Tutkimuksen ja opetuksen kuvaus

I work as university lecturer in social work at University of Helsinki and as researcher in the following research projects: ReJustice - Linguistic justice, global migration and the Nordic welfare state, LIVICS - Identifying and counteracting language-based vulnerabilities in social work with children through the lens of professional discretion, SWORD - Social work dissertations in Finland 2007-2022. 

My research has concerned migrant families' encounters with social services and social work in Finland, linguistic diversity and vulnerability in Finnish social services, and the transnational migration of Latin American women in Spain. I have written, for example, on the role of public service interpreters in social work and social services, transnational care and family relations, transnational daughtering, and research ethics in qualitative research. 

During the academic year 2024–25, I teach courses on qualitative research methods, knowledge production in social work, and social work Master's thesis seminars. 

I am member of the Sosnet (Finnish National University Network for Social Work) committee on collaboration in research and doctoral training and co-editor of Social work research blog https://sosiaalityontiedeblogi.home.blog/.