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Daiva Repečkaitė, Senior Researcher

 

 

Daiva works as a senior researcher in a number of PPMI’s research projects on education, social policy and EU horizontal priorities. She specialises in equal opportunity policies and education reforms.

 

 

 

Key areas of expertise

  • Policy areas: education, equal opportunities, social inclusion, migration.
  • Methods: in-depth and semi-structured interviews, statistical analysis (using SPSS), qualitative comparative analysis (using Tosmana)
  • Project management: creation and management of international expert networks.
Daiva is also a freelance contributor to several newspapers and magazines on social policy topics. During her earlier career in journalism, she won the national selection of the European Young Journalist Award “Enlarge your vision” and the Japan Foundation grant for young researchers and journalists. 

Education

  • PhD candidate, Cultural Anthropology, Free University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), since 2010.
  • MA, Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University (Hungary), 2008.
  • BA, Political Science, Vilnius University (Lithuania), 2007 (best BA thesis of 2007 award).

Additional training abroad: 2011 – Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea; industrial ecology and cultural export from South Korea), 2009 – Tokyo University (Japan; migration and integration) and Tel Aviv University (Israel; migration and integration), 2005 Gothenburg University (Sweden; focus on gender equality policies).

Daiva has also attended a course on evaluation and monitoring of media support programmes (2009, summer school by University of Pennsylvania and Central European University), and trainings in SPSS and qualitative comparative analysis.

Selected publications

  1. Between Dragons and Bridges: Production of Relational Knowledge about China. Köln: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011.
  2. “Austerity gainst the Homo Sovieticus: Political control, class imaginings, and ethnic categorization in the Vilnius riots of 2009.” Focaal, 2011, 59: 51-65.
  3. “Japan’s immigration policy closed front doors and performative migration.” Politologija, 2009, 4(56): 103-126.
  4. “Being JapPino: outstanding status and networking practices among Filipinos in Tokyo.” Socialiniai mokslai, 2009, 4(66): 98-105.