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.
I study the social and political dimensions of resource extraction to inform dialogue, and policy- and decision-making. My interests include the dynamics of raw materials for the energy transition, conflict and peacebuilding in mining regions, and indigenous rights and activism in natural resource extraction contexts. I have more than 20 years’ combined experience in the areas of development, social responsibility, peace and conflict studies, and sustainability, with a strong emphasis on the extractive sector.
At UEF, I am examining the geopolitical and socio-environmental aspects of energy transition minerals from a global perspective. My previous posting was as Senior Research Fellow in the Sustainable Minerals Institute’s Development Minerals Program, where I oversaw the establishment of an online knowledge exchange network for ASM miners and quarry workers – the Delve Exchange. My doctoral thesis dealt with Indigenous community participation in post-conflict mineral resource governance in Colombia. As part of this, I was a Visiting Endeavour Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Subsequently, I was a Rotary Peace Fellow at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. I held Research Fellow and Research Manager roles at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland, where I worked on a broad suit of topics focusing on Latin American and Australian sites. I have been a consultant to NGOs and mining companies providing specialist knowledge and advisory services in connection to mining and development projects.
As a sociopsychologist, I am interested in intragroup processes and how these processes shape people’s experience, their well-being, attitudes, and intergroup relations. I analyse these issues in two fields: i) multicultural contexts and national identity, and ii) environmental threats. My research is characterised by an interest in studying these phenomena in contexts that may appear banal at a first glance (mothers’ intergroup contacts with other mothers in playgrounds, small everyday memories associated with national symbols, children’s experiences in mouldy school buildings). The analyses of these kinds of slow moving and everyday phenomena may play a pivotal role in the development of many sociopsychological approaches and fields and they have high practical meaning.
I work as a Post Doctoral Researcher in the Neuro impact and innovation research team. My research interests cover topics such as social processes of research collaboration with private and public sector stakeholders, co-research and patients’ experiental knowledge. My teaching experience focuses on qualitative research methods, innovation culture and innovation management research courses. Before entering the UEF, I worked as a researcher at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and in the international HRD in the steel industry.
Hytönen-Ng is an ethnomusicologist and a cultural researcher, who specializes in the ethnographic study of people’s musical experiences. Her research topic include popular music research (especially jazz), peak experiences related to music, work environment of musicians, musicians’ mobility, sonic environment of reception center, soundscape studies, schools soundscape, the role of sound in shamanic rituals and the meaning of sound in the creation of relationship with the environment.
In her latest research she studies the lamenting tradition and how it lives in the contemporary world, as well as what kind of meanings are give to it and how it is experiences in the body.
The funding for the research comes from KKES, foundation for the promoting Karelian culture, and Kone Foundation.
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) funded by the Research Counsil of Finland, and a workpackage on digital health technologies and services of older adults (75+) as part of a Nordic collaboration project (HAIDI). In addition, 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.
Industrial Forest Biotechnology; Biorefining; New biobased products; Forest Health; Climate Change Management. Experienced Researcher with a demonstrated history of working in the research industry. Skilled in Sustainable Development, Plant Ecology, Biodiversity, Biomass, and Natural Resource Management. Early: strong research professional with a Doctor of philosophy focused in Plant physiology and ecology from Komarov Botanical Institute in St. Petersburg.
Erkko works as a professor in the special education scientific discipline at UEF. Erkko’s research interests lie in the development of teaching methods and support for learning in various educational levels (e.g., in higher education), support for behavioral and emotional functioning (e.g., strengths), learning analytics and dispositional learning analytics in teaching and research, and technology in education. Erkko’s tasks relate to research, teaching, supervising, and enabling research. Additionally, Erkko is co-leader of UEF DIGS RC pedagogy and support for learning research area. Erkko is a work package leader and PI of university context in the learning analytics OAHOT project. Erkko is also a trained teacher with experience of both comprehensive and higher education. Erkko holds title of docent of quantitative research methods in educational sciences to University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland
A motivated researcher with a strong background in cell culture, stem cell, and next-generation sequencing work. Contributed to develop methodology for producing human iPSC-derived microglia and organoids to study the development of the brain and Alzheimer’s disease. Participated in several research projects, some of which produced publications and one of which led to a patent. Experienced in writing SOPs, qualification protocols, and reports. A competent scientist with a solid foundation in molecular biology and bioinformatics.
FLIP&Learn is a research project conducted in collaboration with University of Eastern Finland, Tampere University and University of Turku. The purpose of this research is to investigate the influence of various teaching approaches and learning environments in the field of technical sciences in higher education. In particular, the Flipped Learning approach is being studied. Both students’ learning experiences and teachers’ teaching experiences are examined in this research project.
