Brief Profile for Dr. Aurelija Ulbinaitė
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
LANGUAGES
· Lithuanian: mother tongue
· English: fluent
· Danish: good
· Russian: good
· French: medium
· German: medium
· Chinese: beginner
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-
11. To consolidate researches of academicians and practitioners”, May 5, 2011, Vilnius, Lithuania, pp. 327-337. ISSN 2029-7378.
o Ulbinaitė, Aurelija (2010). Theoretical Aspects of Insurance Consumer Behaviour (Original title – Vartotojų elgsenos ypatumų draudimo paslaugų vartojimo atžvilgiu teoriniai aspektai). Scientific conference “Business, management and education 2010: Contemporary Regional Issues”, November
18, 2010, Vilnius, Lithuania. Conference proceedings [Electronic publication (CD)], [p. 1-12]. ISBN
9789955287575.
o Ulbinaitė, Aurelija (2004). Lithuanian Insurance Market Development in 1998-2003 (Original title – Lietuvos draudimo rinkos vystymosi tendencijos 1998–2003 metais). – Draudimo vadybos studentų mokslinės konferencijos pranešimų tezės, Vilniaus universitetas, Vilnius, 2004, pp. 39-43.
o Ulbinaitė, Aurelija (2003). Impact of Micro-environment on the expansion of the Lithuanian Insurance Market (Original title – Makroaplinkos įtaka Lietuvos draudimo rinkos plėtrai). – Studentų mokslinės konferencijos draudimo vadybos sekcijos pranešimų tezės, Vilniaus universitetas, Vilnius, 2003, pp. 3-8.
· PhD dissertation
o Ulbinaitė, Aurelija (2012). Systematic Evaluation of Insurance Consumer Behaviour in the Lithuanian Insurance Market (Original title – Draudėjų elgsenos sisteminis vertinimas Lietuvos draudimo rinkoje) (Doctoral dissertation). Vilnius: VU leidykla. 2012. – 273 p.
· PhD dissertation summary
o Ulbinaitė, Aurelija (2012). Systematic Evaluation of Insurance Consumer Behaviour in the Lithuanian Insurance Market (Summary of doctoral dissertation). Vilnius: VU leidykla. 2012. – 62 p.
· Peer-reviewed book review
o Stašys, Rimantas; Ulbinaitė, Aurelija (2011). Life Insurance Business and its Development Tendencies and Manifestations in Lithuania. Monograph review. Management Theory and Studies for Rural Business and Infrastructure Development, Vol. 5, issue 29, 2011, pp. 231-235. ISSN 1822-
6760.
· Scholar work
o Ulbinaitė, Aurelija (2011). Lithuanian Insurance Market Attractiveness from an International View: Market Opportunity Analysis. Saarbrücken, Germany: LAP LAMBERT academic publishing. 2011.
– 114 p. ISBN 978-3-8443-1147-1.
· Contribution to popular science
o Stoškuvienė, Vaida (2012). Importing the Western insurance culture in Lithuania is difficult (Original title – Vakarietiška draudimo kultūra kelią Lietuvoje skinasi sunkiai). Weekly journal “Veidas”, Vol. 46, 12th -18th November, 2012, pp. 16-19.
· Working papers
o Ulbinaitė, Aurelija; Kučinskienė, Marija; Le Moullec, Yannick. The complexity of the insurance purchase decision making process. Submitted to: Transformations in Business and Economics. – 22 p. ISSN: 1648-4460.
o Ulbinaitė, Aurelija. Insurance service purchase and consumption rationale: expert-based evidence in
Lithuania (part II). – 16 p.
o Ulbinaitė, Aurelija. Insurance consumer behaviour. Chapter in monograph collection.
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