As a Senior Researcher and Project Manager, I coordinate the FinTED project (Finnish Teacher Education Database). FinTED is a project coordinated by the Department of Education at the University of Turku. FinTED is a research infrastructure in the development process. It is a dynamic national database for teacher education, which will be constructed and implemented through extensive national collaboration between higher education institutions.

As a research and product development specialist at BeanBakers, I am producing research and training services for companies, groups, and individuals. My main goal is to find the best possible ways of implementing a meaningful and valid research process for our customers. My responsibilities at BeanBakers are as follows: providing implementation and support in research projects, developing pieces of training, HR administration.

This post included coordinating the Ministry of Education funded OHO!-project which supported the wellbeing, the ability to study, and the sense of community of higher education students in Finland.During the project a survey research among higher education students, teachers, and rectors was conducted. The topic of the survey was the accessibility of higher education. From the basis of survey results, accessibility criteria were created among the higher education actors to provide an evaluation tool for higher education institutions. My responsibilities consisted of conducting, analysing and reporting survey data, planning educational material for higher education teaching staff and providing consultancy for colleagues about accessibility issues. I was also budgeting, networking, and collaborating with several stakeholders.

Along with my Ph.D. research (about the concept of identification among the university teachers), I had substantial lecturing and teaching responsibility and several administrative duties, including educational planning and human resources management. I worked as a member of the research group concentrating on the topic of higher education teaching and teachers.

I was working on several different research projects from the fields of educational and social sciences. My duties consisted of gathering and analyzing research data (questionnaire and interview), reporting the results in scientific publications, and presenting the results in scientific conferences.