LL.D Maija Dahlberg works at the UEF Law School as an Associate Professor of Public Law. After defending her PhD on the judicial legitimacy and legal argumentation of the European Court of Human Rights, Dr Dahlberg has moved onwards by developing legitimacy questions further in the EU human rights law context as well as broadened the research area on comparative transparency questions. Her previous research funded by the Academy of Finland focused on legitimacy and transparency of constitutional interpretation and constitutionality review more broadly.
Beyond academic scholarship, Dr Dahlberg has also been regularly consulted as a constitutional law expert at the Constitutional Law Committee of the Parliament.
Dr Dahlberg teaches courses on Constitutional Law (human rights, European Constitutional Law, law drafting and control of legality) at the University of Eastern Finland Law School. Teaching consists of both public lectures and seminars.
Research projects:
Principal investigator in the project funded by the Finnish Research Council (9/2025-8/2029): Courts as Protectors of the Rule of Law: Early Signs of Rule of Law Erosion and Repair Kit from Legal, Philosophical and Political Perspectives (‘CoROL’).
Together with Örebro University, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (8/2021-8/2024): Nordic CONREASON Project: Nordic exceptionalism? Mapping constitutional reasoning in the Nordic countries.
Finnish Research Council (8/2020-8/2023): In search of a more complete understanding of constitutional interpretation: the legitimacy and transparency of constitutionality control (‘ConstControl’).
My research focuses into carbon and nitrogen cycling in Arctic soil, and into related fluxes of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.
In the recent years, my main research interest has been in nitrogen cycling processes in permafrost-affected soils. This research field is still poorly covered, despite the fact that the intensive warming in the Arctic together with permafrost thaw may greatly improve nitrogen availability in the high latitude ecosystems, with great consequences for redistribution of nitrogen between soil, vegetation, water systems and the atmopshere.
I work as a researcher in labour law and write my doctoral thesesis on individual participation within an employment framework and the employee protective principle. Also, I work as a teaching tutor and I´m involved with a project concerning persons with memory disorders within an employment framework.
Maiju Mähönen is a PhD researcher in law. Her research focuses on access to justice and climate litigation, EU climate governance and Finland’s climate law.
Teaching and supporting in research data management, UEF Data Support services coordinated by the library.
My research field is social scientific rural studies within the discipline of social and public policy. I hold a PhD on the transformation of citizen participation in rural welfare services. My expertise lies in the study of rural civic action and the relationship between civil society and the welfare state.
My current research interests include rural service networks and the social economy, rural civic action, village safety and everyday security with a particular focus on community preparedness, digital exclusion, multilocal living, and the state and future of rural studies.
I work as a special advisor in the Rural Policy Council’s (MANE) network for “Rural habitability, housing, and integration in rural areas” (MaalleKo), and I am also a member of the Rural Policy Council’s secretariat. I participate in networks and working groups composed of representatives from science, politics, and civil society.
Other scientific and societal activities:
I am an authorized clinical nutritionist, and docent in nutrition, with specialization in lipid metabolism working at the Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition. I work as a university lecturer. I am responsible for sports nutrition studies and teach both sports nutrition and clinical nutrition studies. I have an over 15 years’ experience of randomized controlled clinical trials studying health effects of diet. Last years I have focused on gene-diet interactions related to fatty acid metabolism and prevention of type 2 diabetes and metabolic fatty liver disease. I also have an active role in the Fatty Acids and Outcomes Research Consortium, which goal is to understand the relationships between fatty acids from our diet and metabolic processes on chronic disease outcomes.
Projects: T2D-GENE, FADSDIET1&2, LIDIGE, DIFTOB
I provide support for researchers in the Faculty of Health Sciences in research funding proposal development, especially with Horizon Europe proposals. My tasks are for example:
– Finding suitable research funding opportunities
– Clarifying the terms and requirements of funders
– Assisting with and commenting on the preparation of research funding applications (Horizon Europe and Research Council of Finland)
– Communicating and providing training related to research funding
