Research emphasis on corporate finance and auditing in SMEs. Recent topics include perpectives related to ownership structures, family ownership, board structure, gender, taxation etc.
Mervi Rantsi ([email protected])
I am a health economist interested in implementation science. I conduct implementation studies by applying methods from health economics, and my research topics and interests focus primarily on older adults.
In my PhD thesis, I evaluated the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different implementation strategies, as well as the association between physicians’ peer networks and the prescribing of psychotropic medications. Currently, I am conducting research on clinical guideline adherent and non-adherent prescribing in the GuideGap project and on the effectiveness of home care for older adults.
I work as the coordinating university lecturer and personal study plan supervisor in Health economics master’s program.
Methods and Models of Reasoning in Systems (MeMoR) Research Group
Mette Kivistö ([email protected])
I am a doctoral researcher in Critical Border Studies at the Karelian Institute. My research focuses on the role of the private sector in EU border security, particularly the border industry operating at the EU’s eastern border.
Mia Ahonen ([email protected])
I am a doctoral researcher in adult education, with a particular interest in adult learning, and neurodiversity and inclusiveness in working life. In my dissertation, I explore the experiences of highly educated women diagnosed with ADHD in relation to learning at work.
My research is funded by The Finnish Concordia Fund and The Emil Aaltonen Foundation.
Michael Pace-Sigge ([email protected])
BA Joint Hons English and German 1997; MA Directed Research, Lenition in Scouse voiceless plosives, 2003; PhD, Lexical Priming in Spoken English, 2010 (University of Liverpool).
‘Assessment of scientific proposals expert’, for ANEP (the Ministry of Science, Spain). Assistant editor of Journal of Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (JCADS).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5164-5242
Michael Pace-Sigge initially worked as university teacher at the University of Liverpool, UK from 2005 – 2012 and as university teacher at Liverpool Hope University 2007-08. In 2012 he was appointed Senior Lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland, where he continues to teach and do research. Beyond that, he has taught during Erasmus exchanges in Estonia, Italy, Lithuania, Spain, and Ukraine. Starting with an interest in Scouse (the accent of Liverpool) he moved from a phonetics MA to a corpus linguistics PhD. His particular interest lies in the Lexical Priming Theory (as can be seen by his 2013 and 2017 books). He also keeps finding further applications for corpus linguistics (as the 2015, 2018 and 2020 books attest). Of late, his interest has shifted to language applications in AI and Paul Hopper’s Emergent Grammar research.
Main publisher: Palgrave Macmillan. Also published with John Benjamins and Elsevier.
Link to the Pathways to Textuality, symposium in Honour of Michael Hoey Symposium: https://sites.uef.fi/pathwaystotextualitysymposium/
Select bibliography:
- Linked Noun Groups. Opposition and Expansion as Genre and Style Markers. 2020. Abingdon: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Spreading Activation, Lexical Priming and the Semantic Web. 2018. Abingdon: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Lexical Priming – Applications and Advances. 2017. Co-edited with K. J. Patterson Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Murphy, S., Culpeper, J., Gillings, M., & Pace-Sigge, M. 2020. What do students find difficult when they read Shakespeare? Problems and solutions. Language and Literature, 29(3), 302-326.
- A case study on some frequent concepts in works of poetry. 2019. Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science Vol. 5.1, pp. 122-151.
Microplastic research and technology
Migration and Transnational Everyday Life in Finnish-Russian Border Area at Era of Austerity
This project is on-going ethnographic research of migrants in North Karelia. Since the beginning of the 2000s, I have been carrying on my research among Russian migrants from the everyday ethnographic perspective, in the border areas of North Karelia. The theoretical framework of the project lies in the intersection of welfare politics, transnational everyday life, rural border areas and everyday geopolitics (see e.g. Pöllänen & Davydova-Minguet 2017). Methodologically the study continues the border ethnography tradition (Davydova & Pöllänen 2010, 2011; Vila 2003). This project conducts research on migration and transnationalism in the contexts of border areas in the era of austerity policy and politics.
Miia Kivipelto ([email protected])
Professor Miia Kivipelto, MD, PhD, is a specialist geriatrician with a PhD degree in Neurology, and a docent in Neurology and Neuroepidemiology.
She is the Chief Executive Officer of the Nordic Brain Network, a multidisciplinary research team of around 100 researchers and clinical staff based in Finland (University of Eastern Finland, THL), Sweden (Karolinska Institutet), and the United Kingdom (Imperial College London). Prof. Kivipelto is a member of a number of leading global dementia task forces, including the G8 Dementia Summit, OECD Mapping for big data in Alzheimer research, WHO ministerial meeting in Global actions against dementia and WHO dementia risk reduction guidelines working group.
Other appointments:
Professor of Clinical Geriatrics and senior geriatrician; Center for Alzheimer Research Karolinska Institutet; Stockholm, Sweden.
Director for Research & Development of Theme Aging; Karolinska University Hospital; Stockholm, Sweden.
Chair in Neuroepidemiology and Director of the Ageing Epidemiology Research Unit; Imperial College London; London, United Kingdom.
Miika Karjalainen ([email protected])
Doctoral researcher studying the antiviral properties of compounds isolated from tree bark in Antti Haapala group in colaboration with Varpu Marjomäki group at the University of Jyväskylä, which focuses on virus research. I specialize in virology, with a main focus on prevalent RNA viruses such as entero- and coronaviruses, and on antiviral strategies against them.