Research emphasis on Accounting and Finance in SMEs. Current research interests and topics include application of artificial intelligence (e.g. neural network) in the area of accounting & finance, circular economy, the role of ethics to firm performance etc.
Kari Korolainen ([email protected])
How do traditions – cultural continuities within immaterial and material folklore and customs – relate to geographical and other, more symbolic borders as well the plurality of mobilities? And what kinds of perspectives open up, when these issues are addressed from the viewpoint of material and visual culture, and aesthetic matters? How do we visualize, especially by means of sketching, things like immaterial folklore, beauty, or borders? What viewpoints research and arts, separately and together, provide for these questions?
Folklore and culture studies researcher Kari Korolainen is specialized in cultural traditions and mundane aesthetic issues, as well in visual and material culture, not only in the research but also from the practical stance. In the project the Lost Mitten and Other Stories (Jan 1, 2018-July 31, 2020), Korolainen combined research and visual arts. Accordingly, “Marjatta & Ilman Kinna” comic book was published (by Kirjokansi) in February 2020 In the earlier studies, Korolainen dealt with issues as the borderlands of (visual) arts, home decoration and cultural customs from the viewpoint of artification. Korolainen possess multidimensional expertise also in the issues relating to the collecting and the archives of the folklore materials. He used to work in the Finnish Literature Society Archive and in the North Karelian Museum. Formerly, he worked as a visual artist.
Kari Sormunen ([email protected])
Science education I am in charge of primary teacher education, where I teach the pedagogy of science in multidisciplinary studies, and I supervise bachelor’s and master’s theses. I am also the responsible person in the pedagogical studies of a subject teacher; there I teach the pedagogy of science mainly to physics, chemistry, and mathematics teacher students. I have participated in several European teacher education projects and spent autumn 2016 as a visiting Fulbright scholar at Stanford University, CA. My research interests are in inclusive science education and multidisciplinary STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics) education. I also follow the NoS (Nature of Science) research.
Karli Storm ([email protected])
As a member of the three-person InBorder research team, Storm(-Närväinen) is interested in dissecting practices of border- and borderlander governance in democratic, semi-democratic, and authoritarian regimes. The InBorder research team, made up of P.I. Prof. Christofer Berglund (Malmö University, Sweden), Prof. Ketevan Bolkvadze (Lund University, Sweden), and Storm-Närväinen (UEF, KTL), and is charged with investigating official and unofficial practices of borderland governance across three paradigmatic cases–among Russians in Estonia’s Ida-Viru region, Armenians in Georgia’s Javakheti region, and among Talysh in Azerbaijan’s Lenkaran region. Storm-Närväinen is primarily occupied with the Georgian and Azerbaijani aspects of the study, although she is involved in aspects of the desk research phase of the Estonian case as well. Storm(-Närväinen)’s prior research focused upon the politics of memory and identity among members of ethnic/national minority groups in Georgia, namely among the Georgian Azeri-Turks of the Kvemo Kartli border region. Her geographic area of expertise is the South Caucasus and its constituent states (Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan), although her research interests have led her to undertake inquiries touching upon peoples and states in Russia and Central Asia as well. Storm-Närväinen is a native speaker of English and possesses varying levels of proficiency in the Azerbaijani, Finnish, Georgian, Kazakh, and Russian languages as well.
Kasper Katisko ([email protected])
Currently, I work as a medical doctor (psychiatry resident) at Oulu University Hospital and as Adj. Professor / Senior researcher in the University of Eastern Finland, Department of Neurology, FinFTD network. My research interests focus especially on new blood based biomarkers in frontotemporal dementia and other neurodegenerative / psychiatric disorders. I also supervise several PhD thesis projects focusing on different aspects of frontotemporal dementia.
Katariina Kotila ([email protected])
In my PhD research, I explore young adults’ experiences of home in different situations in life. I am particularly interested in how emotions and feelings become intertwined with (re)making the sense of home. The theoretical framework of my research leans onto the cultural geography of home and the research of emotions and affects. In my Master’s thesis, I explored home and gender. As a project researcher, I have worked in projects focused on the rural areas: everyday safety, care and concern in rural areas, materialities of rural villages, and young people’s experiences of everyday life and expectations of future in rural Finland.
Katariina Ylönen ([email protected])
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.
Kateryna Holzer ([email protected])
At UEF, Kateryna Holzer leads a project on Regulatory Cooperation on Carbon Standards (RECOSTA), a work package in a project on Voluntary carbon offsetting in (climate) action: Perception coalitions, representations, and regulation (OFFCORR) and a Joint Nordic Master’s Programme (NOMPEL) course on International Economic Law and Green Transitions. She has been working in climate change and energy research, teaching and consultancy since 2009, with a focus on trade rules and measures stimulating green economy transition and sustainable development. Kateryna is a member of the Climate Change and International Environmental Law research group at the Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law (CCEEL), the Platform on International Energy Governance, Climate Strategies and a board member of the Swiss Energy Law Association. She was formerly a visiting scholar at the WTO Trade and Environment Division and worked as a postdoc at the World Trade Institute in Bern and as an assistant professor at the Academy of Foreign Trade in Kyiv. Kateryna holds a PhD in Law and a Master of International Law and Economics from the University of Bern, as well as a PhD in Economics from Ukraine, a Master of International Management from the Ukrainian Academy of Foreign Trade and a Bachelor of Economics from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Kati Kasanen ([email protected])
Dr Kati Kasanen is a senior university lecturer in psychology and has also higher education work experience as a study counselling psychologist. Kati is a member of ability-self research group and is interested especially in evaluative educational practices. She is an enthusiastic and active pedagogical developer in her daily work.
Kati Kulovesi ([email protected])
I hold LL.M degrees from the University of Helsinki and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). My PhD is also from the LSE, focusing on the challenges of the environment and legitimacy at the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement System. I am also affiliated with the 3E Center at the Brussels School of Governance, the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, with the Erik Castren Institute for International Law and Human Rights at the University of Helsinki, as well as with the Earth Negotiations Bulletin / International Institute for Sustainable Development. My main research interests are international, EU, national and comparative climate change law, as well as international economic law and international legal theory. I also very much enjoy multidisciplinary climate change research both with other social scientists and natural scientists. I work closely with the UEF Research Group on Atmospheric Physics and with other climate scientists within the Atmospheric and Climate Competence Center Flagship. Beyond academia, I have worked as legal adviser and consultant, inter alia, for the Finnish Government, the World Bank, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, European Commission, Nordic Council of Ministers, IUCN, International Institute for Sustainable Development, International Trade Center, World Resources Institute and Nordic Environment Finance Corporation.