Curriculum Vitae
Dr. soc., prof. Talis Tisenkopfs
Academic education:
1982-1985 - PhD studies in sociology of art, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
1975-1980 - Graduate studies in philosophy and sociology, University of Latvia.
Academic titles and scientific degrees:
2002 – Professor of sociology, University of Latvia
1999 – Associate professor in sociology, University of Latvia
1998 - Member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences
1992 - Dr.soc., Latvian Academy of Sciences
1989 - Cand. philos., Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
Fields of expertise
Sociology, rural and regional development, agro food chains, knowledge systems and innovation, social capital, community development, agricultural and rural restructuration in transition economies
Current employment:
VI 2002 – Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Latvia
1991- Board Member and Senior Researcher, Baltic Studies Centre
International experience
1997 – 2013 – participation in 12 EU 4th, 5th ,6th and 7th Framework Programme projects (MAS, TRUC, PubAcc, SUS-CHAIN, Multagri, Cofami, SINER-GI, IN-SIGHT, ETUDE, FOOD-LIKNS, POREFOOD, SOLINSA) has helped to build comparative research experience and knowledge in different European contexts.
Recent reference publications:
2011 – (forthcoming, accepted) Talis Tisenkopfs „The New Language of Sociology.” In: Luigi Tomasi (ed) Sociology. New Language. Ashgate.
2011 forthcoming – Tisenkopfs, Talis, Gianluca Brunori, Karlheinz Knickel and Sandra Sumane “Co-production of rural innovation”, AGER, Journal of Depopulation and Rural Development Studies.
2011 – Tisenkopfs, T., B.Bela un I.Kunda (zinātniskie redaktori) Augstskolas reģionos: zināšanu un prakses mijiedarbe. (Universities in Regions: Links between Knowledge and Praxis) Rīga: Zinātne, 495 lpp.
2011 – Tisenkopfs, Talis, Imre Kovach, Michal Lostak and Sandra Sumane “Rebuilding and Failing Collectivity: Specific Challenges for Collective Farmers Marketing Initiatives in Post-Socialist Countries”, International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. Vol. 18, No.1, pp. 70-88. http://www.ijsaf.org/contents/18-1/tisenkopfs/index.html
2011 – (forthcoming) James Kirwan, Talis Tisenkopfs and Adanella Rossi, “Mediating trust and locality: examining the nature, creation and communication of embeddedness in shaping sustainable food supply chains”, In: Wiskerke, J.S.C., G. van Huylenbroeck & J. Kirwan (eds). Sustaining food supply chains. Grounded perspectives on the dynamics and impacts of new modes of food provision. Ashgate, London.
Tisenkopfs, T. and I.Lace (2010) „Smiltene municipality:the construction of social capital”. In: Milone, P. and F.Ventura (eds) Networking the Rural. The Future of Green Regions in Europe. Assen: Van Gorcum. Pp.129-150.
2010 – Talis Tisenkopfs (ed.) Socioloģija Latvijā. (Sociology in Latvia) Rīga: University of Latvia Publishing House, 544 pp.
2009 – Tālis Tisenkopfs „Individual Responsibility: the Challenge of the Current Crisis”. Pp. 17-26 in : J.Rozenvalds & I.Ijabs (eds.) Latvia Human Development Report 2008/2009. Riga: ASPRI. Available at: http://szf.lu.lv/lat/petnieciba/sppi-instituts/petijumipublikacijas/tautas-attistiba-latvija/
2009 – Tālis Tisenkopfs „No mazas tautas pozīcijām”, grāmatā: Miervaldis Mozers (sastādītājs) Cicerons un mēs. Cicerona balvai 10 gadi. Rīga: Zinātne, 52.-54. lpp.
2009 – Talis Tisenkopfs „Oh, Blessed Ones. The Sixties Generation Whose Longings Transformed the world”, pp 209-217 in Jouko Nikula (ed) Maaseutuaiheita. Rural Motifs. Essays in Honour of Professor Leo Granberg. Aleksanteri Series 5/2009, University of Helsinki.
2008 – Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, Rudolf van Broekhuizen, Gianluca Brunori, Roberta Sonnino, Karlheinz Knickel, Talis Tisenkopfs and Henk Oostindie „Towards a framework for understanding regional rural development”, In: Jan Douwe van der Ploeg & Terry Marsden (eds) Unfolding Webs: The Dynamics of Regional Rural Development, Assen: Van Gorcum, pp. 1-28.
2008 – Talis Tisenkopfs, Ilze Lace and Inta Mierina „Social capital”, In: Jan Douwe van der Ploeg & Terry Marsden (eds) Unfolding Webs: The Dynamics of Regional Rural Development, Assen: Van Gorcum, pp. 87-110.
2008 – Tālis Tisenkopfs “Preface. Formation and development of sociology in Latvia since 1960s”. Scientific Papers University of Latvia, Vol. 736. Sociology: Sociology in Latvia – 40th Aniversary, Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds, pp. 6.-14. lpp.
