Nokkala Terhi, research professor
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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2381-7825
Converis: https://converis.jyu.fi/converis/portal/Person/4638894
Educational systems and society research area
Higher education studies (HIEST) research team
Areas of expertise
Dr Terhi Nokkala is a Research Professor at the Finnish Institute for Educational Research (FIER), University of Jyväskylä and an Adjunct Professor of Higher Education Administration at the Faculty of Management, University of Tampere. Her research focuses on the interplay between higher education policy, technological developments, organizational parameters and networks, and individual experiences in higher education, with a specific interest in comparative methodology and discourse analysis. Recently she has also addressed questions of sustainability in education.
Terhi Nokkala has editorial duties in journals Higher Education and Internationalisation of Higher education – Policy and Practice. Her previous editorial duties include the Springer Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions, the European Journal of Higher Education and the Journal for the Study of Postsecondary and Tertiary Education. Nokkala completed her PhD at the University of Tampere in 2007. She has worked as a Postdoc at the University of Surrey, and as a visiting researcher at the University of Twente, University of Bristol and the Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna.
Research projects
- Horizon2020 -project ECF4CLIM - European Competence Framework for Climate Change and Sustainable Development
- Exiting Academics in a Networked Knowledge Society (EANKS) (2016-2020)
- Researcher Skills and Growing as a Researcher - Peer mentoring pilot for PhD studens (2017-2018)
- The Evaluation of the four-stage career model in Finnish universities (2015)
- The Careers and Recruitment in Universities (2015-2016)
- Research Groups, Networking and the Knowledge Society (REGNETS) (2011-2014)
- Networking and career strategies of early career female scholars (2012-2014)
- Change in Networks, Higher Education and Knowledge Societies (CINHEKS) (2009-2012)
- Autonomy Scorecard (2009-2011)