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Jari-Pekka Kanniainen

Coordinator, Koulutuksen ja oppimisen palvelut
Education and Learning Services | Student Admission and Study Affairs Services

About me

Master of Administrative Sciences, specialised in university management and governance. Extensive experience from organised student movement in Finland.

Hobbies include music and playing in a band, and playing roleplaying and board games as well as designing games.

Responsibilities

Coordinator, Study Affairs Services

  • Degree programmes: Nursing, Emergency Nurse, Midwife, Public Health Care Nurse

Fields of expertise

I have experience from the following fields and topics:

  • Guidance and support services
  • Customer service
  • Study administration, Study affairs services and student Services
  • University systems, funding models
  • Quality assurance, auditing projects
  • Student unions
  • Tutoring, peer tutoring

Research topics

Universities, university systems, European higher education area

Research fields

Administrative sciences, higher education studies

Research career

ECIU alliance, Tampere University

Selected publications

In 2021, we made a publication with Jussi Kivistö and Elias Pekkola, related to emerging new ideas of governance in higher education. Latest publication came out in 2023, published together with Elias Pekkola, and related to European University Initiative and alliances funded by Erasmus+.