Di Wu (di.wu@uef.fi)
My research interests mainly focus on the influence of extreme weather events on agricultural and forestry productions based on big data and modeling. My current work is the prediction of the fire weather index in Finland and the evaluation of frost risk of Finland boreal forests under a changing climate.
Economic evaluation of cultural Health and Wellbeing -project
Evaluation of Government Support Scheme for Grocery Shops
Irina Lavikainen (irina.lavikainen@uef.fi)
– Receipt, processing and evaluation of further utilization of invention disclosures
– Proof of Concept funding application and project implementation support services
– Draft funding application support services
– Spark Finland program support services
– Technology transfer and advocacy related to the commercialization of research results
– Administration related to university patent applications and other industrial property rights
– General support and advice related to innovation activities and research impact planning
Jin Kang (jingoo.kang@uef.fi)
Kang’s research interests currently span four areas: 1. the secondary large-scale data analysis to inform educational policy and practice in science education, 2. gender differences in science interest and career aspiration, 3. science teacher motivation, and 4. development and evaluation of science and environmental education programs.
Katja Lötjönen (katja.lotjonen@uef.fi)
I work as a researcher in the research project Intergroup relations and local encounters – Immigrant and Finnish young people’s perceptions of each other, their lives and future in multicultural Savo. In addition, I am working on my doctoral dissertation on young people’s lay perceptions related to social classes and their agency. I also teach part-time in the subject of social psychology.
My research interests are related to themes of inequality and young people, viewed from the young people’s own point of view, in the way how they themselves perceive society and what kind of connection these lay perceptions have on how they perceive their opportunities and alternatives in their own lives. Methodologically, I am interested in mixed method research and especially its integrative approach.
Pedagogically, I am interested in developing multi-modal teaching, especially in an online environment, in the way that it supports meaningful learning for students from different backgrounds. Also developing more diverse evaluation methods in online teaching is one of my core interests.
Leena Forma (leena.forma@uef.fi)
I have a title of docent in health economics, especially the economics of ageing. I am interested in the use, costs and financing of health and social services among older people. I have studied these mainly using register data, but considering also hidden costs and all the different funding bodies also requires a multi-method approach. My more recent research interests include factors related to the retirement of older workers, as well as the economic evaluation of nutrition interventions. I belong to the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare).
I coordinate the preparation of the new bachelor’s program in economics. The program will be implemented in cooperation between several departments and will start in autumn 2025. I supervise master’s theses and doctoral dissertations in the field of health economics.
Low-threshold psychiatric nurse services in North-Savo schools: Mixed methods evaluation of intervention
Martin Ubani (martin.ubani@uef.fi)
Martin Ubani (PhD, M.Theol) is a professor of religious education at the University of Eastern Finland. His research interest concern religious education in public education, religion and multiculturalism and education, teacher education and spiritual education. Lately he has focused on religion and multiculturalism in public education and teacher education. He has published several books, chapters and articles. One of his publication is “Contextualising dialogue, secularisation and pluralism. Religion in Finnish public education” (Eds. Ubani, Rissanen & Poulter: Waxmann, 2019).
Ubani has served in several positions in Academic societies and for Finnish educational policy. He serves currently as a member in the Evaluation Council (2022-2026) of the Finnish Education and Evaluation Centre, in the Higher Education Evaluation Committee (2022-2026) and in the development group of religious and worldviews education issued by the Finnish Agency of Education. He was also part of the group devicing the portion for religious education in the core curriculum for basic education (2014). From 2023 Martin Ubani will serve as the co-chief editor of “Nordidactica. Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education.”
Professor Ubani has been since 2016 a visiting researcher at the Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel.