Armi Mustosmäki ([email protected])
Currently I am working as academy research fellow in my project “Smart women love money- Reconfigurations of femininity and motherhood in financialised welfare state” funded by the Finnish research council (2023-2027). This project focuses on the proliferation of financial self-help in social media that invites women to save and invest to the financial markets to fight economic gender inequality. The interest is to study how ideas and ideals on femininity, motherhood and intimate relations that are reconstructed and mediated through social media and how are these ideals received, lived, negotiated or resisted in lives of (non)investing women. The project is inspired by economic sociology, feminist media and cultural studies and critical social policy with the aim of understanding welfare state change.
Prior to joining UeF, I worked at the University of Jyväskylä in various research and teaching positions (Senior lecturer in Social and public policy, Lecturer in qualitative methods). My postdoctoral project “Complaining mothers: Affect, moral and politics of medicalisation” (2019-2023) was funded by Kone foundation and explored difficult and forbidden emotions of mothers, especially regretting motherhood as well as public response to ‘maternal complaint’ with tools provided by affect studies.
I have also participated in several projects and studied e.g. Nordic corporatism and gender equality policies, changing organisation of work in public and private sector organisations, lean management, and reconciliation of work and family. My PhD dissertation “How bright are the Nordic lights?” (2017) examined the question on the existence and persistence of the Nordic working life model by studying job quality trends in Nordic countries in a comparative perspective, drawing from institutional and labour process theories and large survey datasets. More information on publications and projects related to work life change you can find on my personal webpage.
Elisa Tiilikainen ([email protected])
I am a social scientist interested in issues related to ageing and later life. Currently I work as an Associate Professor in Social Work at the Department of Social Sciences. My work includes work with research projects and teaching around questions related to social gerontology and gerontological social work. At the moment I am leading a four-year research project on old-age social inclusion in home care (SOLDEX) and a four-year research project on older men’s driving cessation (DRIVEX). In addition I am leading a workpackage on digital health technologies and services of older adults (75+) as part of a Nordic collaboration project (HAIDI). My research team consists of post doctoral and doctoral researcher and I am involved in several multidisciplinary programs and networks.
In my PhD I examined loneliness from a life course perspective identifying different pathways behind loneliness in later life and exploring how loneliness changes in time. I have also examined experiences of loneliness from the perspective of people living with aphasia and older migrant women. My studies have highlighted the multidimensional and dynamic nature of loneliness and its individual meanings in relation to different life events and transitions. In my studies I have used mostly qualitative methodologies, but I’m interested in finding ways to combine different methods, especially from longitudinal perspectives.
Infertility among married women in rural Ghana: cultural contexts and individuals’ lived experiences
Kati Launis ([email protected])
I’m a specialist of digital literary studies and 19th century literary history, especially women writers. Since my doctoral thesis on the first female novelist in Finland (2005) I have published widely on these topics and worked in several multidisciplinary projects. PI in the project Digital History for Literature in Finland (2022-26, SA).
Maarit Sireni ([email protected])
Main research interests: 1. Gender and Space: feminist rural studies, farm women, entrepreneurship, motherhood and childcare in the countryside; 2. Imagined and Lived Rural Space: changing rural communities, sense of place, everyday life and mobility patterns in rural areas, everyday security in rural areas; 3. Cultural Geographies of Home: domestic material cultures of Karelian people; 4. Land Use Planning in the Countryside: sparsity, living in low density areas; 5. Geographies of Food: local food and second home owners; 6. Rural Services: integration of services.
Courses: Rural Geography, 5116228, 5 cr (lectures in Finnish).
Maker & STEM Education: Equal access to progressive pedagogies to boost STEM development for all women
Marja Sorvari ([email protected])
Marja Sorvari is Professor of Russian Literature and Culture, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus. She specializes in post-Soviet Russian literature from the perspectives of gender, cultural memory and multilingualism. Her Ph.D. dissertation examined Russian women’s autobiographical texts of the 1990s. Her current research focuses on multi- and translingual literature, displacement and (post)memory, and the reception of Russian literature in Finland. She has published two monographs, many peer-reviewed articles and co-edited several collections of articles.
Meysam Haddadi Barzoki ([email protected])
Dr Barzoki currently foucese on the sexual objectification among Muslim immigrant women in Europe as a vulnerable group who suffer from serious psychological trauma raises from difficult time of immigration and resettlement in Europe.
Miia Kuha ([email protected])
I work at the School of Theology in the research project “Lutheran Masculinities 1517-1937”. My research focuses on Finland and the wider context of the Swedish realm in the 17th and 18th centuries. In the project, I examine norms and ideals of masculinity in early modern clerical families. In my previous research project, I have examined the roles and agency of clergymen’s wives and widows within their families and communities, and in the current project I’m turning my attention to parish pastors in the roles of husband and father.
I hold the title of docent at the University of Jyväskylä. In 2016, I defended my dissertation on the celebration of holy days in 17th-century Eastern Finnish parish communities. In the context of the early modern period, I have also studied clerical careers and the relationship between clergy and local communities, Eastern Finnish extended families, lived religion among the peasantry and the agency of clergymen’s widows. I have also studied the history of Finnish and Swedish history writing focusing on the early modern period in the 19th and 20th centuries. The sources I use for my research are mainly funeral sermons, lower court records, parish visitation records and petition letters as well as other official correspondence.
In my research project “Marriage, gender and emotions in women’s funeral sermons in early modern Finland (1615-1735)”, funded by Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland (SLS), I analyse representations of marital relationships and the construction of gender in printed funeral biographies in 17th- and early 18th-century Finland.