Brief Profile for Dr. Aurelija Ulbinaitė The speech topic：will be announced soon

 

 

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EDUCATION

 

·    November  2012:  PhD in Management  and Administration,  Social  Science,  Vilnius  University, Lithuania. PhD thesis: “Systematic evaluation of insurance consumer behaviour in the Lithuanian insurance market”.

 

·    December 2007: MSc in Economics and Business Administration (specialization – International Business Economics), Aalborg University, Denmark. MSc thesis: “Lithuanian insurance market attractiveness from an international perspective: market opportunity analysis”.

 

·    December 2007:   Danish language certificate “Studieprøven i dansk” 6/6 level, recognized by the

Danish authorities, Sprogcenter Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark.

 

·    June  2004:  MSc  in  Management  and  Business  Administration   (specialization  –  Insurance Management), Vilnius University, Lithuania.      MSc    thesis:    “Lithuanian    insurance    market development forecasts for 2004-2010” (original title – “Lietuvos draudimo rinkos plėtros prognozės

2004-2010 metams”).

 

·    June  2002:  BSc  in  Management   and  Business  Administration   (specialization   –  Insurance

Management), Vilnius University, Lithuania. Final exams passed.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

·     From  September  2013:  lecturer  and  researcher,  Business  Department,  Faculty  of  Economics, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.

 

·     September 2008 – August 2013: assistant professor, Business Department, Faculty of Economics, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.

 

      o December 2012 – February 2013: visiting researcher, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.

 

o November – December 2012: visiting researcher, Tongji University, School of Economics and Management, Shanghai, China.

 

        o December 2010 – February 2011: visiting researcher, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.

o June – July 2010: visiting researcher, City University of Seattle, Highschool of Management, Trenčin, Slovakia.

 

o December 2009 – February 2010: visiting researcher, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.

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RESEARCH PROFILE

 

·     Research interests: insurance, consumer behaviour, models for consumer behaviour in insurance services, management, business and administration, service industry, service marketing.

 

·     Publications:  5  journal  papers,  9  conference  papers,  1  PhD  dissertation,  1  PhD  dissertation summary, 1 book review, 1 scholar work, 3 working papers. See the attached list for details.

 

 

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TEACHING PROFILE

 

 

·    Taught subjects (BSc level):

 

o Life Insurance

o Life and Health Insurance

o Property Insurance

o Commercial Property Management and Insurance

o Insurance

o Insurance Business (taught in English)

 

·    Taught subjects (MSc level):

 

o Management of Insurance Processes

o Business Diagnostics

o Specialisation seminar for MSc theses in Business Process Management

 

·    Supervision (MSc level)

 

o Supervision of 6 students

 

·    Supervision, reviews and participation in defence committees (BSc level):

 

o Supervision, review   participation in defence committees of more than 100 student projects, yearly papers and internships

 

·    External teaching activities (BSc level):

 

o June – July 2010: City University of Seattle, Highschool of Management, Trenčin, Slovakia.

Course on Knowledge Management Concepts and Methods, supervised an international team of

students.

 

 

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AWARDS

 

 

·     Research award from the Faculty of Economics of Vilnius University in the category “Doctoral students, Teaching and Research Assistants and Lecturers” for scientific achievements in 2011.

·    Best master thesis of Business Department of the Faculty of Economics of Vilnius University in

2004-2007.

 

·   Best student paper for “Impact of Micro-environment on the expansion of the Lithuanian Insurance Market”  (original  title  –  “Makroaplinkos  įtaka  Lietuvos  draudimo  rinkos  plėtrai”),  Student Research Conference 2003, Faculty of Economics, Vilnius University.

 

 

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ACADEMIC SERVICES

 

 

·    Since September 2013: internship coordinator for Business Risk and Insurance specialisation of the

Faculty of Economics of Vilnius University.

 

·    Since September 2013: consultant for using SPSS software for MSc theses.

 

·    Since April 2013: council member of the Lithuanian Society of Young Researchers.

 

·    Since April 2013: member of Economic Expertise Centre of the Faculty of Economics of Vilnius

University.

 

·    Reviewer for the scientific journal “Economics”. ISSN 1392-1258.

 

·    Reviewer for the following conferences:

o International scientific conference “Whither our economies – 2013”;

o International  scientific  conference  “Economic  transformations  and  business  prospects  – 2013”;

o International   scientific   conference   for  young  researchers   “Social   transformations   in contemporary society – 2013”;

o International  scientific  conference  “Practice  and research  in public and private sector – 2013”;

o Student scientific conference of the Faculty of Economics of Vilnius University – 2011-2013.

