Virpi Kaukio is a researcher in environmental aesthetics, who in her PhD thesis (UEF 2013) examined the complex relationship between the environmental experiences offered by art and fiction and the environments experienced physically on site. More recently, Kaukio has been studying intangible cultural heritage and the changes in the use of mires and the cultural relationship with nature (Mire Trend research project, UEF, Kone Foundation, 2020-2023). Kaukio became interested in museums as a platform for experiential publishing during her work experience (Riihisaari – Savonlinna Museum 2019) and while studying museology (Jyväskylä Open University 2023), when she drafted sketches on the possibilities of a multisensory museum.
This project of museum as a platform for experiential publishing of research explores ways to make visible information or research processes that are challenging or impossible to publish through traditional scientific publishing channels. The study examines experiential or so-called tacit knowledge, which is difficult to verbalize and conceptualize, from the perspective of aesthetics and sensory research.
The central idea behind publishing differently is to make information more equally accessible and pluralistic. For the museum, new ways provide a means to contribute to the social debate. For researchers, the museum can offer new channels for publishing research. Because a museum operates spatially and three-dimensionally, activating all the senses, its means of presentation are more responsive to individual and community experience and live cultural heritage as a process.
The project is carried out by Virpi Kaukio at the University of Eastern Finland and funded by the Kone Foundation 2024-2025. The research will be conducted through observation and interviews with researchers, artists, museum professionals and other people involved in experimental activities in museums. The materials will be analyzed using environmental aesthetics, ethnographic and neo-materialist research methods, and art and cultural studies perspectives. In addition to scientific articles, the project will produce practical guidelines for those planning to publish experimental research in a museum.
Virpi Salojärvi, D.Soc.Sci., is University Lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of Eastern Finland and a Senior Researcher and Work Package Leader in the Horizon Europe project DeAppeal (Deconstruct and Resist Autocratic Appeal to Reinvigorate Democracy) at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on polarization, populism, conflict and crisis, social media, journalism, political communication, emotions, and methodological development, particularly in audiovisual analysis.
Salojärvi received her doctorate in Media and Communication Studies from the University of Helsinki in 2016 and holds the title of Docent in Media and Communication Studies at the same institution. Before joining the University of Eastern Finland in 2026, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher (2016-2020) and University Researcher (2020-2025) at the University of Helsinki and as Assistant Professor at the University of Vaasa (2020-2025).
Her previous research projects include Mainstreaming Populism in the 21st Century (2017-2021), Whirl of Knowledge: Cultural Populism in European Polarised Politics and Societies (2019-2022), ENDURE: Inequalities, Community Resilience and New Governance Modalities in a Post-Pandemic World (2022-2025), and Short Videos as Young People’s News Source (2022-2024).
In addition to her research and teaching, Salojärvi serves on the board of Rajapinta ry and is a member of the Committee for the Improvement of Academic Life of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). She previously chaired IAMCR’s Crisis, Security and Conflict Communication Working Group (2018-2026) and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Miami and the University of Valencia.
I was awarded PhD degree, with management and organization as my major subject 18th of December 2012, the 5-year assistant professorship in 2015, and invited to work as the Head of subject and Vice Head of Department in 2016-2018 at Hanken. In 2021 I was hired to manage an Academy of Finland funded project Executive Education as Strategy Practice at Aalto University and JSBE and continued as a University Lecturer in Management in JSBE before joining UEF Business School. My current research focus on the development of business networks in Finland through executive education.
My earlier published work is based on two extensive ethnographic research projects in city organizations. I have also built other joined research projects. The results are published or are in publication process in high quality peer-reviewed journals and in books published by international and national academic publishers.
I have also done academic service in the Strategic activities and practices interest group in the most respected academic community in the field of Management and organisation, the Academy of Management. This position was part of the 5-year chair track and lasted by the end of 2022. I have also worked in a leadership group in the Strategy as practice community in EGOS (European Group of Organization Studies) and presented my work actively in other respected international academic communities (e.g. PROS Process organisation studies, CMS Critical Management Studies). I am an active member in an international Strategy as Practice research network.
I am a University Lecturer in Special Education and a docent in Education Technology, particularly Education Technologies for People with Special Needs (School of Computing).
My research and teaching focus on the development of learning environments, the design and implementation of educational technologies, supporting learning and well-being, enhancing communication, interaction and participation, autism, and the development of teacher education. In addition to teaching, I supervise master’s theses, doctoral researchers, and teaching practice for special education teacher students. I am responsible for the Special Education Teacher Qualification Studies.
I am a health economist interested in register-based research. In my PhD thesis I studied how potentially inappropriate medications in older people are associated with health care use, costs and mortality. After the dissertation, my research has continued to focus on the older people and medication use, increasingly focused on physicians’ decision-making and system-level implementation evaluation using registry data and quasi-experimental methods. I am a Principal Investigator in a mixed-method GuideGap project (funded by the Social Insurance Institution (SII) of Finland), which aims to evaluate physicians’ adherence to clinical guidelines generally.
I hold a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Computer Science, a PhD in Bioinformatics, and a Docentship in Health Bioinformatics. My research is centered on developing and implementing machine learning, heuristic optimization, and network data mining algorithms to tackle the principal computational challenges inherent in the precision medicine (PM) approach. PM is dedicated to the integration of molecular markers with conventional clinical data to customize medical treatment and enhance patient outcomes. My team’s current projects include: 1) patient stratification utilizing both single- and multi-view datasets, facilitated by deep learning, dimensionality reduction, and knowledge-driven clustering analyses; 2) biomarker identification through the analysis of extensive genomics data, applying metaheuristic techniques for feature selection, and; 3) the creation of network data mining algorithms aimed at discovering drug targets and repurposing existing drugs. Our work is pivotal in translating complex biological data into actionable insights for PM, ultimately aiming to optimize individual patient care.
Vivien Reh is a doctoral researcher in the climate law group of CCEEL at the University of Eastern Finland. Her research positions itself at the intersection between international climate law and the natural sciences with a focus on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement in the context of climate tipping point science.
Other areas of interest and research include adaptive law, principles of international environmental law and scientific uncertainty.
Leader of the Nanomedicine team (Drug-D), Department of Technical Physics, UEF. Main research interest is focused on the development of novel porous Nanomaterials for Biomedical and environmental applications
My research interests focus on resilience as a moderator of Finnish university students’ coping and well-being during and after the pandemic. Specifically, my PhD project explores the diverse patterns of university students’ coping profiles at the beginning of the pandemic, the development of resilience and well-being during the pandemic, and how resilience moderates the relations between perceived demands and recovery over time.
