The project evaluate the comprehensive teacher education and develope it research-based and in collaboration with different actors while recognizing the viewpoints of the practitioners.
A New Agenda for Nurse Educator Education in Europe
Administrative decisions on child support in early childhood education and care
Aija Laitinen (aija.laitinen@uef.fi)
I am working on a dissertation that describes food education in primary school − learning objectives, as well as educators’ perceptions, barriers and facilitators for action.
Aino Äikäs (aino.aikas@uef.fi)
My research and teaching areas in the field of Special Education deal with interprofessional collaboration, intellectual and developmental disabilities, significant support needs in education and inclusive education. University pedagogy and transnational education are also my interests.
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Alina Inkinen (alina.inkinen@uef.fi)
I work as a project researcher in the School Well-being, Learning Support, and Teacher Segregation Project (KOTOPE). In this project, my research focuses on the appearnce of school segregation from the perspective of teachers across different regions of Finland and various types of schools. Additionally, I examine teachers’ educational pathways and their placement in the profession, as well as issues related to segregation as part of these.
My other research interests include higher education policy, especially politics of transitions that are related to access to higher education from both political documents and applicants’ perspectives.
Alina Kuusisto (alina.kuusisto@uef.fi)
I work as a project researcher at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. In gained my PhD in 2017 in Finnish history. I have studied higher education policy, history of education and agriculture, Finnish and European cross-border cooperation, as well as the local and regional history of North Karelia and Eastern Finland in 1800s and 1900s .
Anna Kristiina Kokko (annakristiina.kokko@uef.fi)
My research intrests relate to nexus between educational policy, equality, sustainability and mundane life of schools. In my dissertation, by using ethnographic approach, I study how school policies participate to the mundane school life of children and adults.
Anna Kårlund (annka@uef.fi)
I have my educational and professional background in plant biology and food biotechnology, especially in the fields of berry research and agricultural byproduct utilization. Currently, I work with metabolomics analyses in LongITools project to study the effects of dietary exposures on human metabolism. My main research interests include the application of integrative omics approaches and in vitro digestion models in surveying the interactions between plant food matrices and human nutrition physiology, and the food technological means to improve the nutritional quality of sustainable protein sources.
Anna Rawlings (anna.rawlings@uef.fi)
In my research, I examine motivation, learning, and well-being in different learning environments and among learners of different ages. I am particularly interested in how temperament guides these phenomena, processes, and their interconnections. I have started working as a grant researcher at UEF in May 2023.
I am also coordinator of FinEd, or the Finnish Multidisciplinary Doctoral Training Network on Educational Sciences (2022–).