Research project: FORK- Fraud-Free Food and Regulatory Know-How, funded by the Academy of Finland and UEF 2019-2023
How can consumers be sure that they eat what they think they eat? The FORK project responds to the trends of power consumerism, personalized nutrition services and digitalization of food commerce by developing better regulation for a modified food chain.
International partner: Fighting Food Frauds regarding Foods with Intentionally Added Pharmaceutical Products, funded by the Chinese State Administration for Market Regulation, 2019-2022. The FFF-project aims to identify patterns of food fraud and seek solutions by examining experiences of other jurisdictions. Economically motivated food adulteration adding pharmaceuticals in foods as Chinese traditional medicine is a growing issue in food manufacturing largely contributing to food safety problems in China.
Book project: K Lindroos, L Montagnani and K Klafkowska Wasniowska: Freedom and Responsibility of Online Platforms, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019-2021.European values include upholding free movement in the single market, while ensuring responsibility and accountability in the digital single market. All regulators face the same dilemma: how to strike a balance between these values structuring the role of platforms in preserving fundamental values.
Book project: K Lindroos, L Tammenlehto: Moderni immateriaalioikeus ja alustatalouden innovaatiot, Talentum Publishing 2019-2020.
My work consists of teaching and researching in the School of Theology. In my doctoral dissertation (2013), I investigated the Latinization of the Eastern Rite liturgy in the 17th-18th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the context of the Feast of the Holy Eucharist (Corpus Christi). My research interests today include, for example, the development of Finnish Orthodox translating, publishing, and music activities in the 19th-20th centuries, and the meaning of music in experiencing worship and converting to Orthodoxy. I am in the editorial board of three academic journals: Ortodoksia, The Journal of the International Society for Orthodox Church Music, and Teologia.fi.
My lectures focus on different aspects of Eastern Rite church music. I teach students of church music and theology from basic to advanced level. I also supervise master’s theses and doctoral dissertations (within SCE doctoral programme) on Orthodox church music.
I am the vice-chairperson of the International Society for Orthodox Church Music. I am also a board member and treasurer of the Finnish Society for Byzantine Music. From the spring of 2021, I have also been a board member of Filantropia (Orthodox Church Aid and Mission).
I work with theses and e-publications at the library. My work is to use UEF CRIS -research database and participate to other research support tasks related for e-publishing.
Virpi Kaukio is a researcher in environmental aesthetics, who in her PhD thesis (UEF 2013) examined the complex relationship between the environmental experiences offered by art and fiction and the environments experienced physically on site. More recently, Kaukio has been studying intangible cultural heritage and the changes in the use of mires and the cultural relationship with nature (Mire Trend research project, UEF, Kone Foundation, 2020-2023). Kaukio became interested in museums as a platform for experiential publishing during her work experience (Riihisaari – Savonlinna Museum 2019) and while studying museology (Jyväskylä Open University 2023), when she drafted sketches on the possibilities of a multisensory museum.
This project of museum as a platform for experiential publishing of research explores ways to make visible information or research processes that are challenging or impossible to publish through traditional scientific publishing channels. The study examines experiential or so-called tacit knowledge, which is difficult to verbalize and conceptualize, from the perspective of aesthetics and sensory research.
The central idea behind publishing differently is to make information more equally accessible and pluralistic. For the museum, new ways provide a means to contribute to the social debate. For researchers, the museum can offer new channels for publishing research. Because a museum operates spatially and three-dimensionally, activating all the senses, its means of presentation are more responsive to individual and community experience and live cultural heritage as a process.
The project is carried out by Virpi Kaukio at the University of Eastern Finland and funded by the Kone Foundation 2024-2025. The research will be conducted through observation and interviews with researchers, artists, museum professionals and other people involved in experimental activities in museums. The materials will be analyzed using environmental aesthetics, ethnographic and neo-materialist research methods, and art and cultural studies perspectives. In addition to scientific articles, the project will produce practical guidelines for those planning to publish experimental research in a museum.
