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Esa Penttilä (esa.penttila@uef.fi)

Research areas include non-professional translation, research translation and translatoriality, figurative language and metaphors, idioms and idiomaticity, cognitive linguistics and translation studies, multilingual communication.

Frank Kiwanuka (franki@uef.fi)

I am Frank Kiwanuka, an early-career researcher at the University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Department of Nursing Science. I hold a Bachelor of Nursing Science degree and a Master of Critical Care Nursing. Between 2015 – 2018, I performed generalist nursing roles and subsequently roles of a clinical nurse specialist in adult intensive care in 2019. In my spare time, I serve as the chair of the sub-Committee for family nursing education resources; a sub-committee of the Education Committee of the International Family Nursing Association.

I am dedicated to research in family healthcare focusing on family nursing in intensive care units and the continuum. Currently, my doctoral study aims to unveil family support from the perspective of family members and nurses. And, a sub-study evaluating a nurse-led intervention that utilizes family strengths in family support.

Although I am a bit of a loner and happy in my own company: I am a polymath with interests in many hobbies – football, music, reading and learning new cultures and languages.

Hanne Lahti (hanne.lahti@uef.fi)

University Instructor in Academic and Professional English, Language Centre, Kuopio Campus. Contact person in issues concerning well-being at work, Kuopio campus. I teach mainly fourth- and fifth-year students in the Faculty of Health Sciences (Medicine, Biomedicine and Dentistry).

Heli Paulasto (heli.paulasto@uef.fi)

Ever since my undergraduate days, I have been fascinated by spoken language, dialects, and language contact, and the diverse ways in which the English language changes and varies. I completed my PhD on Welsh language influence in the grammar of Welsh English in 2006 and continue to have an intense interest in the Englishes of the Celtic culture regions. I have also carried on studying the grammar of contact-induced varieties of English in other parts of the world using corpus methods. The central position of English as a world language means that its global variation and diversity have become important contents in English language teacher education.

More recently, I have directed my attention to English in Finland and its role as a linguistic resource in our everyday lives in different contexts, such as Eastern Finnish Twitter or multilingual community arts. I am currently expanding my interest into multilingual interaction in other fields of life in Finnish society and building interdisciplinary bridges into social sciences.

Main areas of research and teaching: Language variation and change, Language contact and multilingual interaction, Sociolinguistics, World Englishes and English as a global language, English language teaching, English and multilingualism in the workplace.

Helka Riionheimo (helka.riionheimo@uef.fi)

I’m an expert in Finnish language and linguistics. Besides Finnish, my research field includes other Finnic languages, of which Karelian had recently been in special focus. I started my research with topics related to spoken language and language contacts and I have gradually moved towards studying endangered languages and revitalization. My key concept is ‘majority responsibility’: as a speaker of the majority language, Finnish, I feel I also have the obligation to look after the country’s minority languages. My aim is to develop sustainable multilingualism where linguistic diversity is seen as a resource.

Isabel Muñoz Hidalgo (isabel.munoz.hidalgo@uef.fi)

I am a forester (MSc in European Forestry & Forestry Engineer) working as a co-ordinator of the Bachelors’ degree in English Sustainable forest bioeconomy at the School of Forest Sciences. Other tasks include co-ordination of international exchange and teaching. My previous experience at UEF included building strong research & education collaborations in North and South America in the area of sustainable forest bioeconomy as well as designing and marketing of services for Global Education.

My previous studies & research focused on forest & energy policies, Corporate Responsibility and Social Safeguards under FLEGT VPA’s. I have over a decade of teaching experience (including: forestry, Spanish language & cultures, and drama)

I am highly interested in teaching, co-creation,  and involvement of different stakeholder groups including citizens to guarantee sustainable and responsible use of natural resources.

Juho Suokas (juho.suokas@uef.fi)

I focus on translation studies and English translation, other research interests include research translatoriality, music studies and language technology. PhD on user-centered translation and application of usability methods in translation.