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Oili-Helena Ylijoki

Senior Researcher
Tampere University
oili-helena.ylijoki [at] tuni.fi (oili-helena[dot]ylijoki[at]tuni[dot]fi)
phone number+358503186244

About me

I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Knowledge, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (TaSTI) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, and an Adjunct Professor of social pscychology at Tampere University. I teach in the field of science and technology studies.

Research topics

Academic identities and careers, disciplinary cultures, temporal acceleration, women and science

Research unit

TaSTI

Research fields

Science studies, higher education studies, time studies, social psychology

Funding

Nordforsk, Kone Foundation, Government’s analysis, assessment and research activities

Selected publications

Ylijoki, O.-H. (2019) Happy in academia: the perspective of the academic elite. In Cannizzo, F. & Osbaldiston, n. (eds.) The Social Structures of Global Academia. London: Routledge.

Ylijoki, O.-H. & Henriksson, L. (2018) Tribal, proletarian and entrepreneurial career stories: junior academics as a case in point. Studies in Higher Education 42, 7, 1292-1308.

Ylijoki, O.-H. (2016) Projectification and conflicting temporalities in academic knowledge production. Theory of Science 38, 1, 7-26.

Ylijoki, O.-H. (2015) Conquered by project time? Conflicting temporalities in university research. In Gibbs, P., Ylijoki, O.-H., Guzmán-Valenzuela, C. & Barnett, R. (eds.) Universities in the Flux of Time. An exploration of time and temporality in university life. London: Routledge.