I work as a postdoctoral researcher at SURE, the Research Unit for the Sociology of Education. Previously, I have worked on projects examining various forms of educational segregation and inequality.
My research focuses on the relationship between education and society, and the societal dimensions of teaching and teacher education.
I am an adult educator and work as a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Educational Sciences and Psychology. My research focuses on personnel workplace learning and the basic psychological needs in working life. I have examined workplace learning from a collective perspective, and explored issues such as collective self-determination, as well as leadership in various work contexts. Currently, my research focuses on workplace loneliness and how it develops in relation to workplace learning situations in Finnish microenterprises. My aim is to share insights from my research for the benefit of organizations and society, and to support practical development work within organizations.
I have a master’s degree in biomedicine, and I am currently working as a doctoral researcher at the A. I. Virtanen Institute in Sarka Lehtonen’s group. I develop patient-derived in vitro models for brain diseases using human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC). My specialty is in three-dimensional organoid culture, also known as “mini-brains”.
The focus of my doctoral thesis is on familial Parkinson’s disease caused by a rare Finnish alpha-synuclein mutation. The aim of my research is to understand how this mutation disrupts neuronal and glial functions by comparing molecular and functional differences between brain organoids grown from disease-carrying and genetically “corrected” hiPSCs.
Why there is no cure for Parkinson’s disease? Because we do not understand the core mechanisms behind the disease. By uncovering what causes neurons to die in Parkinson’s disease we can design and develop treatments aimed at stopping the disease process.
Sari Havu-Nuutinen: PhD, Education. Professor on education, especially early years education. Havu-Nuutinen works at School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education involved e.g. in minor studies of pre-primary education, international master’s degree program and postgraduate studies in education. She has more than 20 years’ experience of teacher education in Finland and during the period she has actively participated in the curriculum development in teacher education.
She is internationally collaborative researcher in her research field addressing young children’s teaching and learning in science education. She has participated in science education research and developmental projects internationally and nationally. In addition, she is leading national school related projects relating to science education and flexible learning environments. She worked as a Fulbright scholar (ASLA Fulbright senior research grant) at Ohio University 2015.
I have part-time position as Vice-Dean for Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, combined with a position of joint Professor of Social Work at the University of Eastern Finland and the North Karelia Welfare Services County. The duties of vice dean focus on development of research, innovations, research infrastructures and doctoral education.
My doctoral research focuses on structural-historical thinking, historical understanding, and how modes of historical thought are conveyed in university teaching. Structural history is understood in this study as a broad, transdisciplinary way of thinking that shifts attention from individual events to societal structures and long-term, multi-layered temporal processes of change.
I supervise pedagogically oriented Master’s theses in history within the joint teacher seminar (Opeseminaari) organized by the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies.
I work as a postdoctoral researcher in the “Ethical Police” (EEPO) project funded by the Kone Foundation. My background is in sociology so I’ll bring societal perspective in our research team. The key themes in my previous work and research has concerned diversity and equality in working life. In my PhD research, I focused on multi-agency collaboration in promoting two-way integration from the perspective of police work. Also in the EEPO project, my research is about collaboration and ethics of police work from the perspective of stakeholders.
I am a researcher and teacher in Service Management (master’s program) and international retail (bachelor’s program).
I am a researcher in the Intellectual Capital Management research group and UEFDigs Research Community.
In my dissertation I explored trust development in an organizational merger context.
My research interests relate to trust, management, leadership, organizational change, and managing stakeholders, especially customer relations in international retail. I apply mainly qualitative research methods and process approach. I am interested in quality management and co-research methods.
My focus in recent years has been to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurological diseases, especially Parkinson`s disease, schizophrenia and psychopathy. We use patient-derived brain cells in 2D and 3D culture systems to mimic the pathological conditions in the diseased brain more accurately. We also center our efforts on discovering new drug targets and biomarkers for the studied diseases. As the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and the ability of drugs to cross the BBB and reach the correct target is critical when designing drugs for neurological diseases, our third aim is to establish a simple model that mimics the physiological architecture and the barrier properties of the BBB. Once created, the ability of novel drugs and biomolecules like extracellular vesicles to penetrate the BBB can be tested. The model can also be used to understand the molecular and transport mechanisms that regulate BBB permeability in physiological and pathological conditions. Gained knowledge and novel discoveries will open in the future new opportunities for therapeutic developments.
For more information, please visit our research group website: https://sites.uef.fi/human-brain-disease-modelling-group/
Strategic Relationship Manager (Forest) in Innokaupunki 4 UEF – Project
Doctoral researcher at Doctoral Programme in Science, Forestry and Technology (LUMETO)
NOVA University Network – Student Board Member (UEF Representative) https://www.lbhi.is/nova
Secretariat member IUFRO Task Force “Gender Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Forest-related Sectors” (ForGEDI IUFRO TF)
Task Force member IUFRO Task Force “Building an Integrated Vision of the Forest-Based Sector with a Bioeconomy”