 

 

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ATTENDED LIFELONG LEARNING COURSES

 

 

·    June 2013, Mykolas Romeris University, Workshop on Plagiarism: how to avoid it and make your own contribution to science

·    April-May  2013,  Vilnius  University,  Projection  and  Implementation  of  Open  and  E-learning Courses

·    November 2011, Manchester Metropolitan University – Case Study Training for Vilnius University

·    November 2011, Taylor & Francis’ How to Get Published Workshop

·    October 2011, Vilnius University Teaching Experience and Skill Development

·    March 2011, Implementation of Imitation Models in the Educational Process

·    March 2011, Integration of Web Seminars into the Educational Process

·    February 2011, Actualities of Theory and Practice of Asset Evaluation

·    November 2010, Using Vilnius University Virtual Learning Environment

·    November 2010, Emerald Publishers’ An Insider's guide to getting published in research journals

·     November 2010, LIA Distance Learning on i) Presentations – MS PowerPoint, ii) Communication on the Internet, iii) Security on the Internet

·    October 2010, eMoDB.LT: Electronic Databases, Opening Up the Science of Lithuania

·     March-May 2010, Methods for Statistical Processing of Scientific Results Techniques: Principles and Practical Applications (SPSS tool)

 

 

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LANGUAGES

 

 

·    Lithuanian: mother tongue

·    English: fluent

·    Danish: good

·    Russian: good

·    French: medium

·    German: medium

·    Chinese: beginner

 

 

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PUBLICATIONS

 

 

·    Peer-reviewed journal papers

 

o   Ulbinaitė,  Aurelija;  Kučinskienė,  Marija  (2013).  Insurance  service  purchase  decision-making rationale: expert-based evidence from Lithuania. Economics, Vol. 92, issue 2, pp. 137-155. ISSN 1392-1258.

 

o   Ulbinaitė, Aurelija; Kučinskienė, Marija; Le Moullec, Yannick (2013). Determinants of insurance purchase decision making in Lithuania. – Engineering Economics, Vol. 24, issue 2, pp. 144-159. ISSN 1392 – 2785. Indexed by Web of Knowledge (ISI).

 

o   Ulbinaitė,  Aurelija;  Kučinskienė,  Marija;  Le  Moullec,  Yannick  (2011).  Conceptualising  and simulating insurance consumer behaviour: an agent-based-model approach. International Journal of Modeling and Optimization, 2011, Vol. 1, issue 3, pp. 250-257. ISSN 2010-3697.

 

o   Ulbinaitė,   Aurelija;   Le  Moullec,   Yannick   (2010).   Towards   an  ABM-based   framework   for investigating consumer behaviour in the insurance industry. – Economics, Vol. 89, issue 2, 2010, pp.

95-110. ISSN 1392-1258.

 

o   Kindurys, Vytautas; Ulbinaitė, Aurelija (2004). Forecasts for the development of the Lithuanian insurance market in 2004-2010. – Ekonomika ir vadyba, 2004, Vol. 2, issue 8, pp. 43-53. ISSN

1392-8732.

 

·    Peer-reviewed conference proceedings papers

 

o   Ulbinaitė,  Aurelija;  Balskutė,  Odeta  (2013).  Evaluation  of the state  of communication  between insurers and insurance consumers: a consumer opinion survey (Original title – Draudikų ir draudėjų komunikavimo būsenos vertinimas: vartotojų nuomonės tyrimas). 3rd international scientific conference “Whither our economies – 2013” proceedings, October 24-25, 2013, Vilnius, Lithuania, pp. 187-200. ISSN (online) 2029-8501.

 

o   Ulbinaitė,  Aurelija  (2013).  Perceived  affordability  as  a  key-determinant  of  insurance  service purchase: the case of Lithuania. International conference “Economic transformations and business prospects” proceedings, September 26-27, 2013, Vilnius, Lithuania. Economics, Vol. 92, issue 92(3) Supplement B, pp. 235-250. ISSN 1392-1258.

o   Ulbinaitė,  Aurelija  (2013).  Non-Consumption  of  insurance  services  due  to  the  availability  of alternatives: empirical evidence from Lithuania. 3rd international scientific conference “Practice and research in public and private sector 2013” Conference proceedings, April 11-12, Vilnius, Lithuania, pp. 300-311. ISSN (online) 2029-7378.

 

o   Ulbinaitė, Aurelija; Kučinskienė,  Marija; Le Moullec, Yannick (2011). Integration  of the decoy effect in an agent-based-model simulation of insurance consumer behavior. International Conference on Computer and Business Management (ICCBM), July 1-2, 2011, Kathmandu,  Nepal. IPCSIT Proceedings (IACSIT Press, Singapore), 2011, Vol. 9, pp. 152-157. ISSN 2010-460X. Indexed by Web of Knowledge (ISI proceedings).

 

o Ulbinaitė,  Aurelija  (2011).  The complexity  of the insurance  purchase  decision  making  process.

Smithy of ideas 2011: scientific camp, June 30 - July 3, 2011, Trakai, Lithuania. Book of abstracts

(Lithuanian Society of Young Researchers), 2011, pp. 22-23. ISBN 978-9955-875-01-7.

 

o   Ulbinaitė, Aurelija (2011). The Evolution of Consumer Behaviour Models: From General Models to Insurance Consumer Behaviour Modelling Efforts (Original title – Vartotojų elgsenos modelių evoliucionavimas: nuo bendrųjų modelių iki pastangų modeliuoti draudimo paslaugų vartotojų elgseną). 1st international scientific conference “Practice and research in private and public sector-