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RESEARCH

From 2024 to 2028 I will be working as Academy Research Fellow on wastewater as health data flow. Through viewpoint of datafication and surveillance the project studies what kind of data about the society wastewater is and what does its growing use mean for our societies. 

In 2024 I worked as a university researcher in a project: "Designing Inclusive & Trustworthy Digital Public Services for Migrants in Finland (Trust-M)", focusing especially on life event based digitalisation and the related policies. In 2021-2023 I worked in an interdisciplinary research project "Data Literacy for Responsible Decision-Making (DATALIT)". I concentrated on the founding of national quality registers from the viewpoint of data literacy.

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 a new IT-system in a Finnish hospital district.

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, qualitative methods 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.