Professor Tiina Laatikainen has a PhD degree in Public Health and Epidemiology, and is a docent in Public Health. Since 2012, she has worked as a Professor of Health Promotion at the University of Eastern Finland and currently as a Professor of Public Health. She has been in various research positions at the Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare (THL) and its predecessor National Public Health Institute (KTL) since 1996.
Tiina Luoma ([email protected])
I am currently working on my postdoctoral project, in which I examine between- and within-school segregation in urban areas using ethnographic methods. My research interests include themes related to educational (in)equalities. In 2025, I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher on the OpeSegr project, which investigates teacher segregation in Finland. I am a qualified subject teacher in Finnish as both a first and second language.
Tiina Sihto ([email protected])
I work as an Academy Research Fellow in the project Young carers in Finland: Life course transitions, family care chains and support for caring (YCaFin). The project has started in September 2024 and will continue until August 2028. The project is funded by the Research Council of Finland (funding decision no. 359928).
Previously I have worked at the University of Helsinki, in SustAgeable consortium and at the University of Jyväskylä, in various research and teaching positions at the unit of social and public policy, and in the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care. In my research work, I have focused on the difficult and often hidden experiences of care, such as children and young people as carers for their kin, regretting motherhood, care poverty and the costs of care. You can find more info on my work here and my up-to-date list of publications from GoogleScholar.
If you would be interested in collaborating on the themes related to the YCaFin project, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Tiina Sotkasiira ([email protected])
I am a Professor in Social and Public Policy at the Department of Social Sciences. I am also the deputy director of the UEF’s Borders, Mobilities and Cultural Encounters (BOMOCULT) Research Community.
My research is oriented towards international migration, ethnic relations, bordering processes, diversity, embodiment, as well as participatory and creative methods. Over the years, I have studied topics, such as integration, racism and anti-racism, media use, everyday security, Russian nationality politics and international migration into rural areas.
The central theme of my research is the politicisation of migration issues and understanding how societal changes impact people’s everyday lives. Most recently, I have shifted my research focus towards the issues of security and conflicts. My teaching mainly relates to the above-mentioned themes. I supervise PhD researchers and MA thesis.
I am a qualified body-oriented work supervisor (työnohjaaja STOry), and I gladly support colleagues and students with issues related to well-being at work.
For those interested in doctoral studies under my supervision: If you are interested in applying for a doctoral researcher position in Social and Public Policy at UEF and would like me to supervise your work, please first familiarise yourself with the application guidelines for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies Doctoral Programme, available on the UEF website. I receive dozens of enquiries of this kind every week and am only able to respond to a limited number of them. If you are seriously considering applying under my supervision, please send me a research proposal prepared in accordance with the application guidelines and without the use of artificial intelligence. I want to learn about you, your research idea and abilities as a researcher, not read generic texts produced by AI. Please also read carefully the section on funding for doctoral studies. It explains that the right to pursue doctoral studies does not include funding, and that funding must be sought separately.
Tiina Syyrilä ([email protected])
Research topics: Client- and patient safety, Safety of medication care, Communication as contributing factor to safety in medication care, reporting medication safety incidents.
Timo Hirvonen ([email protected])
Research and evaluations on regional development policy. High quality, low price.
Timo Kallinen ([email protected])
Research interests:
Secularization, secularism
Disenchantment, re-enchantment of nature
Divine kingship
African traditional religions
Conversion, missionary Christianity, Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity
Colonialism, postcolonialism
Ghana, West Africa
Timo Lakka ([email protected])
Timo Lakka is a Professor of Medical Physiology at University of Eastern Finland, a Specialist in Internal Medicine, and an Adjunct Professor of Public Health. His research is focused on the identification of individuals at increased risk of overweight, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases and the prevention of these diseases and conditions by increasing physical activity and improving diet since childhood. He is a Principal Investigator in the Physical Activity and Nutrition in Children (PANIC) study and a Co-Principal Investigator in the Stop Diabetes (StopDia) study and the Dose Responses to Exercise Training (DR’s EXTRA) study. He has also acted as a senior researcher in many other large-scale lifestyle intervention studies, long-term epidemiological follow-up studies, and wide international genetic-epidemiological studies. He has published over 360 scientific articles in international journals, and these articles have almost 60 000 citations and a h-index of 106 (Google Scholar). He has supervised 24 doctoral theses and is a supervisor of another 13 doctoral students.
Timo Leppänen ([email protected])
I started my studies in the University of Eastern Finland in 2011 after two years in the service for the Finnish Defense Forces. I got my bachelor, master and doctoral degrees in five years in 2016 at the age of 26 years and my thesis earned a grade of approved with distinction (which is awarded only if dissertation falls in the category of top 5% of its field). Since then, I have been a co-head and principal investigator in the STAG, a research team focusing on sleep-related disorders and development of novel methods and computational tools for sleep data analysis. Furthermore, I have established a wide international collaboration network with world’s top-level scientists and research infrastructures as well as companies operating at business sector. My research is mainly funded by the the Academy of Finland (Postdoctoral Researcher), Business Finland (NordicPerMed project NordSleep) and private foundations.
My research is focused on development of novel diagnostic parameters, mathematical solutions, and paradigms for severity estimation of obstructive sleep apnea. Therefore, it is very closely related to medical physics but it has also strong interface with clinical medicine. Thus, my research is a great example of interdisciplinary research in University of Eastern Finland but also of active research collaboration between University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital.
Timo Tokola ([email protected])
Experience:
- Professor in Helsinki University (2002-2006) and JoY/UEF (2006-)
- Chairman of National Graduate School, and The Finnish Society of Forest Sciences, Regional Cultural Foundation etc.
- Head of the School of Forest Sciences, Vice head, Director international MSc programs, etc.
- Director of European Forestry MSc-program over 15 years (https://sites.uef.fi/europeanforestry/)
- Board of Directors (eg. Arbonaut, Suomen Metsämuseosäätiö)
- Managing around 40 research and 65 commercial projects
Fundraising (> 25 MEur Research/Education, Commercial > 15 MEur) - Private Sector working periods, > 10 years: StoraEnso, Jaakko Pöyry
- Public Sector assignments, short periods in FAO, IUCN, Public administration & State companies
- Living > 7 years outside Finland