Minna Tanskanen

As Vice Dean responsible for higher education in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, I work in close cooperation with the Vice Deans of other faculties and the Rector responsible for higher education, lead the faculty’s Education Development Committee, and am responsible for many issues related to student selection, curriculum work, teaching quality development and monitoring of study progress. My university-level task is to lead UEF’s sustainability and responsibility activities and act, among other things, as the chair of UEF’s sustainability and responsibility steering group.

My basic position is a senior university lecturer in cultural geography and my special area of ​​responsibility is the development of subject teacher training, which is why I have also collaborated extensively with other faculties. Through Erasmus projects, I have been involved in international education development work for over 20 years.

My research keywords are geography, landscape geography, social environmental research, didactic geography and the development of higher education. In recent years, I have participated in the interdisciplinary research of forest owners’ forest discourses. I also supervise doctoral dissertations, especially in themes of environmental education and landscape geography.