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Maija Kāle

Research Fellow | BICEPS

About:

Maija Kāle is a Research Fellow at BICEPS.  She holds a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Computer Science (now Faculty of Science and Technology) at the University of Latvia, where her research in ‘food computing’ focuses on reducing inefficiencies in the food sector and promoting healthier diets and more resilient food systems globally. Her research is interdisciplinary, integrating cognitive and social sciences, focusing on food systems, climate change, bioeconomy and circular economy, and increasingly on how traditional knowledge or intelligence intersects with new artificial intelligence(s) to shape the future(s) of food systems and other complex systems.

Maija holds an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Freiburg, which she completed through a study programme in India, South Africa and Germany. Maija’s undergraduate degree is in Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, where her thesis on environmental responsibility was published as an SSE Riga Working Paper.

Since 2007, Maija has worked with sustainability and digitalisation issues in various leadership and expert roles. Since 2016, Maija has worked as an Adviser at the Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Latvia and is also a member of Nordic Innovation’s Nordic Task Force for Diversity. In BICEPS, Maija works as a Research Consultant in various projects in Nordregio, the leading Nordic research institute within the broad research fields of regional development, policy and planning, including:

  • ESPON TERRES: https://nordregio.org/research/espon-terres/
  • Growing Food(ies): https://nordregio.org/research/young-nordic-food-producers-growing-foodies/
  • Share the Care: https://nordregio.org/research/share-the-care/

With extensive experience in the public, corporate and civil sectors, Maija is a creative team player with a non-standard academic career dedicated to promoting sustainability and embracing new technologies.

Selected publications:

Share the Care: Strategies to Increase Diversity in Nursing Education: https://nordregio.org/publications/share-the-care-strategies-to-increase-diversity-in-nursing-education/

First aid kit to share the care: Recommendations to Increase Diversity in Nursing Education: https://nordregio.org/publications/first-aid-kit-to-share-the-care/

Contacts:

E-mail: maija[at]biceps.org