2008 – Tālis Tisenkopfs “The new language of sociology: theoretical models, popular explanations and essays in contemporary sociology”. Scientific Papers University of Latvia, Vol. 736. Sociology: Sociology in Latvia – 40th Aniversary, Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds, pp. 168. - 186. lpp.
2007 – Tālis Tisenkopfs. „Uzburtā vieta”. Rīga: Neputns. 268 lpp. (Imagined Place, The Latvian Writers Union Literature Prise 2007 for outstanding work in the genre of essayistic).
2006 – Talis Tisenkopfs. “Human capability and quality of life. Researching quality of life in Latvia”. Social Sciences. Socialniai Mokslai, No. 3 (53) 2006: 7-16.
2006 – Baiba Bela, Tālis Tisenkopfs (eds) “Quality of Life in Latvia”. Rīga: Strategic Analysis Commission under the Auspices of the President of the Republic of Latvia, “Zinātne” Publishers. 430 pp. (In Latvian).
2006 – Tālis Tisenkopfs “Ziemeļu puspelēks ikdienas dilums. Nojēgums par ikdienas dzīvi latviešu dzejā”. (“The Meaning of Everyday life in Latvian Poetry”) Scientific Papers University of Latvia, Vol. 701. Sociology, Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds, pp. 34-70.
2006 – Talis Tisenkopfs, Sandra Sumane “A visionary and capable chain leader. Rankas Piens Dairy”. Dirk Roep and Han Wiskerke (eds) Nourishing Networks. Fourteen lessons about creating sustainable food supply chains. Wageningen: Wageningen University and Reed Business Information – Agriboek, pp. 79-90.
2006 – Baiba Bela, Tālis Tisenkopfs “Quality of Life in Latvia”. Žaneta Ozoliņa (ed.) Yearbook of Politics. Latvia 2005. Rīga, “Zinātne”, pp. 50.-78. (in Latvian)
2005 – Žaneta Ozoliņa un Tālis Tisenkopfs (eds.) “Latvija eiropeizācijas krustceļos” (Latvia at the Crossroads of Europeanisation). Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds. 135 lpp.
2004 – Talis Tisenkopfs and Sandra Sumane. “Rural Community Initiatives in the Latvian Countryside”. In Ilkka Alanen (ed.) Mapping Rural Problematics in the Baltic. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 219-247.
International conferences:
2009 – Talis Tisenkopfs „The new challenges of sociology”, paper presented at 9th Baltic Readings Conference „Paths of Transformations in the Baltic States after 1989”, Riga 25-26 September 2009.
2009 – Tisenkopfs, Talis, Gianluca Brunori, Karlheinz Knickel and Sandra Sumane (2009) “Co-production of rural innovation”, Paper presented at Working Group 4.8 “Embeddedness of Rural Enterprises – Developing Integrative Conceptual Frameworks for Understanding Rural Innovation and Development”, European Society for Rural Sociology XXIIIrd Conference, Vaasa, 17 – 20 August 2009
2008 - Talis Tisenkopfs „Individual and Collective Responsibility in Times of Turbulence“, Paper presented at the 8th Baltic Readings Conference „The World Economic Crisis and Its Social Eventualities“, Vilnius, The Institute for Social Research, 6 December 2008
2008 – Anne-Charlotte Dockess and Talis Tisenkopfs „Main findings and recommendations of the IN-SIGHT Project”, paper at the Final conference of the IN-SIGHT Project, Strengthening inovation processes in rural areas, Brussels, European Commission, 15 October 2008.
2008 – Topical expert on „Actors involved and the links between knowledge and innovation in agriculture and rural affairs” at SCAR (Standing Committee on Agricultural Research) Workshop „Strengthening the links between knowledge and agricultural innovation in Europe”, Angers, 6-7th October.
2008 – Talis Tisenkopfs. „Critical social processes in Latvia since 1990”. Opening lecture at the 6th annual TiSSA (The International social Work & Society Academy) Plenum & PreConference, Riga, August 18-24, 2008.
2008 – Dominique Barjolle, Gilles Allaire, Talis Tisenkopfs „Empirical evidences on rural development impacts”, Paper presented at SINER-GI Final Conference, Geneva, 23-24 June 2008
2007 – “Youth and Empowerment of Rural Communities”. Paper presented at the XXIInd Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology „Mobilities, Vulnerabilities and Sustainabilities”, Working Group 22 “Development, Resistance and Empowerment”, Wageningen, 20-24 August 2007.
2007 – Working Group Convenor, WG 22 “Development, Resistance and Empowerment”, XXIInd Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology, 20-24 August 2007, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
National and international research projects:
X 2011 – I 2012 – Senior Researcher, ERDF Project „Support to International Collaborative Projects in Science and Technology at University of Latvia”, Project „Preparation of FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Networks Proposal SUSPLACE – Sustainable place-making”, LU project. nr.: ESS2010/100.
II 2011 – I 2014 - SOLINSA - Agricultural Knowledge Systems in Transition: Towards a More Effective and Efficient Support of Learning and Innovation Networks for Sustainable Agriculture. FP7, CT KBBE-2010-4-266306.
