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Responsible supervisors in the Doctoral Programme of Education and Society

You will find the responsible supervisors in the Doctoral Programme of Education and Society on this page. If you are planning on conducting doctoral research, please contact a responsible supervisor in the field most suitable for your topic.

Before contacting a prospective supervisor, please think through the following questions

Why do you want to become a doctoral student and complete a doctoral degree?
In which field do you want to create new knowledge?
What learning needs do you have in that research field?
What learning needs do you have on scientific methods?
Which empirical problem or a question you have in mind for (a) research question(s) and to which scientific field they belong?
From where and how are you intending to acquire your research data?
What is your intended schedule for completing your doctoral dissertation, i.e. when do you think you will have your public defence?
How much of your time are you able to dedicate for your studies and writing your doctoral dissertation?
How does your work community and your situation in life support your doctoral studies?
Explore different ways of funding and plan how to fund your research?

Johanna Annala

Tampere University

Research areas: knowledge, curriculum and curriculum change in higher education; teaching, learning and engagement in higher education; agency and communities of practice in higher education; research-teaching nexus in academic work

University Lecturer

Docent

Faculty of Education and Culture

Tomi Jaakkola

Tampere University

Research areas: generally: technology-supported learning environments, learning and interest (motivation); computer-based simulations and games in teaching and learning; concrete and abstract representations in teaching and learning; digital competence (pupils and teachers); inquiry learning, in particular in STEM education; interventions and teaching experiments

Associate Professor

opettajankoulutus

Faculty of Education and Culture

Kirsi Pauliina Kallio

Tampere University

Research areas: environmental pedagogy, incl.nature, climate and sustainability education; spatial socialization and contextual subject formation; refuge, asylum and international mobility; human rights, specifically children's rights; political subjectivity and political agency; lived citizenship, especially environmental citizenship

Professor

(ympäristökasvatus)

Faculty of Education and Culture

Mervi Kaukko

Tampere University

Research areas: multicultural education, global education; refugee studies; migration research; practice theory; action research

Professor

kasvatustiede, monikulttuurisuuskasvatus

Faculty of Education and Culture

Kristian Kiili

Tampere University

Research areas: game-based learning; game-based assessment; educational game design; playing experience and engagement

Professor

game-based learning

Faculty of Education and Culture

Pirjo Kulju

Tampere University

Research areas: multiliteracies; literacies; education in Finnish language and literature

University Lecturer

äidinkielen ja kirjallisuuden didaktiikka

Faculty of Education and Culture

Elina Kuusisto

Tampere University

Research areas: teacher’s professional ethics, school pedagogy, inclusive school; purpose and purposeful teaching; growth mindset pedagogy; talent development

Senior Research Fellow

Faculty of Education and Culture

Juliene Madureira Ferreira

Tampere University

Research areas: learning and development in childhood; collaborative learning and peer social dynamics/interactions; cross-cultural and developmental studies in educational contexts; inclusive and special education; embodied learning

Assistant Professor

Education

Faculty of Education and Culture

Kaarina Marjanen

Tampere University

Research areas: musical phenomenon as a holistic human resource; ethological theories of music; Pre- and postnatal musical-linguistic and holistic interaction and development; music and professional growth in higher education and curricula; transversal learning in early childhood, childhood and adolescence; music, language and culture as identities through intra- and interpersonal dialogues; positive equilibrium, creativity and emotions; child-oriented, creative research methods; qualitative triangulation methods

University Lecturer

senior lecturer, music education

Faculty of Education and Culture

Zsuzsanna Millei

Tampere University

Areas for supervision: microbes in the daycare, politics of childhood; nationalism, childhood and education; memories of childhood; ethnography, autoethnography, collective biography; creative methods

Professor

Early Childhood Education

Faculty of Education and Culture

Maiju Paananen

Tampere University

Research areas: early childhood education policy and politics; governance of early childhood education; datafication in early childhood education; policies and governance in the everyday live of children and teachers; access to early childhood education

Associate Professor

varhaiskasvatus

Faculty of Education and Culture

Nelli Piattoeva

Tampere University

Research areas: datafication and digitalization of education policy; transnational governance; comparative and international education; citizenship education and political socialization in institutions of formal education; Russian and post-Soviet education systems and education policies; development aid to education; Actor-Network Theory and Science and Technology Studies in education research

Professor

kasvatussosiologia

Faculty of Education and Culture

Inkeri Rissanen

Tampere University

Research areas: culturally responsive education; wordview education; teachers’ intercultural competencies; Islamic religious education and inclusion of muslims in education; growth mindset pedagogy

University Lecturer

monikulttuurisuuskasvatus

Faculty of Education and Culture

Pekka Räihä

Tampere University

Research areas: the development of teacher education; the development of teaching; the cultures of the school and teacher education; commitment to studying / supporting students; the development of the teacher’s professional growth

University Lecturer

kasvatustieteet

Faculty of Education and Culture

Kaisu Rättyä

Tampere University

Research areas: grammar education; literature education; L1 education; conceptual change theory; teaching and assessment methods

University Lecturer

äidinkielen ja kirjallisuuden didaktiikka

Faculty of Education and Culture

Mari Saha

Tampere University

Research areas: early childhood special education; children’s development, learning and wellbeing in early years; early childhood education and care for infants and toddlers; teachers’ stress and occupational wellbeing

Associate Professor

varhaiskasvatus

Faculty of Education and Culture

Annalisa Sannino

Tampere University

Research areas: expansive learning and transformative agency for equity and sustainability; learning pathways out of the margins among vulnerable groups; professional biographies of re-training and re-skilling within the Finnish national strategies to eradicate homelessness or to face climate change; formation of heterogeneous work coalitions and cross-sectoral partnerships to counteract poverty and climate change; cultural-historical activity theory, the method of the Change Laboratory and related formative intervention methodologies

Professor

kasvatustiede

Faculty of Education and Culture

Hanna Toiviainen

Tampere University

Research areas: adult education; transforming work and learning; learning and development in organisations; work-life network collaboration; learning networks and interventions; collective expertise; Developmental Work Research; Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT)

Professor

Adult Education

Faculty of Education and Culture

Mari-Pauliina Vainikainen

Tampere University

Expertise: educational assessment; learning to learn; transversal skills; cognitive development; statistical modelling

Professor

kasvatustiede, alana opetus ja oppiminen

Faculty of Education and Culture