People (the page is being updated)

If you work at Tampere University and you are interested to join TRANSIT, please contact Nelli Piattoeva (nelli.piattoeva@tuni.fi).

  • Alenius Pauliina, University Instructor (Faculty of Education and Culture)
    pauliina.alenius@tuni.fi, +358 50 3186993
    Migrants’ informal learning, transnational learning environments
  • Ameel Lieven, University Lecturer (Faculty of Social Sciences)
    lieven.ameel@tuni.fi, +358 40 190 1575
    Immigration, experiences in crisis and expulsions in literature
  • Bethwaite Julia, PhD Researcher (Faculty of Management and Business)
    julia.bethwaite@tuni.fi, +358 40 507 065
    The role of art in international relations, transnational space of art, non-state actors
  • Bäcklund Pia, Senior Researcher (Faculty of Management and Business)
    pia.backlund@tuni.fi, +358 40 190 4027
    Local political agency and networks of governance
  • Gurova Galina, Post-doctoral Researcher
    Education policy and transnational governance, comparative and international education, Russian education system and education policy
  • Harju-Autti Raisa, Doctoral Researcher (Faculty of Education and Culture)
    raisa.harju-autti@tuni.fi
    Multilingualism in basic education. Supporting multilingual pupils in Finnish upper comprehensive schools.
  • Huttunen LauraProfessor (Faculty of Social Sciences)
    laura.huttunen@tuni.fi, +358 50 318 6092
    Transnational anthropology, mobility and migration, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian diaspora,
  • Hyytiä Jaakko, Doctoral Researcher (Faculty of Education and Culture)
    jaakko.hyytia@tuni.fi
    Transnational migration, student migration, adult education
  • Häkli JouniProfessor (Faculty of Management and Business)
    jouni.hakli@tuni.fi, +358 40 1973664
    State and the spaces of political agency
  • Hölttä Seppo, Professor (Faculty of Management and Business)
    seppo.holtta@tuni.fi, +358 50 3221401
    Higher education policy and management, internationalisation of higher education
  • Imre Robert, Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Social Research (Faculty of Management and Business)
    robert.imre@tuni.fi, +358 50 318 7651
    Global terrorism, nationalism and ethnicity, Asia-Pacific politics, multiculturalism, citizenship, diversity, modernity
  • Joronen Mikko, Senior Researcher (Faculty of Management and Business)
    mikko.joronen@tuni.fi, +358 50 318 7174
    Political Ontology, Techniques of Government and Resistance in Israel/Palestine, Spaces of Exception and Precarity, Theory and philosophy of geography, Geographies of war and conflict
  • Juusola Henna, PhD Researcher (Faculty of Management and Business)
    Henna.Juusola@tuni.fi
    Quality in international education, globalization and transnational/cross-border higher education
  • Kaakinen Inka, Senior Researcher (Faculty of Management and Business)
    inka.kaakinen@tuni.fi, +358 50 318 7750
    Mapping undocumented lives
  • Kallio Kirsi Pauliina, Senior Researcher (Faculty of Management and Business)
    kirsipauliina.kallio@tuni.fi, +358 40 1904025
    Spatial socialisation and subject formation
  • Kallioniemi-Chambers Virve, Senior Planning Officer (Tampere University Doctoral School)
    virve.kallioniemi-chambers@tuni.fi, +358 50 318 6754
    EU project management, internal and external project communication
  • Karila Kirsti, Professor (Faculty of Education and Culture)
    kirsti.karila@tuni.fi, +358 50 396 9675
    Early chilhood education, ECE professionalism, ECE policies, partnership with parents, ECE institutions
  • Kauko Jaakko, Professor (Faculty of Education and Culture)
    jaakko.kauko@tuni.fi, +358 50 318 7788
    Dynamics in politics, socio-historical developments, questions of power, contingency, and complexity, comparative education theories and methodology
  • Keisala Katja, Post-doctoral Researcher (Faculty of Education and Culture)
    International relations, intercultural communication
    katja.keisala@tuni.fi, +358 50 318 7474
  • Kingumets Jaanika, PhD Researcher (Faculty Social Sciences)
    jaanika.kingumets@tuni.fi
    Transnationalism, Post-Soviet mobility, ethnographic research methods, anthropology of state, politics of home, emotional economy
