Management group

About me

Adjunct Professor in social work, University of Jyväskylä 

Field of expertise

Substance abuse and its treatment
Treatment effectiveness
Recovery, especially spontaneous recovery
Client's self-efficacy expectations and expectations towards treatment
Working alliance
Client's and therapist's gender, impact on client-therapist relationship
Quantitative, qualitative and triangulative research methods
University pedagogy, especially web-based learning, guidance, assessment

Research topics

social work: substance abuse treatment, therapists, clients, treatment effectiveness, recovery, social work with adults, therapeutic social work, legal issues
university pedagogy: web-based learning, blended learning, guidance, assessment

Research unit

Faculty of Social Sciences, social work, Tampere University

Research fields

social work, social sciences, psychotherapy, psychology, university pedagogy

About me

Doctor of Administrative Sciences, postdoctoral research fellow and TRANSFORM-research platform network director, Faculty of Management and Business, University of Tampere, Finland. Leponiemi works as a researcher and her research areas are public administration, organization, and development of public services. She is interested in how public services could be organized efficiently and effectively, taking into account local decision-making and municipal residents. In addition, Leponiemi works as a network director on the TRANSFORM research platform, whose task is to increase understanding of the development needs of the welfare sector and create conditions for better decision-making.