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Name:
Helen Sooväli
Date of
birth: December
17, 1974
Nationality:
Estonian
Current
job: Lecturer at Institute of Geography, University of Tartu
E-mail:
Helen.Soovali@ut.ee
Educational
history
1982-1993: Tallinn Secondary School No. 7
1993-1994: University of Stockholm, Institute
of English Speaking Students
1995-1998:
Tallinn Pedagogical University (major fields of study – the Swedish language and
literature, the
Norwegian language and literature, the English language, teacher
training), BA
1998-2000: University of Tartu (major fields of
study
Scandinavian
studies, social studies), M
2000-2004:
University of Tartu, Institute
of Geography, Phd studies in human geography.
Courses
attended
Summer course on Icelandic, Icelandic
culture and society, Reykjavík, 1998
Summer course on Greenlandic, Greenlandic
culture and society, Nuuk, 2000
Summer course on Swedish culture and
society, Stockholm, 2000
PhD course Studying Multifunctional
Landscapes and Participating in Scientific Conferences, Roskilde
2000
PhD course
NOLD Nordic Research School on Local Dynamics and Rural Development,
Helsinki, 2001
PhD course Land, landscape, society, Stockholm, 2002
PhD course NOLD Philosophy
of Science and methodology in ‘global/local’ analyses, Roskilde,
2002.
PhD course NOLD Mobility, Culture and
Tourism, Reykjavik,
Höfn, 2002
Experience
1994 au-pair, Sweden
1997-2001 Tallinn Pedagogical
University, teacher in Swedish
1998-2002: University of Tartu, assistant in Swedish
Since 2002: University of Tartu, lecturer in human geography
2005 Institute
of Ecology, Tallinn University, project assistant
2005 July
Cambridge University, Cambridge Colleges' Hospitality Scheme
2005-2006
October-February, Fulbright visiting scholar, UCLA, California
Teaching
Cultural geography (course submitted to
the curricula of geography, MA for cultural management, for
teachers of geography)
Dissertations
advised
15 BA thesises in the department
Scandinavian studies, Institute of Geography, University of
Tartu, Tallinn University
Scientific Activity
The 20th Session of The
Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape
(Tartu-Otepää, Estonia, August 2002) organiser;
Nordic
Research Course on Landscape
and Seasonality (Estonia, 2003) organiser;
The
21th Session of The
Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape
(Lemnos,
Lesvos Greece, 2004) organising committee;
The
Annual Conference of
Estonian Social Sciences, (Tartu November 2004) organising
committee;
Co-editor
for Palang, H., H.
Sooväli, M. Antrop, G. Setten (Eds.) 2004: European Rural
Landscapes:
Persistence and Change in a Globalising Environment. Kluwer.
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