Johanna Vilppola

•       Lecturer of Mental Health and Substance abuse nursing in the Social Services and Health Care unit.

•       Researcher on crisis work, e.g. competence, impacts and effectiveness. Special areas of interest, research and project expertise include crisis situations (emergency conditions, mental crisis resilience, etc.) and traumas (short-term and long-term traumas, traumainformed care), safety and security, mental health and substance abuse nursing, well-being at work, etc.

Contact info:

Johanna Vilppola, Ph.D. (Education)

Senior lecture

Social Service and Health Care Unit

Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK)

email: johanna.vilppola [at] tuni.fi

phone: +358504389456

Job description

•        One of the RDI -team leaders in the Social Services and Health Care unit.

•       Master's Thesis Supervision: Master's Degree Program in Clinical Expertise (Mental Health nursing) and in the Master's Degree Program in Leadership and Development.

•       Tutor teacher and responsibility teacher in Master's Degree Program: Clinical Expertise (Mental Health nursing)

•       Lecturer of Psychology and Mental health and Substance abuse nursing in bilingual (Finnish and English) nursing education.

•       Specialist in projects: Traumainformed Care (ESR+ 10/2024- 09/2026), Vanuva- project (ESR+, 2021-2023), Developing bilingual teaching/studing Tokasa (Ministry of Education and Culture

Core competences

•       PhD, Psychiatric Nurse, Specialization in Crisis and Emergency Conditions

•       Crisis and Trauma Specialist

Mental and Social Security at Different Levels (individual, communities, society, before-, during- and after crisis situations) and in various crises, sudden Crises (suicides, violent situations, various accidents, etc.), prolonged crises, major accidents, emergency conditions.

•       Post Doc - Study: Experiences of professionals in the impact, effectiveness and competence of sudden crisis work in Finland, implementation period 01/2026-05/2027.