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 taught STS for both doctoral and master's students as well as bachelor's students. I also teach sociology 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 → 30 Sep 2021
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Other contribution
Research output: Other contribution
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Snell, K., Tupasela, A., Salokannel, M., Tarkkala, H., Honkela, A., Tajeddine, R., Jacucci, G., He, C., Valaste, M., Rusanen, A. & Ylikoski, P. K.
01/10/2020 → 30/09/2023
Project: Research project
01/07/2015 → 30/06/2019
Project: Research project
Tuunainen, J. & Tarkkala, H.
01/01/2012 → 31/12/2014
Project: Research project
Heta Tarkkala (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Annerose Böhrer (Speaker), Heta Tarkkala (Speaker) & Marie-Kristin Döbler (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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 › Invited talk
Heta Tarkkala (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts