Satu Venäläinen

I currently work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, discipline of social psychology. My research interests include gender, sexual harassment, intersectionality, violence, identities, and affects. Theoretically and methodologically I am interested in social constructionism, discourse analysis, feminist discursive psychologies, poststructural theory, affect theory, and creative research methodologies in qualitative research. My current research project is entitled "Young people and sexual harassment: meanings and intersectional negotiations in diversifying socio-cultural contexts". 

I have taught courses and held lectures specifically focused on qualitative and discursive methods, social constructionism and social construction of knowledge, gender and social psychology, and academic writing, in addition to which I have taught bachelor’s and master’s thesis seminars. I worked as a university lecturer in social psychology for the academic year 2019-2020.

During the academic year 2020-2021 I teach Master’s Programme in Contemporary Societies’ course COS-SP308 Gender and Social psychology and SOSK-SP220: The bachelor’s thesis seminar in social psychology. I also supervise master's and PhD theses in social psychology.