Saarinen Taina, Director, Research professor
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Orcid:0000-002-5117-2756
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Educational systems and society research area
Higher Education Studies (HIEST) research team
Director
As the director of the Finnish Institute for Educational Research I aim to support my colleagues to reach our jointly agreed goals and to find ways to conduct societally and academically interesting and relevant research.
Research areas
Higher education policy, internationalization of higher education, languages in higher education, education policy, language education policy, language policy, academic well-being.
Latest blog
Complex problems and simple solutions – education is a hot topic in the run-up to the elections
Projects
Effects of employment during studies in higher education (VN TEAS 2022-2024, partner)
The politics and ideologies of multilingual writing (NOS HS Workshop 2021-2024, PI)
AHJO - Individual and organisatory development of Academic well-being (JYPE funding 2019-2022, PI)
Geographies of Internationalization (DFF, Independent Research Fund Denmark 2019-2024, partner)
Previous projects:
Socially just higher education in new nationalist Finland (Jyväskylän yliopisto, professor's starting grant 2020-2021 and the Association of Finnish Non-fiction Writers, , PI)
Times, spaces and discursive cycles of Finnish constitutional bilingualism: universities as sites of neo-nationalist language policies (Swedish Cultural Foundation 2018-2020, PI)
Language policy as Wibbly-Wobbly. Towards an understanding of multi-sited and situated language policy in higher education (Jyväskylän yliopisto 2014-2015, PI)
Internationalization and the invisible language? A language perspective into the Finnish higher education internationalization policy (Academy of Finland 2011-2013, PI)
Additional information
Publications since 2002 (Converis register)
Older publications (before 2002)