Fiia Söderholm (fiia.soderholm@uef.fi)
My research focuses on associations between support, school burnout, and student engagement among general upper secondary education students. I aim to gain better understanding about the difficulties and need of support that academically well-achieved students may have during their studies. I hope that the implications of my findings will produce new information also for school personnel in general upper secondary education.
Fisheries and the protection of the Saimaa ringed seal – needs and challenges of integration (KASSY)
Integrating interests of fisheries and the protection of Saimaa ringed seal has been challenging. The project studies the tensions between protecting the Saimaa ringed seal and interests related to fishing and fisheries in lake Saimaa.
The study has two goals. First, to examine existing patterns of interaction, negotiation, and ways of collaboration along with challenges in integration between interest groups. Second, to identify practical development needs to support conflict resolution and to introduce new integrative and collaborative approaches to relevant future strategies and policies. The research results will be relevant not only concerning the Saimaa ringed seal and fisheries but also in similar conflicts over other protected species.
Frank Kiwanuka (franki@uef.fi)
I am Frank Kiwanuka, an early-career researcher at the University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Department of Nursing Science. I hold a Bachelor of Nursing Science degree and a Master of Critical Care Nursing. Between 2015 – 2018, I performed generalist nursing roles and subsequently roles of a clinical nurse specialist in adult intensive care in 2019. In my spare time, I serve as the chair of the sub-Committee for family nursing education resources; a sub-committee of the Education Committee of the International Family Nursing Association.
I am dedicated to research in family healthcare focusing on family nursing in intensive care units and the continuum. Currently, my doctoral study aims to unveil family support from the perspective of family members and nurses. And, a sub-study evaluating a nurse-led intervention that utilizes family strengths in family support.
Although I am a bit of a loner and happy in my own company: I am a polymath with interests in many hobbies – football, music, reading and learning new cultures and languages.
Good practices on supporting individuals with mental health conditions to stay in work or successfully return to work following sickness absence
Hana Vrzáková (hana.vrzakova@uef.fi)
My research ambition is to understand and enhance human cognition, performance, and development. To achieve that I specialize in methods for multimodal modeling and nonlinear dynamic systems. The domains of interest include human-computer interaction, social interaction, collaborative learning, and surgical expertise. I have been conducting empirical research since 2010 and have a holistic experience with computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW) and human-computer interaction (HCI) research. The application domains of my research span (collaborative) problem solving, computer-supported collaborative learning, source-code reading, subtitles reading, and high-precision motor control, i.e., microsurgery or indoor climbing.
Hanna-Mari Lahtinen (hanna.lahtinen@uef.fi)
Hanna Lahtinen (PhD) is a psychologist specialized in legal psychology and works as a university lecturer at University of Eastern Finland. Investigating child abuse and developing better practice for children to get access to justice has been her main interest as a practitioner and an academic for over two decades now. Her research has focused on child abuse disclosure and training investigative interviewers. Lahtinen is also an expert-member at the Administrative court of Eastern Finland and trains professionals from different fields in interviewing children. She is currently involved on two EU -funded projects:
1) In Knowledge to Prevent (2KNOW) project Lahtinen focuses on research during 1.3.2023 – 1.3.2025. Project 2KNOW aims to support and improve national and international data collection on violence against children by developing a sustainable and replicable data collection model that is suited to gathering information about online sexual violence against children.
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https://uefconnect.uef.fi/en/group/knowledge-to-prevent-2know/
https://www.suojellaanlapsia.fi/en/2know
2) COST Action to Establish networks to implement the principles on effective interviewing for investigations (ImpleMendéz) during 1.10.2023 – 30.9.2027. The project aims to support and improve national and international networks for wider implementation of the ‘Mendez Principles’, ending cruel and inhumane practices that have adversely affected so many lives through unethical interrogations. Lahtinen represents Finland in the Management Committee of the project and is a co-leader in the Working group 3 (Vulnerability themes).
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Hans Lehikoinen (hans.lehikoinen@uef.fi)
My research interests focus on students’ motivation and achievement in mathematics, and how schools and teachers can best support them. Specifically, my PhD project comprises three studies, which examine from various perspectives how students’ motivation in mathematics develops, how those changes are mutually related, how they contribute to achievement, and whether they are predicted by teaching condition (co- or solo-teaching).
Harri Kalimo (harri.kalimo@uef.fi)
The economy and the environment are fundamental elements of sustainable Finnish, European and indeed global futures. The EU continues to strive towards a more competitive economy, while it at the same time faces enormous environmental challenges in many areas from resource use to biodiversity and climate change. Moreover, these environmental and economic challenges are tightly intertwined. The search for increasing global welfare needs to take place within the limited boundaries of the natural resources available today and for the generations to come. This challenge promises on the other hand also opportunities for those that are the most advanced in “greening their economies”.
These societal challenges and opportunities are at the core my professorship on the “circular economy” and the EU and international economic law. The societal objectives and the support for achieving them takes to a notable extent place in the laws and policies that govern the fast evolving environmental and economic sectors, and their interactions in Finland, the EU and beyond. The objective of my professorship is to deliver theoretically advanced, policy relevant research and education on this environment-economy nexus, focusing on the circular economy, sustainable trade agreements and green public procurement.
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Heikki Uimonen (heikki.uimonen@uef.fi)
Heikki Uimonen (PhD) held a post of professor at the University of Eastern Finland. He is an ethnomusicologist and a docent on acoustic communication and soundscape studies at the Universities of Tampere and Eastern Finland and part-time musician. Uimonen has published over ninety articles, a monograph and edited anthologies on music consumption, radio music, compact cassettes and changing sonic environments. His research interests include sonic construction of place, mediated music, social use of music, transforming soundscapes and how all these intertwine.
Uimonen is directing Academy-of-Finland-financed project ACMESOCS. Auditory Cultures, Mediated Sounds and Constructed Spaces (2019–2022) and UEF research team on multinational B-Air Art Infinity Radio Creating Sound Art for Babies, Toddlers and Vulnerable Groups project (2020–2023). He has examined how contemporary audio technology can be used in soundscape participatory research and led projects Transforming Finnish Soundscapes and sub-project on Health Supporting Multisensory Food Environment. Uimonen was a member of COST project standardizing soundscape concept in Europe. He has worked as a member of the research groups investigating six European villages and European acoustic heritage defining, describing and preserving sound cultures of Europe and recently in project studying sensory environments of cities of Turku, Brighton and Ljubljana (see CV and publications below).
Tel. +345 50 345 1900