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Senior Researcher, Ph.D., Docent

Core competencies

• Cultural identities
• Culture as tool in local development and in tourism 
• Development of cultural activities 
• Empowerment and local development 
• Cultural sustainable development 
• Qualitative, ethnographical methods 
• Empowering futures studies methods 
• Empowering strategic processes
• A semiotic theory of culture
  

Lectures on conferences

• ”What should sustain in culture?”, keynote lecture, Ethnos ry, The Assosiation of Finnish Ethnologists, Unicversity of Turku, European Ethnology and Åbo Akademi university, Ethnology, VI Kansatieteen päivät, Etsi kuvasta kulttuuriperintö, kulttuurin, politiikan ja identiteettien risteyksessä (VI Days of Ethnology on cultural heritage), Turku, Finland, 19.3.2010
• “What is Sustainable and Authentic Tourism?”, ECTN European Cultural Tourism Network, V Annual Conference, Culture with a twist – New ways of thinking cultural tourism, Track 3 Versatile Culture, Turku, Finland, 24.9.2009
• “A new method of creating a cultural strategy: KULMA – Culture as a resource in the countryside”, plenum lecture, Fondation Marcel Hicter, European Diploma in Cultural Project Managament 2008/2009, Turku/Saari Resedence, Mietoinen,Finland, 11.5.2008
• “Activating rural communities as cultural agents”, plenum lecture, Euracademy Association, 6th Summer Academy, Culture and Sustainable Rural Development, Chania, Crete, 20.8.2007
  

Conference presentations in workshops

• “Artistic activity as a source for youth empowerment, integrating good practice to societal planning” (Katriina Siivonen & Sirkku Kotilainen), 9th European Sociological Association Conference, Lisboa, Portugal, 2-5 September 2009
• “Creativity and well-being as individual and collective phenomena”, chair of the Working Group “Human individuals as cornerstones of culture”, The 31st Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference, Helsinki, 18-22 August 2009
• “What should sustain in culture?”, co-chair of the Working Group “What is Culturally Sustainable Development?” with PhD Katriina Soini, XXII Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology, Vaasa, 17-20 August 2009
• “Local culture as resource in regional development in Southwest Finland Archipelago”, SIEF Working Group on cultural Heritage and Property, Conference on Cultural Heritage and Property, Tartu, Estonia, 4 August 2009
• “Searching for innovativeness and empowerment, futures workshops as a qualitative research methodology”, chair of the Working Group “Globalisation of Consumption”, 11th International Conference of Finland Futures Research Centre and Finland Futures Academy, Future of the Consumer Society, Tampere, 28-29 May 2009

Academic lectures in English

• “Participatory Methods: Futures Workshop”, lecture and workshop, University of Turku, Finland Futures Academy, Futures Research Methods, Intensive Days in Tampere, Finland, 30.3.2009, 6.4.2010
• ”The cultural dimension of sustainability”, University of Turku, The Master’s Programme of Futures Studies, Futu 2a Sustainalble Futures, Turku, 17.1.2008, 20.1.2009, 14.1.2010
• “An archipelago of identities”, University of Turku, Baltic Sea Regions Studies -program, Mare Balticum -lectures, Turku, Finland, 17.10.2008
  

Some of the publications

• Siivonen, Katriina (2009), Culture as Anthroposemiosis. In Eero Tarasti & Paul Forsell & Richard Littlefield (ed. by), Communication: Understanding/Misunderstanding. Proceedings of the 9th Congress of the IASS/AIS, Helsinki/Imatra: 11-17 June, 2007. Vol. 3. Acta Semiotica Fennica XXXIV. Imatra: International Semiotics Institute & Helsinki: Semiotic Society of Finland.
  
• Siivonen, Katriina (2008), Culture is basically creative. In Marjo Mäenpää & Taina Rajanti (Eds.), Creative Futures Conference Proceedings. 10. –11. October in Pori, Finland. Taideteollisen korkeakoulun julkaisu C 6. Pori: University of Art and Design, Pori School of Art and Media.
• Siivonen, Katriina (2008), Saaristoidentiteetit merkkien virtoina. Varsinaissuomalainen arki ja aluekehitystyö globalisaation murroksessa. (Archipelago Identities as Streams of Signs. Everyday life and local development in Southwest Finland as a part of global transition, English summary.) Kansatieteellinen Arkisto 51. (Ethnological Archive 51.) Dissertation. Suomen Muinaismuistoyhdistys (The Finnish Antiquarian Society), Helsinki.
• Siivonen, Katriina (2007) The Right to Stand Outside of Cultural Heritage. A Condition for Sustainable Cultural Development. In Ethnologia Fennica Vol 34/2007.
• Siivonen, Katriina (2005) Skärgårdsidentiteter - Vardagsliv och lokalt utvecklingsarbete i Sydvästra Finlands skärgård. – Maritimhistorisk konferens Bottnisk kontakt XII. Forum Marinum i Åbo 6-8 februari 2004. Huvudtema: Människan och havet. Skärgårdskultur, miljö, allmogeseglation och andra näringar. Red. Kasper Westerlund. Meddelanden från Sjöhistoriska institutet vid Åbo Akademi Nr. 27, p. 161-170. Sjöhistoriska institutet vid Åbo Akademi, Åbo.
• Siivonen, Katriina (2003) An Archipelago of Identities. Producing locality in the Southwest Finland Archipelago. – Making and Breaking of Borders. Ethnological Interpretations, Presentations, Representations. Toim. Teppo Korhonen, Helena Ruotsala & Eeva Uusitalo. Studia Fennica Ethnologica 7, p. 147-159. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Helsinki.
• Siivonen, Katriina & Grönholm, Björn (2002) Framtidsscenarier för Åboland. Projektets slutrapport. Tutu-publikationer 9/2002. Framtidsforskningsinstitutet vid Åbo handelshögskola och Skärgårdsinstitutet vid Åbo Akademi, Åbo.
• Siivonen, Katriina (2002) Does European Union leave room for local identities? Locality as a cultural semiotic process. – Ethnologia Scandinavica vol 32/2002, p. 63-77. Folklivsarkivet, Lund.
• Siivonen, Katriina (2002) La culture – source de profit pour le tourisme ou vie des gens du pays? – Managers who think. Published 4.2.2002.