  • Koivunen Pia, Post-doctoral Researcher (Faculty Social Sciences)
    pia.koivunen@tuni.fi
    World youth festivals, cultural Cold War mega-events and international public culture, youth and communism, performance
  • Korkiamäki Riikka, Post-doctoral researcher (Faculty of Social Sciences)
    riikka.korkiamaki@tuni.fi, +358 50 433 6299
    Communities and communality, peer relationships, friendship, early recognition, children and youth
  • Korpela Mari, Senior Research Fellow (Faculty of Social Sciences)
    mari.korpela@tuni.fi, +358 50 318 6131
    Transnationalism, temporary migration, anthropology of childhood, ‘third culture kids’, lifestyle migration, ethnographic research methods
  • Koskela Marja
    International recruitment, orientation training, transnational educational spaces
  • Kuusipalo Paula, PhD Researcher (Faculty of Education and Culture)
    paula.kuusipalo@tuni.fi, +358 50 3187 780
    Adult Education policies and practices, diversity, networks and relations
  • Kuusisto-Arponen Anna-Kaisa, Senior Research Fellow (Faculty of Management and Business)
    anna-kaisa.kuusisto@tuni.fi, +358 40 190 4019
    Political geography, forced displacement, migration, unaccompanied children and youths
  • Li Hanwei, Post-doctoral Researcher
    Transnationalism, Chinese student migration
  • Lind Sami, PhD Researcher (Faculty of Management and Business)
    Sami.Lind@tuni.fi
    Unemployment, everyday life and experience of place, the everyday spatiality of academic unemployed
  • Lindholm Carita, PhD Researcher (Faculty of Education and Culture)
    carita.lindholm@tuni.fi
    Career guidance, professionalism, education policy in Cambodia, NGOs in development cooperation
  • Matyska Anna, PhD Researcher (Faculty of Social Sciences)
    anna.matyska@tuni.fi, +358 50 318 6150
    Transnational anthropology and transnational families, polish migration, and communist and post-communist changes in Eastern Europe
  • Millei Zsuzsa, Associate Professor (Faculty of Education and Culture)
    zsuzsanna.millei@tuni.fi,+358 40 190 4031
    Child politics: nation, place-making and subjectivity
  • Niiranen Kaisa, PhD Researcher (Faculty of Education and Culture)
    kaisa.niiranen@tuni.fi
    Intercultural communication, migration, religions in the society
  • Niiranen Vuokko, Professor (University of Eastern Finland)
    vuokko.niiranen@uef.fi, +358 40 550 4801
    Social and health management for multicultural work communities, administration and steering models in social and health services, and state-municipality relations
  • Nuutinen Krista
    Promoting diversity and equality in the public and third sector organizations, implementing non-discrimination policies and action plans and providing education and training
  • Oinonen Eriikka, University Lecturer (Faculty of Social Sciences)
    eriikka.oinonen@tuni.fi, +358 50 318 6174
    Transition from youth to adulthood, family institution and cross-national comparative research
  • Palander Jaana, PhD Researcher (Faculty of Management and Business)
    jaana.palander@tuni.fi, +358 50 569 8096
    Public Law, Migration Law, Human Rights Law, Right to family reunification
  • Pascucci Elisa, Post-Doctoral Researcher (Faculty of Management and Business)
    elisa.pascucci@tuni.fi, +358 50 318 7386
    Refugees and the material politics of humanitarianism and migration
  • Peltoniemi Johanna, PhD Researcher (Faculty of Management and Business)
    johanna.peltoniemi@tuni.fi, +358 50 318 5964
    Transnational identities, emigrant voting behaviour, convenience voting, overseas constituencies, emigrants’ political representation, dual citizenship
  • Piattoeva Nelli, Associate Professor (Faculty of Education and Culture)
    nelli.piattoeva@tuni.fi, +358 40 190 1471
    Education policy and transnational governance, multicultural education, comparative and international education
  • Pienimäki Mari, Post-doctoral Researcher
    Media education and transcultural, multicultural youth work, supporting acculturation through media and art
  • Pitkänen Pirkko, Professor (Faculty of Education and Culture)
    pirkko.pitkanen@tuni.fi, +358 50 420 1536
