I work as a part-time teacher and language specialist in the South Karelian dialect of the Karelian language. I am also a project researcher in the online dictionary project for the Karelian language. Additionally, I translate into South Karelian.
Elias Koivisto ([email protected])
My research focuses on mapping changes in plant communities, species richness, biodiversity, environmental factors. My main data sources come from drone and satellite images that I use to monitor long-term and large-scale changes in the environment. This visual information I am combining with field data, for instance species, biomass and soil information. To take things a bit further, I am utilizing machine learning and AI in my research.
Elias Ylä-Herttuala ([email protected])
Currently working as an Adjunct Professor to develop advanced cardiac MRI methods and molecular MRI for the characterization of different cardiovascular diseases. I am leading the cardiac imaging group (MRI-, hyperpolariztion MRI-field, PET/CT, PET/MR, SPECT, microCT) at AIV-institute at UEF and leading couple of clinical cardiovascular imaging research projects with advanced methods in Kuopio University Hospital.
Elina Hytönen-Ng ([email protected])
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.
Elina Nivala ([email protected])
I work part-time at the University of Eastern Finland in teaching and research in social pedagogy.
My research focuses on citizenship, citizenship education, children’s and young people’s participation, young children’s experiences of loneliness, and the potential of social pedagogical work in various contexts such as early childhood education, schools, and nonformal adult education.
I am also interested in the history and theoretical foundations of social pedagogy.
In addition to my university duties, I serve as the Chair of the Finnish Society for Social Pedagogy and as the Managing Editor of the Journal of Social Pedagogy (Sosiaalipedagogiikka).
Elina Paavonen ([email protected])
My research focuses on understanding the interconnected roles of freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems. The aim is to investigate how anthropogenic changes in the freshwater cycle affect the processes of freshwater-supported terrestrial ecosystems. I work in a project where we study shifts in the global freshwater cycle, the human influences driving these changes, and the impacts on the Earth system. Our goal is to identify just and viable solutions to protect the essential freshwater functions that are vital in the Earth system.
Elina Siltanen ([email protected])
I work as University Lecturer of English Language and Culture from August 1, 2023.
I also worked at UEF in 2020-2021.
My research focuses on contemporary American experimental poetry. I am currently doing research under the title Affective Border-Crossings: Reading for Human-Nature-Culture Connections in Anglophone Literatures. My previous project Difficult Relations: Reading for Emotion in Recent American Experimental Poetry was funded by the Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation, the Kone Foundation and the Emil Aaltonen Foundation. This project was conducted at the Department of English, University of Turku. In the project, I wrote several articles. My monograph, Experimentalism as Reciprocal Communication in Contemporary American Experimental Poetry: John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, was published by John Benjamins in 2016.
At the University of Eastern Finland, I teach anglophone and particularly American literature and academic writing in English Language and Culture. I have completed the full pedagogical qualification for university teachers (60 credits).
Previously, I have worked as a researcher and in substitute teaching positions at the Department of English, University of Turku, Lund University, and at Luleå University of Technology. I have a double doctoral degree/PhD from the University of Turku and Luleå University of Technology (2014).
More information available on my website http://www.elinasilta.com.
My full list of publications is available here https://elinasilta.com/academic-publications/.
Elina Turjanmaa ([email protected])
Elina Turjanmaa is a Lecturer in Social Psychology in the Department of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on migration, minority identities, and family relationships. She has examined, for example, how intergenerational relationships are shaped after migration, the transmission of historical trauma in families with a forced migrant background, and the relationship between familial remembering of past traumatic events and descendants’ mental health. After completing her doctoral degree at the University of Helsinki in 2020, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Migration Institute of Finland and the University of Oulu, and as a visiting researcher at the University of Essex, before joining Kuopio in Autumn 2024. Currently, Elina leads a project funded by the Kone Foundation that examines intergenerational experiences of non-belonging and their connections to mental health in Swedish Finnish families.
Elisa Männistö ([email protected])
All living things are adapting to the constantly changing world, and I as a biologist am interested in understanding how. Currently, I am intrigued by ecology of peatland ecosystems that are tightly linked to the ongoing climate change. In my PhD project, I study the spatial and temporal variation of methane and biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOC) emissions in boreal peatland ecosystems. These gases have an important role in climate regulation, as methane is a potent climate warming greenhouse gas and BVOCs can have both climate warming and cooling effects. The objects of my research are
- to uncover the links between both methane and BVOC emissions and peatland vegetation (variation in space).
- to study the variation in methane and BVOC fluxes over growing season and between different years (variation in time).
- to quantify how decreasing water level changes the BVOC emissions from the Sphagnum mosses, in a greenhouse experiment.
Elisa Tiilikainen ([email protected])
I am a social scientist interested in issues related to ageing, life course and social wellbeing. My work includes work with research projects and teaching around questions related to social gerontology and gerontological social work. I have lead a four-year research project on old-age social inclusion in home care (SOLDEX) and a workpackage on digital health technologies and services of older adults (75+) as part of a Nordic collaboration project (HAIDI). Currently I am the PI of a four-year research project on older men’s driving cessation (DRIVEX) anda three-year project on working with complex family relations in gerontological social work (VAPGE). My research team consists of post doctoral and doctoral researchers and I am involved in several multidisciplinary programs and networks.