People

• Developing digital pedagogics project (2020-2021)
• e-Training FinPal (March 2017- May 2020)

• Tampere IAS Blog: The Upside of Down: How Negative Emotions Shaped My Personal Growth
• “Education has always been a source of hope and resilience for all Palestinians”: Interview with Tahani Al Dahdouh for the OLIVE Project (Part 1)
• “As long as we have the faith, the desire and the resilience”: Interview with Tahani Al Dahdouh for the OLIVE Project (Part 2)
• TLC Blog: Have you participated in pedagogical training?
• SKR Blog: Teachers develop their teaching and learning skills also in distressed situations

• Enhancing higher education teachers' teaching processes and well-being
• Skills, Education and the Future of Work (Taidot työhön)

• Professional Growth and Learning -research group

• EDU-LAB European youth in education and in transition to the labour market

• REALMEE Regulation of learning and active learning methods in the context of engineering education

• Choral Academy
• Towards E-Coaching
• Talent Traction: Co-Creating Multicultural Workplace

• LEAD - Leading multilocational work: Challenges and solutions (2024–2025)
• TeC@ses - Strengthening vocational educators for the digital era (2023–2026)
• THEwellbeing – Enhancing higher education teachers' teaching processes and well-being (2022–2026)
• HYBRIDI – Hybrid work of experts (2022–2023)
• CoOL@Work – Continuous opportunities for learning at work (2020–2022)
• WORKEE – Emotions and development of expertise in the workplace (2019–2020)

Selected publications

• Puhakka, I., Nokelainen, P., Vuorenpää, V., Rämö, J., Kangaslampi, R., Kaarakka, T., Viro, E., Hirvonen, J., & Ali-Löytty, S. (in press). Student-centred teaching and basic psychological need satisfaction in higher education: Longitudinal evidence from flipped and lecture-based engineering mathematics courses. Active Learning in Higher Education.
• Puhakka, I., Nokelainen, P., & Pylväs, L. (2026). Perceived competence development in daily work tasks: Associations with emotional valence, emotional arousal, and electrodermal activity. Vocations and Learning, 19, Article 17.
• Puhakka, I., Lehtonen, E., Ruokolainen, M., & Nokelainen, P. (2026). Remote but close – A handbook for developing leadership of multilocational work. A research-based training intervention model and toolbox. Tampere University.
• Puhakka, I., Nokelainen, P., & Lehtonen, E. (2025). Remote work intensity in knowledge work: Associations with informal workplace learning, basic psychological needs satisfaction, job satisfaction, and turnover intention. Vocations and Learning, 18, Article 23.
• Puhakka, I., Niemivirta, M., Postareff, L., & Nokelainen, P. (2025). A person-centered study of construction sector employees’ goal orientation profiles and their connections to approaches to learning, self-efficacy, and work engagement. Vocations and Learning, 18, Article 4.
• Puhakka, I., Lehtonen, E., & Nokelainen, P. (2023). Hybrid work of experts. Final report. Tampere University.
• Puhakka, I., Nokelainen, P., & Pylväs, L. (2021). Learning or leaving? Individual and environmental factors related to job satisfaction and turnover intention. Vocations and Learning, 14(3), 481–510.
• Puhakka, I., & Peltola, M. J. (2020). Salivary cortisol reactivity to psychological stressors in infancy: A meta-analysis. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 115, Article 104603.

• Research group web pages

• Leading multilocational work: Challenges and solutions (2024-2025)
• HYBRIDI - Hybrid work of experts (2022-2023)
• WORKEE – Emotions and development of expertise in the workplace (2019-2020)
• The Next Move 2 (NeMo2) - Vocational expertise, working life skills, and workplaces as learning environments in the context of apprenticeship education (2017-2019)
• Next Move (NeMo) - Apprenticeships and changing skills requirements (2014-2016)

• Lehtonen, E., Nokelainen, P., Rintala, H., & Puhakka, I. (2022). Thriving or surviving at work : how workplace learning opportunities and subjective career success are connected with job satisfaction and turnover intention? Journal of Workplace Learning, 34(1), 88–109. 10.1108/JWL-12-2020-0184 
• Lehtonen, E., Puhakka, I., Pylväs, L. & Nokelainen, P. (2020). Emotions and development of expertise in the workplace [in Finnish], Final report, Tampere University.
• Lehtonen, E., Rintala, H., Pylväs, L., & Nokelainen, P. (2018). Ammatillisten opettajien näkemyksiä opettajan työssä tarvittavasta kompetenssista ja työelämäyhteistyöstä. Ammattikasvatuksen aikakauskirja, 20(4), 10-26. https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/126716