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Samuli Ranta (samuli.ranta@uef.fi)

Early childhood education teacher training. The starting point of research interests is the child’s learning and learning experiences. As a researcher (2021-2024), the research especially about the teacher’s competence and various perceptions combined with it.

Especially mixed methods and phenomenographic research.

Sanna Mustasaari (sanna.mustasaari@uef.fi)

LL.D Sanna Mustasaari is Senior Researcher at the Center of Law and Welfare, UEF Law School. Her on-going research project Children Abroad: A Relational Analysis of Finnish Child Protection and Welfare in Transnational Contexts [CARELA], Academy of Finland 2020-2024) adopts an interdisciplinary approach to study children’s rights to protection in various transnational settings. She is the PI of the NOS-HS exploratory workshop series Transnational Childhoods, Transnational Rights (https://uefconnect.uef.fi/en/group/nos-hs-workshop-series-transnational-childhoods-transnational-rights-nordic-responses-to-global-challenges-in-the-field-of-child-protection/ ) and leads a subproject in a Consortium that focuses on cross-border child protection (SUOJATIE, 2022-2024).

Mustasaari’s PhD “Rethinking recognition: Transnational families and belonging in law” (2017) studied the diverse forms of the legality and recognition of family relationships in different normative systems. Her main research interests include religion and family law, human rights law, private international law, migration law, children’s rights, trans rights, relational legal theory, feminist legal theory, rights in context, and migration and transnationalism studies.

 

Sanni Kahila (sanni.k.kahila@uef.fi)

I am a doctoral researcher primarily focusing my research on teachers’ professional development and teamwork in early childhood education, especially in the pre-service and induction phases.

Siiri Ahtola (siiri.ahtola@uef.fi)

I teach music education for future classroom teachers, early childhood education teachers and exchange students. I am also a coordinator for UEF staff exchange and finalizing my doctoral thesis about productive music education.

Siiri-Liisi Kraav (siiri-liisi.kraav@uef.fi)

My research focuses on the interactions between psychological factors, such as loneliness or adverse childhood experiences and health and well-being in later life. I am using both general population and patient samples with different kinds of data.

Sirpa Lappalainen (sirpa.lappalainen@uef.fi)

I work as an associate professor of sociology. My expertise is in sociology of education and qualitative methodology, especially in ethnographic approach. My research interests are mainly in social and cultural processes of inclusions and exclusions. I have conducted research in various educational contexts from early childhood education to vocational upper secondary education and special education. I am one of the founding members of Nordforsk funded Nordic Centre of Excellence Justice through education in Nordic countries 2014 – 2018 (university of Helsinki). In addition to that, I am an adjunct professor of social research in education and a research fellow at the research group Social Studies in Urban Education (SURE) at University of Helsinki. Currently, I act as a network convener in Nordic Education Research Association (NERA) network Justice through Education.

Susanna Iivonen (susanna.iivonen@uef.fi)

Susanna Iivonen is a University Lecturer (Physical Education) in School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education.

Teaching: Physical education in early childhood education teacher education, supervision of theses.

Research areas: Physical education pedagogy in early childhood education, children’s motor skills, physical activity and outdoor play, physical education in early childhood education teacher education.

Suvianna Hakalehto (suvianna.hakalehto@uef.fi)

Suvianna Hakalehto is professor of law teaching tort law, child law and education law. The topic of her PhD thesis from the University of Helsinki (2008) was tort liability of public authorities. Since 2010 the main focus of Suvianna’s research has been children’s rights. Her post doctoral study (2012) was on pupils’ rights at school.

Suvianna is interested in the special legal status of a minor in various context (family, school, health care etc) and the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Finland. Her recent publications are from the field of education law (school discipline, inclusion, supervision of education providers). She is now writing a book on children’s rights in early childhood education and care.

Suvianna has been training lawyers as well as professionals on several fields on tort law and children’s rights more than twenty years. She was one of the founders of Child Law Lawyers and was a chair of the association 2013-2020.