XII 2010 – XI 2014 – PUREFOOD „Urban, peri-urban and regional food dynamics: toward an integrated and territorial approach to food”, Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie) Networks for Initial Training (ITN), FP7-PEOPLE-2010-INT, Grant Agreement 264719.
I 2011 – XII 2013 – FOODLINKS „Knowledge Brokerage to Promote Sustainable Food Consumption and Production: Linking Scientists, Policymakers and Civil Society Organizations”, EU 7th FP Project, Contract No. 265287, ENV.2010.4.2.3-3 http://www.foodlinkscommunity.net/foodlinks-home.html
II 2009 – IV 2011 – Research director, „Research Potential of Higher Education Institutions for the Enhancement of Regional Development”, EEA and Norway Grants.
2007 – 2008 - Project director, „Life plans of young people and their outlook on regional development”. LU research grant Y2-Z77.
II 2007 – I 2009 – ETUDE „Enlarging the Theoretical Understanding of Rural Development”, EU 6th FP Project, Contract No. SSPE-CT-2006-044245
XII 2006 – XI 2008 - IN-SIGHT „Strengthening Innovation Processes for Growth and Development”, EU FP6 Project, Contract No. SSP-2005-44510
2007 – Project director, Latvia Human Development Report 2007, ASPRI, University of Latvia.
2005 – 2008 – project director – “Changes in Everyday Life in Contemporary Latvia”, The Latvian Council of Sciences research grant Nr. 05.1911
V 2005 – IV 2008 – SINER-GI „Strengthening International Research on Geographical Indications: From Research Foundation to Consistent Policy”, EU 6th FP Project, Contract No. SSPE-CT-2005-006522
2005 – 2005 – “Quality of Life in Latvia”, Project commissioned by the Commission for Strategic Analysis.
IX 2005 – V 2008 – COFAMI „Encouraging Collective Farmers Marketing Initiatives”, EU 6th FP Project, Contract No SSPE-CT-2005-006541
2004 – 2005 – “Women Towards ownership in Business and Agriculture”, EU Community Framework Strategy on Gender Equality project.
II 2004 – VII 2005 – MULTAGRI “Capitalisation of Research Results on the Multifunctionality of Agriculture and Rural Areas”, EU FP5 Project (Specific Support Action), Contract No. GOCE-CT-2003-505297, subcontractor to the University of Helsinki
I 2003 – VI 2006 – SUS-CHAIN „Marketing Sustainable Agriculture: An analysis of the Potential Role of New Food Supply Chains in Sustainable Rural Development”, EU FP5 Project, Contract No. QLK5-CT-2002-01349
VIII 2001 – VI 2004 – PubAcc „Researching Public Accountability Procedures in Different European Societies”, EU FP5 Project, Contract No. HPSE-CT-2001-00076
I 2002 – XII 2003 – TRUC „Transformation of Rural Communication”, EU FP5 Project, Contract Nr. QLK5-CT-2001-30025
Academic courses and supervision of PhD thesis:
2008 – Supervisor of four doctoral students (Ilze Lāce, Matīss Neimanis, Viola Korpa, Sandris Mūriņš)
2008 – “International comparative research” (together with prof. Tabuns), MA programme, Part A, 4 credits.
2002 - “The newest tendencies in sociological theory and research”, PhD course.
2000 - “Human development”, MA programme course, Part A, 4 credits.
2000 - “Seminar in contemporary social theories”, MA programme course, Part A, 2 credits.
2005 – “Post-modern social theories”, BA programme course, Part A, 2 credits.
1999 - “Micro-sociological theories”, BA programme course, Part A, 4 credits.
1999 - “Sociological practice”, BA programme course, Part A, 2 credits.
Committee, professional memberships:
2011 – Independent Expert Evaluator of research proposals, call FP7-KBBE-2012, European Commission RTD/E/04: Biotechnologies, Agriculture, Food
2011 – Latvian representative at UNESCO Programme MOST Intergovernmental Council.
2010 – 2014 – Latvian representative in COST domain “Individuals, Society, Culture and Health”.
2010 – 2011 – Independent expert on “Agricultural knowledge and innovation systems” (AKIS), European Commission, Directorate E: Biotechnologies, Agriculture, Food.
2009 – Member of assessment committee for appointment of professor with special responsibilities for Rural Sociology at Department of Rural Research and Development, University of Southern Denmark.
2009 – Chairman of consultative committee of University of Latvia “New cooperation ideas”.
2007 – 2008 - Expert at the Ministry of Regional Development and Local Municipalities for elaboration of Latvia’s long term development strategy.
2004 – Chairman of the Board, Advanced Social and Political Research Institute
2005 – 2008 - Member of the Commission for Strategic Analysis under the auspices of the President of Latvia
2003 – 2005 - National expert, European Commission, DG XII, Directorate K, Specific Programme “Integrating and strengthening the European research area” Integrating Programme Committee on “Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-Based Society”, Priority 7 of the 6th Framework Programme.
2002 – 2010 - Chairmen, Professors Council in Demography, Sociology, Political Science and Communication Science of the University of Latvia.
2001 – Member of the Promotion Board in Sociology, University of Latvia.
1998 – Corresponding member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.
Date: December 2011 Signature
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