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TRANSIT

The Research Centre on Transnationalism and Transformation

Visiting Fellows

The Research Centre on Transnationalism and Transformation is inviting visiting fellows for a full-time (in-person) research stay at the Tampere University.

The visiting fellow programme is intended for advanced academics (advanced Ph.D stage, post-doctoral researchers, or senior academics) with external funding.

The TRANSIT visiting fellows will be offered:

  • An office space
  • An opportunity to network and build connections with the research community/ies at the Tampere University
  • A chance to conduct and present their research and receive feedback from the interdisciplinary research community

As the TRANSIT Research Centre is an interdisciplinary Collaboratory connecting three faculties, the visiting fellow will be hosted by one of the TRANSIT faculties: the Faculty of Education and Culture, the Faculty of Management and Business or the Faculty of Social Sciences.

We welcome applications from scholars with related research themes to TRANSIT’s.

TRANSIT’s working language is English.

We are flexible in the timing and length of the stay. The application period is continuous.

How to apply

The required application documents are:

A two-page motivation letter including:

  • your plan and aim for the research visit in TRANSIT
  • how your research relates to the themes of TRANSIT
  • which faculty and who are you especially interested to work/collaborate with
  • what funding do you have or are planning to apply in order to support your visit? 

Curriculum Vitae (CV, max 4 pages)

Send your application documents via email to the Director of TRANSIT, Nelli Piattoeva (nelli.piattoeva@tuni.fi)

As the application period is continuous, you can submit your application at any time. Please note, that reviewing your application might take approximately 4 weeks.

TRANSIT Visiting Fellows

Jitka Wirthová, 2026 –2027

Jitka Wirthová isProfile picture of Jitka Wirthová an assistant professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Czechia. She focuses on the social and topological aspects of agency. Working in the sociology of agency and its relational, processual, and topological ontologies, she interlinks them with relational philosophy and artistic interventions. In her research, she scrutinises various initiatives aiming at societal change, ranging from educational, technological, to expert, and policy solutionisms.

During her visit in TRANSIT, Jitka will work on the The InfrAgent project, which explores the possibilities of sociological inquiry into human agency within current digital infrastructures. The InfrAgent project focuses on the social and topological dimensions of human action and develops an innovative approach to analyse how human agency is imagined, assumed, attracted and newly created in an effort to build infrastructure and renew education at national and European levels.

Maija Salokangas, Academic year 2025–2026

Profile picture of Maija SalokangasMaija Salokangas is an Associate Professor and a Co-director at the Center of Public Education and Pedagogy (CPEP) at Maynooth University in Ireland.  

See Maija Salokangas’ research profile

The aim of Maija’s visit is to strengthen the collaboration between TRANSIT and CPEP and to plan future activities through joint funding bids, visiting schemes on the theme of educational policy and educational export. 

Katja Brøgger, Academic year 2023–2024

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Foto: Thomas Arnbo

Katja Brøgger is an Associate Professor in education policy and governance at the Department of Education Science at Aarhus University in Denmark. Katja’s research area covers geopolitical, European, and national conditions for universities in Europe.    

See Katja Brøgger’s researcher profile here

Katja Brøgger’s visit with TRANSIT included an international TRANSIT workshop “Methodologies of research on nationalism in education: critical and interdisciplinary perspectives” as part of the “Collaboratory of nationalism in education” and a public seminar and workshop “Slow science and academic freedom” also involving researchers from the Centre for Social Sciences (Budapest, Hungary).   

Iveta Silova, Fall 2023

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Iveta Silova is Professor and Associate Dean of Global Engagement at Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation at Arizona State University in the United States. Iveta’s research explores education in relation to planetary futures, post-socialist and decolonial perspectives, and the geopolitical and ecological conditions shaping education systems globally.

See Iveta Silova’s researcher profile here

Iveta Silova visited TRANSIT as a Fulbright Scholar in the fall of 2023. Her visit explored the role of education in the Anthropocene, (post)socialist and decolonial perspectives in comparative education and international development, and relational approaches to knowledge and governance. During her time at TRANSIT, she engaged in critical discussions on nationalism, academic freedom, and the role of universities in times of democratic and ecological crises, contributing to collective efforts to rethink education’s ethical and political responsibilities amid deepening geopolitical uncertainty and planetary transformation.