Prof. Dr. Virginija Poškutė
Prof. dr. Virginija Poškutė (PhD) is an economist and social policy analyst. Currently she is a visiting scholar at Berkeley University, California. Virginija was Fulbright researcher at Darden Graduate School, University of Virginia (USA), periodically increases her academic qualifications at leading educational institutions, such as Harvard Business School (USA), London School of Economics (UK), Lorange Institute of Business Zurich (Switzerland) and Fudan University (China) among others. She studied at several educational institutions: Vilnius University (Lithuania), Roskilde University (Denmark), University of Bath (UK) and Tilburg University (The Netherlands). Virginija has extensive international job experience (UNDP/Lithuania; International Master’s Programme “European Social Policy Analysis” by CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg and Leuven University, Belgium; worked in various projects for OECD, the World Bank, UN, UNDP, UNICEF, European Commission as well as national institutions (Ministry of Social Security and Labour, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Economics, various NGOs) on economic and social issues.
Research areas
- Social policy
- Welfare economics
- Competitiveness
- Public and private sector collaboration
- Business ethics and corporate social responsibility
Teaching areas
- Social Policy
- Welfare Economics
- Competitiveness
- Public and Private Sector Collaboration
- Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
Projects
- RCL Researchers Groups Projects: Stakeholder Engagement and Sustainable Long‐term Care of Elder Persons (2017-2019; 99 991 Eur), Investigator.
- EU H2020 programme (H2020-SC5-2018-2): SPRINT – Social Protection Innovative Investment in Long-Term Care (2015-2018; 1 910 536 Eur, 81 625 Eur for ISM), Principal Investigator. Partners: Hochschue Fulda-University of Applied Sciences (DE), University of Piraeus Research Center (EL), Signosis SPRL (BE), Roskilde Universitet (DK), Instytut Pracy i Spraw Socjalnych (PL), Social Value Network UK (UK), Universidade do Porto (PT), Gruppo Cooperativa CGM (IT), Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem (HU), Terveyden Ja Hyvinvoinnin Laitos (FI).
Courses
Publications
Poškutė, V. (2017). Are concepts of social investment and long-term care compatible? perceptions of long-term care stakeholders in Lithuania. In 3rd Transforming Care Conference: Innovation and sustainability, June 26-28. Milan, Italy.
Poškutė, V. (2017). Long term-care challenges and perspectives. In B. Greve (Ed.), Long-term care for the elderly in Europe: development and prospects (social welfare around the world) (pp. 23-37). Routledge.
Poškutė, V. (2017). Social investment as solution to challenges of long-term care for elderly in aging societies? In Aging & society: seventh Interdisciplinary conference social inequalities, exclusion, and age-discrimination, 3-4 November (p. 50). University of California at Berkeley: Common ground research networks
Poškutė, V. (2017). The SPRINT study: Exploring success factors in long-term care. Sprint Social protection innovative investment in long-term care, November 9, 2017.