    Transnational mobility, intercultural work, multicultural education
  • Rantanen Pekka, Researcher (Faculty of Social Sciences)
    Globalization, migration and labour, visual culture, nationalism
  • Ranta-Tyrkkö Satu, Post-doctoral Researcher (Faculty of Social Sciences)
    Eco-social work; social work in mining regions; voluntary/popular social work in India; postcolonial, translocal, international social work; etnographic research, future ethics,
  • Rastas Anna, Academy Research Fellow (Faculty of Social Sciences)
    anna.rastas@tuni.fi, +358 40 1909845
    African diasporas, racism and anti-racism, multiculturalism, racialized identities, transnational subjectivities, ethnographic and participatori research methods, epistemological challenges in research on minorities in multiethnic societies and in research on children and young people
  • Raunio Mika, Researcher (Faculty of Social Sciences)
    Global mobility of experts and highly-skilled, internationalisation of experts labour markets, global attractiveness of innovation environments, regional development and human resources
    mika.m.raunio@tuni.fi, +358 44 974 8337
  • Raunio Pirjo, Post-doctoral Researcher
    Finnish language and cultural trainings for migrants, pre-departure trainings, intercultural trainings in schools and various working places
  • Renkonen Taina, PhD Researcher (Faculty of Management and Business)
    taina.renkonen@tuni.fi
    Geopolitics and the body, encounters between border control and tourism
  • Rinne Eeva, PhD Researcher (Faculty of Management and Business)
    eeva.rinne@tuni.fi, +358 50 318 6407
    Multicultural world view as communicated by Finnish teaching materials and experienced by pupils
  • Rissanen Inkeri, University Lecturer (Faculty of Education and Culture)
    Multicultural education, Religious education, Islamic education, Muslim inclusion
    inkeri.rissanen@tuni.fi, +358 50 573 4884
  • Sainola-Rodrigues Kirsti, Post-doctoral Researcher
    Transnational competences
  • Saugmann Rune, Post-doctoral Researcher (Faculty of Management and Business)
    rune.saugmann@tuni.fi, +358 50 318 7614
    How digital visual media transforms security
  • Sipinen Josefina, PhD Researcher (Faculty of Management and Business)
    Political integration of immigrants in Finland
  • Sippola Aulikki, Post-doctoral Researcher (Faculty of Education and Culture)
    Diversity management, cross-cultural work, HRM of a diverse and multicultural workforce, inclusiveness and equality in the workplaces, accessibility of services and products
  • Stenvall Elina, PhD Researcher (Faculty of Management and Business)
    elina.stenvall@tuni.fi, +358 190 9795
    Children’s participation and spatial attachments
  • Takala Tuomas, Professor Emeritus (Faculty of Education and Culture)
    Comparative and international education, education policies in developing countries, development cooperation in South and East Africa and Southern Asia
  • Vaittinen Tiina, Researcher (Faculty of Social Sciences)
    tiina.vaittinen@tuni.fi, +358 40 190 9770
    Elder care, transnational migration, feminist political economy and migration studies, global political economy, Filipino nurse migration
  • Vartiainen Päivi,
    paivi.vartiainen@tuni.fi
    Nurse migration, cultural diversity in the social and health care work, intercultural learning and communication in work places
  • Vihmalo Kristiina, PhD Researcher student (Faculty of Management and Business)
    kristiina.vihmalo@tuni.fi, +358 40 190 4013
    The Finnish state institutions’ competitiveness and internationalization discourses
  • Virta Sirpa, Professor (Faculty of Management and Business)
    sirpa.virta@tuni.fi, +358 40 1904157
    Security management, strategic planning (especially local safety planning), policing research
  • Väyrynen Tarja, Professor (Faculty of Social Sciences)
    Peace studies, international relations
    tarja.vayrynen@tuni.fi, +358 40 190 4097
  • Yli-Jokipii Maija, University Instructor, PhD Researcher (Faculty of Education and Culture)
    maija.yli-jokipii@tuni.fi, +358 40 1901760
    Bi-/multilingual education, mother tongues of migrant pupils, mother tongue as the medium of education