Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
I work currently as university lecturer in social work at University of Helsinki and postdoctoral researcher at Åbo Akademi. I am involved as a researcher in the following research projects: MigraFam - Ordering the migrant family: Power asymmetries and citizenisation in restructuring welfare bureaucracies (2017–2023); SOSKIELI - Language diversity and vulnerability in social work in the era of digitalisation (2021–2023); Interpreting in Social Services - Professional expertise in the multilingual landscape of welfare service work (2021–2022). In my dissertation (2016), I studied Latin American women’s transnational migration in Spain from the perspectives of transnational family relations, intersectionality, (in)visibility, belonging, and time. In have taught qualitative research methods and research ethics at Bachelor's and Master's levels. During the academic year 2022–23, I teach the following courses: Knowledge and conceptions of knowledge in social work; Master's seminar.
Fields of Science
- 5145 Social work
- Transnational migration
- Transnational family
- Multilingual social services
- Intersectionality
- Belonging
- (In)visibility
- Time and temporality
- Participative research methods
- Ethics in qualitative research
- Multilingual research
- Arts-based research
- Arts-based teaching
- Latin American Studies
- Postcolonialism
International and National Collaboration
Publications and projects within past five years.
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Vieraskielisten lapsiperheiden vanhempien kuvaukset kuormittavista tekijöistä ja selviytymiskeinoista COVID-19-pandemian aiheuttamien poikkeusolojen aikana
Heino, E., Kara, H. & Jäppinen, M., Feb 2023, SOSIAALITYÖ KRIISEISSÄ JA POIKKEUKSELLISISSA OLOSUHTEISSA. JyväskyläResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Master’s-level social work students’ definitions of intersectionality in relation to social work practice in Finland
Heino, E., Kara, H., Tarkiainen, L. & Tapola-Haapala, M., 11 Oct 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nordic Social Work Research. 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Students’ learning reflections when using works of fiction in social work education
Tarkiainen, L., Heino, E., Tapola-Haapala, M. & Kara, H., 2022, In: Journal of Social Work Education. 41, 8, p. 1722-1734 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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The ethical performance of access and consent in ethnographic research on social work encounters with migrant-background service users
Kara, H., Jäppinen, M., Nordberg, C. & Riitaoja, A-L., 21 Apr 2022, In: Qualitative Social Work. 16 p., 14733250221088421.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Unfolding occupational boundary work: Public service interpreting in social services for structurally vulnerable migrant populations in Finland
Nordberg, C. & Kara, H., 2022, In: Just: Journal of Language Rights & Minorities = revista de drets lingüístics i minories. 1, 1-2, p. 137-162 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
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SOSKIELI: Monikielisyys ja kielellinen haavoittuvuus sosiaalityön digitalisoituvilla kentillä
Nordberg, C., Kulmala, M., Granholm, C., Heino, E., Kara, H., Olakivi, A., Lassila, A. & Merikoski, P.
01/07/2021 → 31/12/2023
Project: Research project
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Ordering the "Migrant Family": Power Asymmetry Work and Citizenization in Restructuring Welfare Professional Bureaucracies
Nordberg, C., Jäppinen, M., Kara, H. & Riitaoja, A.
01/09/2017 → 31/12/2023
Project: Research project
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Taide! Kaunokirjallisuus sosiaalityön opetuksessa
Heino, E., Tapola-Haapala, M., Tarkiainen, L. & Kara, H.
01/10/2016 → …
Project: Research project
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Interpreting in Social Services - Professional expertise in the multilingual landscape of welfare service work in Finland
01/01/2021 → 31/12/2022
Project: Research project
Prizes
Activities
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SOSNET (External organisation)
Hanna Kara (Chair)
2023 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership or other role in national/international committee, council, board
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Monikielisyys ja kielellinen haavoittuvuus sosiaalityön digitalisoituvilla kentillä (SOSKIELI)
Camilla Nordberg (Speaker), Hanna Kara (Speaker) & Meri Kulmala (Speaker)
8 Feb 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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SOSNET (External organisation)
Hanna Kara (Chair)
1 Jan 2022 → 31 Dec 2022Activity: Membership types › Membership or other role in national/international committee, council, board
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Intersektionaalisuudesta
Hanna Kara (Speaker)
7 Nov 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Vieraskielisten lapsiperheiden vanhempien kuvaukset kuormittavista tekijöistä ja selviytymiskeinoista COVID-19 pandemiaa seuranneiden poikkeusolojen aikana
Hanna Kara (Speaker), Eveliina Heino (Speaker) & Maija Jäppinen (Speaker)
17 Feb 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation