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Research group directors

Mika Kautonen

Senior Research Fellow
innovaatiojärjestelmät ja innovaatiotoiminnan tutkimus
Faculty of Social Sciences
Tampere University
+358503186116
+358405519282
mika.kautonen@tuni.fi

Oili-Helena Ylijoki

Senior Researcher
Faculty of Social Sciences
Tampere University
+358503186244
oili-helena.ylijoki@tuni.fi

About me

I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Knowledge, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (TaSTI) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, and an Adjunct Professor of social pscychology at Tampere University. I teach in the field of science and technology studies.

Research topics

Academic identities and careers, disciplinary cultures, temporal acceleration, women and science

Research unit

TaSTI

Research fields

Science studies, higher education studies, time studies, social psychology

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Selected publications

Ylijoki, O.-H. (2019) Happy in academia: the perspective of the academic elite. In Cannizzo, F. & Osbaldiston, n. (eds.) The Social Structures of Global Academia. London: Routledge.

Ylijoki, O.-H. & Henriksson, L. (2018) Tribal, proletarian and entrepreneurial career stories: junior academics as a case in point. Studies in Higher Education 42, 7, 1292-1308.

Ylijoki, O.-H. (2016) Projectification and conflicting temporalities in academic knowledge production. Theory of Science 38, 1, 7-26.

Ylijoki, O.-H. (2015) Conquered by project time? Conflicting temporalities in university research. In Gibbs, P., Ylijoki, O.-H., Guzmán-Valenzuela, C. & Barnett, R. (eds.) Universities in the Flux of Time. An exploration of time and temporality in university life. London: Routledge.