School of Rezekne, Latvia) Courses: General Psychology, Psychology of Communication, Social Psychology
• 1997 -1999 Teacher in Psychology (High School of Varaklani, Latvia).

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Other exprience

• Researcher in project  ‘ Psychological and social aspects of work life quality in organisations in Latvia’(funded by Latvian Council of Science) (July 2002 – October 2003)
• The Chairperson of the Committee of Research and Mass media in the Society Integration Fund (Latvia) (2002/January- July)
• Participation in the project “Training for Adult Educators for Nordic and Baltic countries” (2000 -2002)
• Developing and leading training courses for employees in different companies (2000-2002)
•    Author of popular science articles in organisational and occupational psychology for Internet portal Apollo (2000-2002), for career and education journal “Merkis” ( 2001-2002).
• Moderator of focus groups and interviewer in market and public opinion research in different companies (SKDS, AGE, Alfresco) (2000-2002)
• Participation in UNDP program ‘Training of trainers for women in business’ (22/03- 16/04/1999)
• Guest lecturer in Riga International College of Business Administration ( October 2003 to May 2004);
• Guest lecturer in Riga Technical University (March - May 2004)

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Awards and scholarships

• Bursuary for young scientists, 2nd European Conference in Positive Psychology, Verbania Intra, Italy (5-8 July 2004)
  
• Award of the Year 2003 for Young Scientists in Social Sciences,  Latvian Council of Sciences, Lattelekom and Latvian Foundation of Education (14 January 2004)
• OSI /FCO Scholarship for Baltic States and Ukraine, 2002/2003
• Nordic Council of Ministers Scholarship for research period in Nordic Folks Academy (Gothenburg, Sweden), 9JanuaryFebruary 2002

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Publications and conference papers.

• D.Kamerade, B.Burchell (2004). Teleworking and Participatory Capital: Is Teleworking an Isolating or a Community Friendly Form of Work? European Sociological Review, 20 (4),  347-362
  

• Kamerade, D. , B.Burchell (2004). Does Teleworking Contribute to the Likelihood of Community Participation or Social Isolation? Second European Conference on Positive Psychology, July 5-8, Verbania Intra, Italy

• D.Kamerade (2004) Steve Woolgar(ed.), Virtual Society? Technology, Cyberbole, Reality, 18 (2)Work, employment and Society, Book Review, 452-453

• D.Kamerade, B.Burchell (2003). Teleworking as community friendly form of work in EU and accession countries. The Challenge of Mobility in the Baltic Sea Region, PhD Euro Conference (under High Level Scientific Conferences), October 23-26, Gdanks/Sopot, Poland
•  D.Kamerade, B.Burchell (2003). Teleworking and Social Capital: Is Teleworking an Isolating or Community Friendly from of Work. Proceedings of International Symposium on Teleworking, 7 October 2003, Sofia, Bulgaria, 35-38
•   D.Kamerade, B.Burchell (2003). Teleworking and Participation in the community: Are We Becoming an Autistic Society? The European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop “ Income, Interaction and Subjective Well-being”, 25-26 September, Paris, France
•  D.Kamerade (2003). Teleworking in Accession Countries: the Neglected Perspectives. Proceeding of Open Minds, Conference for Young Scientists, 13-15 September, Lodz, Poland, 182-187
• D.Kamerade, B.Burchell (2003). Teleworking and Social Capital: Is Teleworking an Isolating or Community Friendly from of Work. 24^th International Working Party for Labour Market Segmentation Conference, 8-10 September, Rome, Italy
• D.Kamerade.(2003) Teleworking in Candidate Countries: Present and Future. Conference Human Development in EU Accession Countries, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, June 1-2 , Riga, Latvia
• D.Kamerade (2003) Myth of Social Isolation: Teleworking and Social Participation. Fourth Inter-University Graduate Conference in Social Psychology, May 10, University of Cambridge, UK
• D.Kamerade (2003). Free Access to the Internet- an Important Ingredient for the Long-term Welfare of any Country. UK Scholars Midyear conference. OSI Network Scholarship Program, April  4-6 , Bath, UK
•   D.Kamerade (2002). Education Opportunities for Managers of Adult Education Institutions in Latvia. Baltic Sea Dialogues, 5 (1), p.4-5
•  D.Kamerade (2002). Insight in the Psychology of Advertising. Riga: I&P
• D.Kamerade, A.Lasmane (2002). Person-organization fit: the match between employees' perception of existing organizational culture and their organizational culture preferences in context of Latvia. V International Baltic Psychology Conference, August 22 - 25,Tartu, Estonia

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Computer skills

•  Experienced user: MS Office, Lotus Notes, Internet programs
• Intermediate: SPSS; EndNote, Reference Manager
• Basics:  Adobe Photoshop, Web Page authoring).

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Language skills
Latvian- native, English – fluently, Russian – fluently, German- average

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Interests
Ballrom dancing
Biology
IT
Project management

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Last updated
  28 July  2004