Poškutė, V. (2018). Are the concepts of ‘social investment’ and ‘long-term care for the elderly’ compatible? Perceptions of long-term care stakeholders in Lithuania. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 34(2), 151-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2018.1479652
Poškutė, V. (2018). Investment in long-term care – stakeholder perspectives. In SPRINT 2018, Social Investment in Affordable and Quality Long-Term Care (pp. 1-1). Brussels, European Parliament: SPRINT Project
Poškutė, V. (2019). Challenges of long-term care of the elderly in XXI century: policy changes required. In The 4th edition of the International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP4) (pp. 1-1). Montreal: International Public Policy Association
Poškutė, V., & Greve, B. (2017). Long-term care in Denmark and Lithuania – A most dissimilar case. Social policy & administration, 51(4), 659-675. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12318
Poškutė, V., Gudaitis, T., Medaiskis, T., & Mečkovski, J. (2021). Public policies transforming retirement pensions in Central and Eastern Europe. In 5th International Conference on Public Policy, Barcelona, 05-09, July (pp. 1-1). International Public Policy Association
Poškutė, V., Gudaitis, T., Medaiskis, T., & Mečkovski, J. (2022). Search for sustainable pension system and state support for funded pensions in CEE countries. Business: Theory and Practice, 23(2), 313–322. https://doi.org/10.3846/btp.2022.16250
Poškutė, V., Kazlauskaitė, R., & Matonytė, I. (2021). Stakeholder collaboration in long-term care of older people in Lithuania. Health and Social Care in the Community, 30(1), 193-202. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13389
Poškutė, V., Kazlauskaitė, R., Liubertė, I., & Matonytė, I. (2021). Improvement of long-term care for older people via inter-sectoral and inter-organizational collaboration. In 5th International Conference on Public Policy, Barcelona, 05-09, July (pp. 1-1). International Public Policy Association
Poškutė, V., Kazlauskaitė, R., Matonytė, I., & Ramonienė, L. (2018). Stakeholder engagement and collaboration in long-term care of older persons in Lithuania: Key stakeholders perceptions of synergy possibilities and barriers. In ILPN Conference 2018: Book of abstracts (pp. 127-128). Viena: The International Long-term care Policy Network
Poškutė, V., Kazlauskaitė, R., Matonytė, I., & Ramonienė, L. (2019). Caring is sharing: stakeholder collaboration in long-term care of older persons in Lithuania. In 4th edition of the International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP4), June 26-28. Montreal, Canada.
Kazlauskaitė, R., Poškutė, V., Matonytė, I., & Ramonienė, L. (2019). NGOs and stakeholder cooperation in LTC organising and delivery: An equal player or a stranger? In Transforming Care Conference, Changing priorities: the making of care policy and practices: books of abstracts (p. 89). Copenhagen, Denmark
Lopes, A., & Poškutė, V. (2018). Social investment in LTC – findings from the sprint project. In XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology: Power, Violence and Justice: Reflections, Responses and Responsibilities (p. 584). Toronto: International sociological association
Lopes, A., & Poškutė, V. (2022). Long-term care in aging societies. In B. Greve (Ed.), De Gruyter Handbook of Contemporary Welfare States (pp. 233-254). De Gruyter.
Lopes, A., Poškutė, V., Greve, B., Ismolinnosmaa, I., & Rutkowska, Z. (2017). Social investment in long-term care: stakeholders’ views. In 13th conference of the European sociological association, (un)making Europe: capitalism, solidarities, subjectivities, Athens 08.29- 09.01 (pp. 124-124). Athens: Europian sociological association
Matonytė, I., Kazlauskaitė, R., & Poškutė, V. (2019). Ilgalaikė senyvo amžiaus asmenų globa Lietuvoje: visuomenės nuostatos ir paslaugų teikėjų požiūriai. Socialinė teorija, empirija, politika ir praktika, 18, 74-95. https://doi.org/10.15388/STEPP.2019.5
Mečkovski, J., Gudaitis, T., Medaiskis, T., & Poškutė, V. (2022). State participation in funded pension systems in selected central and eastern European countries. Eastern European Economics, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00128775.2022.2157286
Poškutė, V., Kazlauskaitė, R., Matonytė, I., & Ramonienė, L. (2019). Improving long-term care for the elderly: A multi-level framework for inter-sectoral and organisational collaboration. In Aging & Social Change: Ninth Interdisciplinary Conference (pp. 1-1). Champaign: Common Ground Research Networks
Poškutė, V., Kazlauskaitė, R., Matonytė, I., & Ramonienė, L. (2019). Reducing social exclusion by meeting long-term care needs for the elderly: enhancement of stakeholder collaboration and engagement. In Social Citizenship, Migration and Conflict: Equality and opportunity in European welfare states (pp. 38-38). University of Sweden
Doyle, E., & Poškutė, V. (2024). Stakeholder management: International Encyclopedia of Business Management. Amsterdam: Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-0-443-13701-3.00228-0
Poškutė, V., & Kazlauskaitė, R. (2024). Harmonizing work and life: Unravelling national and organizational patternsin Nordic and Baltic regions. 22nd ESPAnet Annual Conference, August 28 – 30, 1-20
Poškutė, V. (2024). Balancing formal and informal long-term care of older people in changing societies: Case ofLithuania. 7th International conference on evidence-based policy and long-term care, September 12-14, 1-16