Dr Vejune Zemaityte
is a Senior Research Fellow in Cultural Data Analytics in Baltic Film, Media and Arts School (BFM) working as part of the CUDAN Open Lab at Tallinn University, Estonia.
Vejune's research interests include Cultural Data Analytics, Digital Humanities, Cultural Economics, Cultural and Creative Industries, Communication, and Gender Studies. She is particularly interested in gender balance within the global cinema industry.
Vejune uses computational data analysis and visualisation techniques to study creative industries. She works all things data, being proficient in the end-to-end process of quantitative data analysis: data gathering, database creation, data clean-up, database merge, data analysis, and data visualisation. She mainly uses MySQL, Tableau, SPSS, and Photoshop.
Vejune has been a member of the CUDAN project since 2020, the Kinomatics research team since 2015, and the International Screen Industries Consortium (ISICon) research network since 2016. She has also worked as a Research Officer at RMIT University and Research Assistant at Deakin University, the University of Technology Sydney, and Utrecht University. Vejune does research collaboratively, interdisciplinary, and internationally working with colleagues across Estonia, Germany, Australia, and Canada.
Vejune has been teaching graduate and undergraduate students since 2017. She has taught courses across the disciplines of Communication and Media, Creative Industries, Marketing, and Research Methods at several universities in Australia and Estonia.
