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Marjaana
Puurtinen

Academy Research Fellow, Department of Teacher Education (Turku)
PhD, Title of Docent

Contact

+358 29 450 3636
+358 50 339 4928
Assistentinkatu 5
20500
Turku

Links

Turku Eye-tracking Laboratories
Google Scholar Citations
ORCID

Areas of expertise

Expertise development
Visual expertise
Epistemic Cognition
Music
History
Eye tracking

Biography

Formerly Penttinen.

Education and degrees

  • 2019: Adjunct Professor (title of docent), Faculty of Education, University of Oulu
  • 2016: Master of Arts (European and World History), University of Turku
  • 2013: PhD (Education), University of Turku
  • 2006: Master of Arts (Education), University of Turku

Recent academic positions

  • 2021-2026: Academy Research Fellow, Dept. of Teacher Education, University of Turku
  • 2019- (on leave 2021-2026) University Lecturer, Dept. of Teacher Education. Including research duties at the Functional Foods Forum, Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku
  • 2017-2018: Senior Researcher, Dept. of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku (part-time)
  • 2018: Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Teacher Education, University of Turku. (part-time)
  • 2015-2017: Postdoctoral Researcher, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku.

Selected administrative duties

  • Coordinator, Turku Eye-tracking Laborotories
  • Board member, University of Turku Graduate School
  • Vice-director, Doctoral Programme on Learning, Teaching and Learning Environments
  • Board member, Executive Board of Research development, Faculty of Education

Other skills​​​​​​​

  • Folk musician, arranger, composer and music pedagogue.​​​​​​​

Teaching

  • Primary supervisor for one completed PhD thesis and primary/secondary/third supervisor for five PhD Researchers at the Faculty of Education, Univ. of Turku.
  • Supervisor for over 70 MA or BA theses at the Dept. of Teacher Education, Univ. of Turku.
  • Extensive experience in, e.g., teaching research methods and reporting in educational sciences.

Research

Funded research projects

  • PI/Academy Research Fellow, "Eye on history: How experts and novices deal with visual representations of the past". Research Council of Finland, 2021-2026.
  • Researcher at the Functional Foods Forum, "Senses and Food" team. Research Council of Finland (funding for research profiling at Finnish universities), 2019-2021.
  • Consortium coordinator and post-doctoral researcher, "Reading music: Eye movements and the development of expertise". Prof. Erkki Huovinen (PI), University of Jyväskylä and Royal College of Music in Stockholm & Prof. Hans Gruber (PI), University of Regensburg and University of Turku. Research Council of Finland, 2014-2018.
  • PI/Post-doctoral Researcher, "Looking at music: Eye movements and the development of music-reading skill". Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, 2015-2017.
  • Co-applicant and post-doctoral researcher, "Visual literacy as part of expertise in history". Prof. Arja Virta (PI), Marjaana Puurtinen and Markus Nivala. Finnish Cultural Foundation, announced in 2013.
  • PhD candidate, The Finnish Doctoral Programme in Education and Learning (funding for 4,5 years), announced in 2006.

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