Research activities in HET research group are organized around thematic subgroups and teams formed by researchers working in the same HE research topic. Below you can find short introductions of the people belonging to the HET research group. If you want to hear more or would like to join the HET research group, please don`t hesitate to contact us!
Expertise areas: Challenges of internationalisation in higher education (HE), guidance and counseling in HE, pathways and routes to HE, student engagement and progression in HE, educational exclusion and drop-outs in HE, digital learning environments in university teaching, teacher’s and researcher’s identities in HE, generally questions of professional development and career paths in higher education and beyond.
Current research and activities in HET-group: Leader of the HET-group. His research has focused on e.g. access, participation and engagement of different groups in higher education, as well as, risks of dropouts and educational exclusion in higher education. Currently, he is leading international higher education development co-operation project eTraining FinPal implemented with Gaza Islamic University in Palestine territories. He is also supervising theses and dissertations, Responsible of the “internationalisation” and “student experience and learning” themes.
Additional information: Data available for theses and dissertations: e.g. quantitative Nexus-questionnaire data from several years from the first year students’ engagement (more information from the Nexus-questionnaire in Finnish: http://blogs.uta.fi/nexus-opas/)
Contact details: firstname.lastname@example.org
Publications: see SoleCris
Pauliina Alenius (PhD, Post-Doctoral Researcher)
Johanna Annala (PhD, Docent, University Lecturer)
Yuzhuo Cai (PhD, Docent, Senior lecturer, School of Management)
Expertise areas: Multiliteracy, curriculum, collaborative teaching and learning, teacher education.
Current research and activities in HET-group: Working with ongoing multiliteracy research, educational design research and teacher education research. Member of “spaces of education” team.
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Publications: see SoleCris
Tiina Kujala (PhD, Senior Lecturer)
Current research and activities in HET-group: Working with ongoing curriculum research, supervising theses. Member of the “curriculum and learning communities” team.
Additional information: Data available for theses: qualitative interviews on using technology in physical education, a model for content analysis in national core curriculum research, also quantitative data collected by Research Center for Sport and Health Sciences (LIKES in Jyväskylä). Ask for more information if you became interested.
Contact details: firstname.lastname@example.org, http://www.uta.fi/edu/yhteystiedot/henkilokunta/kujala.html
Publications: see SoleCris
Jyri Lindén (PhD, University Lecturer)
Expertise areas: Educational inheritance, social mobility, student engagement, narrative research.
Current research and activities in HET-group: Working on my doctoral dissertation “working class first generation university students in Finland”, team member in the “student experience and learning” team.
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Sirpa Mäkinen (PhD, University Lecturer)
Anne Tornberg (PhD Candidate)
Gaoming Zheng (MA of Research and Innovation in Higher Education (MARIHE) Programme, PhD Candidate, School of Management)
Expertise areas: Her main research area are doctoral education, internationalisation of higher education, quality assurance, EU-China collaboration and institutional theory.
Current activities and research in HET group: Member in the “internationalisation” team. Currently she is working on her doctoral research on quality assurance of doctoral education collaboration between Europe and China. She is also involved in a European-Commission-funded ‘Erasmus +’ project, the ‘EU-China-Doc Project’.
Contact details: Zheng.Gaoming.X@student.uta.fi
Expertise areas: Guidance and counselling, professional agency, expertise development, mixed method –research.
Current research and activities in HET-group: Working on my doctoral dissertation “The experience of professional agency and guidance expertise of the guidance counsellors in Finnish universities of applied science”, team member in the “student experience and learning” team.
Contact details: firstname.lastname@example.org
Expertise areas: Technology in Education, Technology Acceptance, Learning Motivation, Professional Development, Higher Education
Current research and activities in the HET -group: Member in “internationalisation” team. Working on my doctoral research “Investigating Cloud Computing Acceptance and Adoption at Tampere3 Universities”
Contact details: Al.Dahdouh.Tahani.Z@student.uta.fi
Expertise areas: student engagement, vocational upper secondary education
Current research and activities in HET-group: Working on my doctoral dissertation “student engagement in vocational education”, member of the “spaces of education” team.
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Expertise areas: Teacher education, induction of teaching
Current research and activities in HET-group: Professional learning of beginning teachers and pre-service teachers.
Member of the “spaces of education” team
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Contact details: Vesna.Holubek@uta.fi
Virva Törmälä (PhD Candidate)
Expertise areas: technology integration in primary school, multiliteracies related pedagogics, design-based educational research, new national core curriculum and transversal competence areas
Current research and activities in HET-group: Working on my doctoral dissertation “Multiliteracies within teaching contexts: ePortfolio in integrative Craft and Mother tongue education”, member of the “Spaces of education” team.
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