Oma esittely
I am a higher education researcher and university instructor at the Faculty of Education and Culture, Tampere University.
I teach university pedagogy courses for university teachers at Tampere University (‘Teaching and Learning in Higher Education’ & ‘Academic supervision and guidance’) and work on a pedagogical development project focusing on developing PhD supervision at Tampere University.
My research interests include a variety of topics in the field of higher education research (higher education studies): teaching and learning, knowledge and curriculum, pedagogical development, academic communities, internationalisation, transnational education, organisational cultures, digitalisation and online education.
I am a team member of two ongoing research projects
- (Un)making Knowledge: Students’ Relationship with Knowledge from Modernity to AI funded by the Kone Foundation (2025-2029)
- Tracing Knowledge: Universities and the Risk of Empty Education funded by the Research Council of Finland (2026-2030)
My PhD research explored teaching and learning cultures in transnational higher education by examining three cases of pedagogical development collaborations between a Finnish university and universities in Palestine, Brazil, and Thailand.
In my research and teaching activities, I work closely with my research group Higher Education in Transition (HET) as well as the Research Centre on Transnationalism and Transformation TRANSIT. Between February and June 2022, I was a visiting researcher at the Educational Research department at Lancaster University, UK.
I graduated from the Erasmus Mundus Master’s in Research and Innovation in Higher Education (MARIHE) programme and obtained a joint degree M.Sc. (Admin) from University of Tampere in Finland and Danube University Krems in Austria. I have been active in multiple professional associations and scholarly societies and worked with non-governmental organisations.
Publications and research activities (link to TUNICRIS research portal)
Luottamustoimet
Currently
- Board member of the Tampere University Association of Researchers and Teachers TATTE (1.1.2021–31.12.2022; 1.1.2025–current)
- Board member of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers in Finland CHERIF (2024–current)
- Coordinator of the Network of early-career higher education researchers in Finland (2023–current)
Previously
- Communication coordinator in the Higher Education in Transition (HET) research group (2020–2025)
- Member of the Faculty Council in the Faculty of Education and Culture (1.8.2021–31.12.2022)
- Member of the Education Steering Group in the Faculty of Education and Culture; representing PhD researchers (20.2.2019–31.7.2020)
Tutkimuskohteet
- Internationalisation in higher education
- Teaching and learning in higher education
- Pedagogical/academic development
- Knowledge and curriculum in higher education
- Communities in academic spaces
- Teaching and learning cultures & Organisational cultures
- Digitalisation and online education
- Poststructuralist discourse analysis
- Qualitative research approaches