Research output per year
Research output per year
PL 18 (Unioninkatu 35)
00014
Finland
Research activity per year
RESEARCH
I am currently working in an interdisciplinary research project "Data Literacy for Responsible Decision-Making (DATALIT)". The starting point of the project is the idea that data literacy consists of understanding what data is and the key socio-legal-technical issues related to it. This is a basis for ethical and evidence-based decision-making. In this project, we analyse the key ethical concepts – like privacy – in different technical, social, and legal contexts and explore how public authorities can employ data in socially sustainable ways.
In 2020 I worked as a post doc researcher in the project “Data driven society in the making” at the University of Eastern Finland. The project studied implementation of data-driven practices, learning algorithms and artificial intelligence in health care and social services.
My PhD-project, completed in 2019, provides knowledge of the ways how biomedical research, and thus knowledge production, is reorganized through biobanks. I have asked: What kind of knowledge production do biobanks promote and how. I have paid attention to the different ways biobank samples are seen to matter for biomedical research and development: first, through their “high quality”, second, through their “Finnishness” and third, through the expected realization of translational medicine.
My other recent projects have been “Good(s) for Health – Personalized health services and flexible appropriation of bioinformation”. In this project I concentrated on the novel objects of biomedicine and biomedical innovation and collaborative science.
TEACHING
I am qualified teacher and during the past years I have been teaching sociology and STS for both doctoral and master's students as well as bachelor's students. I have also taught at the Open University of the University of Helsinki. Over the years I have also been responsible for course coordination, literature seminars, and served as visiting lecturer in sociology.
Sociology, Doctor of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki
Award Date: 23 May 2019
Post Doctoral Researcher, University of Eastern Finland
1 Jan 2020 → 31 Dec 2020
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Professional
Research output: Other contribution
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Honkela, A., Jacucci, G., Salokannel, M., Ylikoski, P. K., He, C., Rusanen, A., Snell, K., Tajeddine, R., Tarkkala, H., Tupasela, A., Valaste, M., Ignatius, J. E., Lakso, M. M., Mäki, M., Salokannel, M., Savolainen, A. E., Snell, K., Tarkkala, H., Tupasela, A. & Vesikukka, T.
SUOMEN AKATEMIA Vähäkylä Leena
01/10/2020 → 30/09/2023
Project: Academy of Finland: Strategic Research Coundil funding (SRC)
01/07/2015 → 30/06/2019
Project: Research project
Tuunainen, J. & Tarkkala, H.
01/01/2012 → 31/12/2014
Project: Research project
Heta Tarkkala (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts
Heta Tarkkala (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts
Heta Tarkkala (Speaker) & Karoliina Snell (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Heta Tarkkala (Speaker) & Karoliina Snell (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Heta Tarkkala (Speaker) & Karoliina Snell (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation