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  Recent external lectures
  • Systems analysis and crime, 28th August 2008, PhD summer course Theory and practice in Systems Analysis, organised by Swedish IIASA committee at FORMAS

  • The geography of homicide in São Paulo-Brazil, 15th May 2006, Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

  • Combining individual and area data: Studying Social Life through GIS and Space-Time Budget Techniques, 6th April 2005, ESRC Workshop on research methods, London, UK.

  Teaching

  • Individual lectures on Security in the late modernity, security issues and urban planning, spatial analysis of crime, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, 2006-2008.
  • Individual lectures in the course Spatial statistics in public health and crime research, Mphil in GIS and Remote Sensing, Department of Geography, Cambridge University, UK, 2002 and 2003.
  • Individual lectures in the course Geographical Information Systems and Spatial Planning, from 1997 to 2001. Course organiser 1997-1998.
  • Lecturer responsible for courses in Urban Geography and Geography of the regions at the Department of Geography, Vale do Paraíba University (Universidade do Vale do Paraíba - UNIVAP), São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, from 1990 to 1994.

  Tutor

  Masters thesis (Masters of Science Programme in Spatial Planning – Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Sweden)

  • Hanna Forslund - GIS diffusion in municipalities of Stockholm County, 2000
  • Nijole Lukyte - Do Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in local government matter? The diffusion of GIS in municipalities of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, 2002

  Undergraduate thesis in Geography (Vale do Paraiba University, Sao Paulo, Brazil)

  • Evanírio Pinto - Evaluation of the urban environmental quality in Jacareí city using subjective indicators, 1994
  • Luis Santos, Elio Freitas and Roberto Fonseca - Assessment of the environmental quality of central areas of São José dos Campos city using objective and subjective indicators, 1994

  Opponent

  • Alexander Ståhle - Mer park i tätare stad (Licentiate thesis), Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, 2004.
  • Muna Muhallab Taha - The Potential Role of GIS in the Development and Applications of Urban Indicators: the Case of Housing in Khartoum, Sudan (Masters of Science thesis), Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, 2001.
  • Eva Byman e Magdalena Svensson - Shaping Urban Quality - Guamá, a low-income neighborhood in the Amazonian city of Belém, Brazil, 1997.

  Fellowships and Grants

In Sweden

In Brazil

  Recent workshops and conferences

  • 7th Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology, Bologna, Italy, September, 2007.
  • 6th Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology, Tubingen, Germany, September, 2006.
  • 5th Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology, Cracow, Poland, September, 2005.
  • Workshop: Crime data, victimisation surveys and police responses: experiences from the UK, the US and Brazil - commentator of the section on 'Geographic Information Systems (GIS), crime mapping and victimisation studies in Brazil: a progress report', Centre for Brazilian Studies, Oxford, 28th January 2005.
  • Annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology - paper co-authored and presented by P-O Wikström 'Crime and social life: a space-time approach' and poster presentation of the article "The geography of homicide in São Paulo: Brazil", Nashville, US, November 2004.

   In Newspapers

  • Interviewed by journalist Fatima Araujo, Radio and Televisão de Portugal, Crime and safety in Europe (comments on Sweden and Portugal) for the program 'Avenida Europa', as part of a series of programs in connection with Portugal being capital of EC 2007, August 2007. (Public Portuguese Radio and TV broadcasting)

  • Interviewed by Ernane Guimaraes Neto, Os atos fundadores, Jornal Folha de São Paulo, São Paulo, 18th February 2007. (Brazilian newspaper)

  • Interviewed by Fabio Victor, A indústria do medo, Jornal Folha de São Paulo, São Paulo, 21th May 2006. (Brazilian newspaper)

  • Ceccato, V.  (1997) Skilda världar i samma stad. Dagens Nyheter,  24th November, 1997. (Swedish newspaper)

  • Ceccato, V. (1997) Ett gott liv i Hökarängen och Djursholm. Din Fastighet, 6, 1997. (Swedish newspaper)

  • Ceccato, V.A. (1994) Georelational database applied to urban quality of life, Dialogo, São José dos Campos, SP, April, 1994, p.4. (Brazilian newspaper)

  • Ceccato, V. (1994) What is Rio Claro’s quality of life? Jornal Cidade de Rio Claro, Rio Claro, SP, 5th May, p. 16. (Brazilian newspaper)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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