Saarinen Taina, Director, research professor
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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, internationalisation of higher education, languages in higher education, education policy, language education policy, language policy, academic wellbeing.
Projects:
Crises, higher education leadership, and work: how can higher education institutions do better in crisis situations? (The Finnish Work Environment Fund, 2023-2024, PI)
Effects of employment during studies in higher education (VN TEAS 2022-2023, partner)
The politics and ideologies of multilingual writing (NOS HS Workshop 2021-2023, PI)
AHJO - Individual and organisatory development of Academic wellbeing (JYPE funding 2019-2022, PI)
Geographies of Internationalization (DFF, Independent Research Fund Denmark 2019-2022, 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)