Diāna Kalniņa

Work experience

2019 - Present	Research Assistant - PhD student, Riga Stradiņš University, Department of Communication Studies, Faculty of Communication, Riga (Latvia)
2018 - Present	Acting Lecturer Faculty of Medicine, Learning Laboratory of Statistics
2015 - 2018	Research expert “Accenture”, Latvian subsidiary
2003 - Present	Project Director Marketing and public research centre SKDS
1997 - 2001	Project Manager Ltd. "Baltijas Datu nams"/ TNS Latvia
1997 - 1997	Fellow employee Latvian Social research center
1993 - 1996	Teacher of mathematics and health education Riga Sanatorium boarding-school
1988 - 1992	Methodologist, head of Tourism and Sports, Deputy Director Pupil Creative house in Latgale suburb
1986 - 1998	Teacher Preschool educational institution
1983 - 1986	Secretary A mountaineering federation

Education and training

2016 - 2019	PhD candidate Rīga Stradiņš University Faculty of Communication
2011 - 2014	Master’s degree of Social Sciences in Communication Rīga Stradiņš University
1992 - 1993	Master's degree in Pedagogy The University of Latvia
1984 - 1991	Master's degree in Mathematics The University of Latvia

Achievements

Continuing education a.o. qualification upgrade

“Methods and technologies of Presentation” Riga, 2015

“Data analyse and reporting through electronic tables”, Riga, 2015

“Project management” Riga, 2011

English course, Sydney, Australia, 2009

Projects

Participation in RSU Communication faculty Summer school “Cultural journalism”. “Crisis, values and culture” in 18.07.2016. with the report “The culture of Latvian nation – do we have to be sorry for us and wait something from others?” Summer school was made with RSU scientific research help. “Crisis overcoming in Latvia” and VPP EKOSOC-LV under project “Value and action models reflection in socio and economic time of changes”.

Participation in the National Research Program for National Economy Transformation, Smart Growth, Governance and
the legal framework for sustainable development of the state and society - a new approach to sustainable knowledge
Building a society (EKOSOC_LV) in subproject no. 5.2.5. Time: Jan 2017-Jun 2018

NATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAMME “LATVIAN HERITAGE AND FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE STATE” project “CHALLENGES FOR THE LATVIAN STATE AND SOCIETY AND THE SOLUTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT (INTERFRAME-LV)”; Time: Jan 2019-Nov 2021

Memento Mori: End of Life, Death and Imagined Afterlife in the Contemporary Latvian Lifeworld; Time: Jan 2020-Dec 2022

Memberships

2018 - present; Alumni Club of the University of Latvia
2017 - present; Member of the Latvian Sociological Association
2017 - present; AABS | Member of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies
2016 - present; Alumni Association of the Riga Stradins University

Publications

Chapter “Latvian business culture. Hofstede cultural dimension index measurement nationally representative survey " in monography “Economic crisis in Latvia: aftertaste of succsess story”, red. Sergejs Kruks. Released in 2016. Rīga Stradiņš University.

D.Kalniņa "What do you know about yourself? How it helps in collegial communication "; Medicus Bonus, published February-March 2017 issue No 28: pp. 58-61.

Chapter "Attitudes to social action in different socio-demographic groups" in the collection of scientific articles of "The Pluralism anxiety" in the EKOSOC-LV scientific paper, red. Sergejs Kruks. Issued in 2018 at Rīga Stradiņš University, pages 105-125.

D.Kalniņa, A.Kazoka "Musculoskeletal Signs of the Significance of the Feminine Value of Latvia in Society". The collections of scientific articles of the Daugavpils University "Cultural Studies" will be issued in early 2019.