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Biography
I work as professor of educational sciences at the University of Turku, Department of Education, Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education (CELE). I am head of CELE and also deputy head for research at the Department of Education. I have the title of docent in adult education at the University of Helsinki in 2016.
I defended my doctoral dissertation at the University of Helsinki in 2010 in the field of adult education. In 2010-2011 I worked as a coordinator of doctoral studies and in 2012-2013 as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. In 2014-2022 I worked as a senior researcher at the University of Eastern Finland, School of Educational Sciences and Psychology. And in 2022-2024 I worked as associate professor at the Deaprtment of Education, University of Turku.
Currently I'm the chair of The Finnish Society for Research on Adult Education and a member of ESREA presidium.
Teaching
My interest areas in teaching include adult and higher education and narrative and discursive research methods.
Research
My research interests include adult and higher education, employability, academic entrepreneurship, narrative research and social differences related to age, gender and class. I have been involved in two consortium research projects funded by the Academy of Finland: ‘Academic Entrepreneurship as a Social Process’ (ACE, 2016–2020) and ‘Higher Education Graduates’ Employability and Social Positioning in the Labour Market’ (HighEmploy, 2018–2022). I was the PI and the leader of the HighEmploy project. I have published in the fields of adult and higher education including three books: Huiputuksen moraalijärjestys (Moral order of top-performativity) in 2019; New movements in academic entrepreneurship in 2021 and Rethinking graduate employability in context: Discourse, policy and practice in 2023. Currently, I lead the research project on Lean thinking in knowledge work and employees' experiences of meaningful work (2023-2025) funded by the Finnish Work Environment Fund.