Brexit provides an excellent opportunity to examine how the formal (state) and informal (social) processes of border-making relate to each other and play out in the everyday life of those impacted by this historic change. As the transitionary period after UK’s exit from the EU ends in December 2020, it is important to discuss the impact of the Brexit process from a migrant perspective. The prolonged uncertainty has already had an impact on the lives of intra-European migrants at multiple levels: for their legal status and rights as residents, for their work opportunities and career prospects and for identity and the sense of belonging and feeling of social inclusion to their host societies – be they the UK for the Nordic migrants or any of the other EU countries for the Brits.
UEF is host to several research projects that focus on the impact of Brexit on intra-European migrants. Dr. Tiina Sotkasiira has interviewed Finns living in Scotland and England as a part of her research on Brexit and Finns in Britain and Dr. Saara Koikkalainen has collected data among Nordic nationals in London . Together with two colleagues, researcher Peter Holley and Dr. Nicol Savinetti, Dr. Koikkalainen has also conducted a survey among Brits living in Europe (n=752).
I provide support to accessing EU and related international funding programmes by:
- monitoring and identifying suitable funding opportunities for researchers in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies,
- providing advice on the presentation and content of proposals and application procedures, in line with funder requirements and expectations, and
- participating in the consortium development and proposal preparation process and reviewing and editing proposal components, as required.
Skilled Public & Global health Researcher. Email: [email protected]. I have extensive experience in teaching, research supervision, and emerging technologies.
Research interest: Pharmacoepidemiology of vaccines, Pandemic preparedness and vaccine preventable conditions, Digital public health including AI and M-health interventions, Interventional studies and appraised research, Public health and epidemiological research methods. I have keen interest in the prevention of tropical health conditions, In-utero exposure studies and developmental health outcomes, Clinical trials.
Teaching: Evidence-based health care, Occupational health and safety, Digital public health, Emerging public health challenges and opportunities in Africa. Others are Infectious disease epidemiology, and Systematic review & meta-analysis.
Supervision: MPH thesis and Ph.D. dissertations.
Research Group: PI & Research group Leader: Vaccine monitoring, pandemic preparedness and digital public health research group, Institute of public Health, UEF
Projects: PREDICT-NEURO, MaVaxTrust, AMEN, Niselo.
The economy and the environment are fundamental elements of sustainable Finnish, European and indeed global futures. The EU continues to strive towards a more competitive economy, while it at the same time faces enormous environmental challenges in many areas from resource use to biodiversity and climate change. Moreover, these environmental and economic challenges are tightly intertwined. The search for increasing global welfare needs to take place within the limited boundaries of the natural resources available today and for the generations to come. This challenge promises on the other hand also opportunities for those that are the most advanced in “greening their economies”.
These societal challenges and opportunities are at the core my professorship on the “circular economy” and the EU and international economic law. The societal objectives and the support for achieving them takes to a notable extent place in the laws and policies that govern the fast evolving environmental and economic sectors, and their interactions in Finland, the EU and beyond. The objective of my professorship is to deliver theoretically advanced, policy relevant research and education on this environment-economy nexus, focusing on the circular economy, sustainable trade agreements and green public procurement.
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There are similar regional centres funded by the International Association of Schools of Social Work RRCs in other regions of the world such as China, Oceania and Eastern Africa. Our network of university partners is committed to exchange and communication across participating countries for the promotion of global social work education (including fieldwork) and the recognition of best examples of innovative and transformative social work research and practice.
We seek to create new opportunities for active partnership in teaching and research on the contemporary issues such as sustainability, diversity, inequality, migration and promote the regional professional profile of social work education and research. The centre is coordinated by the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany and University of Eastern Finland, Finland, higher education institutions with a longstanding commitment to global social work education and scholarship. The current coordinators of this centre are Professors Chaitali Das, (FUAS), Janet Carter Anand (UEF).
Early during my scientific career, I focused on studying protein-protein interactions by computational methods. During my PhD, I shifted my focus to protein-small molecule interactions and their modulation in the context of computer-aided drug design for neglected tropical diseases. As a passionate Linux-user and administrator, I moved on to dive into aspects of scientific databases, data management, biocuration, and FAIR data (data that is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable).
My research at UEF finally connects all the dots: I currently study various anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-protozoal, and anti-cancer targets, utilizing powerful combinations of computer-aided drug discovery and modeling techniques, programming, databases, and artificial intelligence (AI). My research focuses primarily on data-intensive drug discovery problems and the application of AI in drug discovery pipelines. For example, my recent projects involved several semi-automated modeling and docking studies for hundreds of target candidates drawn from Omics-level datasets and AI-accelerated billion-scale virtual screening efforts.
Given its data-intensive nature, my research heavily relies on high-performance computing resources and the Finnish supercomputers hosted by CSC – IT Center for Science. As a CSC Scientific Computing Ambassador for UEF, I act as a bridge between UEF’s researchers and CSC experts and aim to support other UEFians in making the most of CSC’s services and resources – Whether you would like to learn more about how you can utilize CSC super- and cloud computing resources in your research, get support for data management, or join some of the various courses and training opportunities offered by CSC, feel free to reach out!
I am a doctoral researcher at the department of social sciences. My dissertation locates in the fields of youth studies and sociology and it deals with vocational students well-being from the perspective of Capability -approach and ecological sustainability. The aim of the research is to hear young people’s own perceptions of their well-being and examine how vocational education supports young people’s opportunities to live a life they have reason to value. In addition the objective is to find out, how ecological boundaries emerge in the young people’s perceptions of their own well-being. The practices of vocational education to promote opportunities for just and sustainable well-being are analyzed.
My previous research projects has dealt with participation and belonging at child welfare services, young peoples’ experiences and well-being in the times of Covid-19 and young peoples’ educational choices as well as equality in carrier guidance.
Leading an international research project on “E-leadership with digital communication” 2021-2016 funded by the Academy of Finland. Decision number 342265.
Research area I: E-leadership and digital communication. Challenges and opportunities in e-leadership, digital communication channels in e-leadership, video communication and social presence.
Research area II: Digital transformation and sales management. Customer relationships, value co-creation, sales communication and digital interaction.
Research area III: Communication competence and the role of AI in leadership. AI and managerial competence, AI integration in service and sales teams, AI and ethics.
University Teacher and Doctoral Researcher in the International Business and Sales Management Research Group
Research Areas
The role of the sales function in organizational innovation. The role of B2B sales in organizational innovation processes and in developing innovation potential, sales innovativeness, innovation culture, and the management of innovation activities in sales teams.
Sales management and knowledge sharing in sales teams. Opportunities and challenges in sales management when developing innovation activities, barriers and enablers of knowledge sharing, and the use of technology and artificial intelligence in innovation and knowledge sharing in sales teams.
Workplace and organizational culture. Leadership and development of workplace culture, changing workplace cultures, and research on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB).
Teaching and Supervision
Sales and Buyer Behavior in Retailing; International Sales; Introduction to Business Studies; Supervision of theses.
My main duties are related to Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) Alliance, which makes it possible to study and develop one’s skills physically and online in 10 universities around Europe. I lead YUFE’s work package on Lifelong learning and support the other multilevel development work related to YUFE in our own university. I am also happy to discuss about the opportunities provided by YUFE with different groups.
Additionally, I enhance the internationalization of studies of our Finnish students, and the integration of our international students by regional, national and international network cooperation.
