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Marta Choroszewicz ([email protected])

I am Marta Choroszewicz (DSocSci, the title of docent in sociology) and I work at the Department of Sociology at the University of Eastern Finland. My work as a sociologist concentrates on the intersection between research on professional work, feminist theories, and science and technology studies. In my research, I have broadly investigated social inequalities in the professions, organizations and working life in general. More recently, I have studied development and implementation of data-driven practices and technologies in the Finnish health care and social services, public sector (AI) innovation and engaged with the issues of building a digital welfare state via the use of new data technologies such as automated decision-making systems. Besides my own research projects, I worked in ProPSI, DaDSoc, DataLit and DEQUAL projects.

In 2024-2025, I work on a personal grant received from the Finnish Cultural Foundation for my project “Perpetual Piloting and Invisible Work of Automating Public Services in Finland”, in which I study Artificial Intelligence (AI) based innovation processes and (in)visible work associated with them in Finnish public administration. As a part of this project, I am also tackling the meaning of ‘social sustainability’ in the context of digitalizing welfare state. The research data I collected over two years is a unique and extensive ethnographic data set of innovation activities (100+ interviews and 400+ hours of observation) across public administration sectors from two public administration organisations. The data covers various stages of design, development and experimentation of AI tools, including decision support tools, AI assistants, Microsoft 365 Copilot and predictive algorithm systems.

In 2026-2027, I will be working as a grant researcher on my project “Navigating experimental AI tools within technology-enthusiastic context of Finnish public administration” funded by the North Karelia Regional Fund (Eini ja Jorma Veikkolainen Fund) and the Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation on the impact of increasing uptake of experimental AI tools and systems on the public servants’ work and expertise as well as the Finnish public administration more broadly. The project is based on extensive ethnographic data to ensure a long-term perspective on ongoing – and accelerated by AI tools – digital transformation of Finnish public administration.

SocioCast episode on my research available at:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4xD3xZ0gRIcPg37jGYloVB?si=260c321758144368

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/sociocast-uef/generative-ai-tools-in-the-public-sector-in-finland

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/marta-choroszewicz-generative-ai-tools-in-the-public/id1665562756?i=1000790347084

Press releases about my research:

Researchers develop new model for ethical AI governance: https://www.kul.pl/researchers-develop-new-model-for-ethical-ai-governance,art_114343.html https://www.uef.fi/en/article/researchers-develop-new-model-for-ethical-ai-governance

Generative AI projects persist in public administration, even when AI tools fail to perform as promised: https://www.uef.fi/en/article/generative-ai-projects-persist-in-public-administration-even-when-ai-tools-fail-to-perform-as

More information from my personal website: https://research.choroszewicz.eu

Martin Ubani ([email protected])

Martin Ubani (PhD, M.Theol) is a professor of religious education at the University of Eastern Finland. His research interest concern religious education in public education, religion and multiculturalism and education, teacher education and spiritual education. Lately he has focused on religion and multiculturalism in public education and teacher education. He has published several books, chapters and articles. One of his publication is “Contextualising dialogue, secularisation and pluralism. Religion in Finnish public education” (Eds. Ubani, Rissanen & Poulter: Waxmann, 2019).

Ubani has served in several positions in Academic societies and for Finnish educational policy. He serves currently as a member in the Evaluation Council (2022-2026) of the Finnish Education and Evaluation Centre, in the Higher Education Evaluation Committee (2022-2026) and in the development group of religious and worldviews education issued by the Finnish Agency of Education. He was also part of the group devicing the portion for religious education in the core curriculum for basic education (2014). From 2023 Martin Ubani will serve as the co-chief editor of “Nordidactica. Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education.”

Professor Ubani has been since 2016 a visiting researcher at the Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel.

Mastaneh Torkamani Azar ([email protected])

Postdoctoral Researcher at Biomedical Image Analysis Group, A.I Virtanen Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Kuopio (2022 – present) and Interactive Technologies, School of Computing, Joensuu (2020 – 2022). Leader of proof-of-concept project from 04.2022-11.2022 in collaboration with HUMEA laboratory, Department of Technical Physics, and the Microsurgery Center of Eastern Finland at Kuopio University Hospital. Actively working on statistical signal processing, interactive medical technologies, cognitive neuroscience (sustained attention / vigilance, psychophysiological stress) and mental state monitoring, multi-modal data analysis and decision fusion for data-driven surgery, microsurgery image synthesis using generative adversarial networks, and adaptive EEG-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs).

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Matias Sivonen ([email protected])

I’m a PhD researcher majoring in environmental policy. My work focuses on studying how multi-stakeholder planning processes are organized in biodiversity conservation. In my dissertation, I study conflicts and collaboration in ministry-led workgroups which aim to reconcile fisheries and Saimaa ringed seal protection.

Matti Gurreck ([email protected])

Dr. Matti Gurreck is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland. His research takes place within the INTEL project (funded by the European Research Council, 2024-2029) and the FOUNDATIONS project (funded by the Academy of Finland, 2024-2028), which seek to develop the foundations of energy law in Europe. He is interested in EU and international energy law, environmental law, and food law. Before joining the University of Eastern Finland, he worked in research projects on water governance (as part of the German Advisory Council on Global Change, WBGU), energy law and climate policy. He obtained his PhD with a thesis on EU soft law and is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) as well as the GreenDeal-NET.

Matti Muukkonen ([email protected])

Matti Muukkonen (Dr. Adm. Sc., LL.D., M.Soc.Sc., Title of Docent in Public Law, Title of Docent in Administrative Law) is an university lecturer. His specialities are self-governing communities, especially municipalities and associations. As part of the study of municipal law, Muukkonen’s research topics concern municipalities as institutions, as local government organizes its administration and finances, and the activities of municipalities. The approach also highlights links to norms on municipal service production, the most recent causes of the crisis in elderly care.

Muukkonen returned to the university after a 10-year break. Previously, he worked as a researcher and senior assistant in administrative and European law. Outside the university, he has worked as an executive director of a non-governmental organization, a digital business development manager, a startup entrepreneur, a research director, a chief municipal officer of three municipalities, and other municipal administration tasks such as part-time Social Director, Director of Education, Head of the Kindergarten and School Assistant.

Matti Niemi ([email protected])

I work as a property law professor at the Law School of the University of Eastern Finland. My teaching contains courses and seminars in the area of property law. I act as a docent at the law faculties of the universities of Helsinki and Lapland where I give lectures. In addition, I act as a docent of jurisprudence at the law faculty of the University of Turku, and I give lectures at the School of Business and Management of the LUT university (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology). My research activities are directed to both property law and jurisprudence. In property law, my publications are located in the areas of real property law, security law and contract law. In jurisprudence, my publications are located both in the areas of legal philosophy and legal theory. In addition to my homeland, I am orientated towards international research. I act in the working groups of the Common Core of European Private Law Research Project. Books and articles are published in the frames of the project. They are located in the areas of comparative property and contract law. I participate in domestic and international conferences and I make research visits to European universities.

Meeri Tiensuu ([email protected])

I work as a Project Coordinator for the UniPID network. The Finnish University Partnership for International Development (UniPID) is a network of ten Finnish universities that has the mission to strengthen the capacity of member universities to enhance global responsibility and Global South perspectives in their education, research, and societal engagement. UniPID promotes equitable and inclusive global partnerships that advance sustainable development.

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