Contact us

Visiting address: Yliopistonkatu 8, Rovaniemi

Postal address: University of Lapland, Doctoral School, P.O. Box 122, FI-96101 Rovaniemi, Finland
Tel. +358(0)341341 (telephone exchange)

www.ulapland.fi/doctoral

Email: tutkijakoulu (at) ulapland.fi

Messages regarding course credits to teaching and learning services:
tohtoriohjelma (at) ulapland.fi

ULapland doctoral candidates have their own Facebook group. Send a Join request!

Ask online

Doctoral candidates or others interested in doctoral studies can sign in through the link below and ask about the Doctoral School’s courses or other matters related to PhD studies. Naturally, you can always contact us by e-mail: tutkijakoulu(at)ulapland.fi.

The time slots for the Doctoral School's upcoming online office hours during the autumn semester will be updated.

The dates and times represent local Finnish time.

You can join the online office at the aforementioned times via this browser link: https://eoppimispalvelut.zoom.us/j/63960278024

If you're using the Zoom app, please insert this meeting ID to join: 639 6027 8024

Junior researcher

Auni Haapala

• research towards a dissertation
  

auni.haapala(at)ulapland.fi

Haapala's research profile >

Researcher

Mari Karhu

•research towards a dissertation

mari.karhu(at)ulapland.fi

Karhu's research profile >

Junior researcher Heidi Konttinen

• research towards a dissertation

heidi.konttinen(at)ulapland.fi

Konttinen´s research profile >

Researcher

•research towards a dissertation

juho.kahkonen(at)ulapland.fi

Kähkönen's research profile >

Researcher

•research towards a dissertation

teemu.loikkanen(at)ulapland.fi

Loikkanen's research profile >

Junior researcher Salla Pasula

• research towards a dissertation
  

salla.pasula(at)ulapland.fi
Tel. +358(0)40 514 6094

Pasula's research profile >

Junior researcher

Noor Punam

•research towards a dissertation

noor.punam(at)ulapland.fi

Punam's research profile >

Junior researcher Karolina Sikora

• research towards a dissertation
  

karolina.sikora(at)ulapland.fi

Sikora's research profile >

Junior researcher

Krittika Singh

•research towards a dissertation

krittika.singh(at)ulapland.fi

Singh's research profile >

Junior researcher

•research towards a dissertation

Vinkka's research profile >

Director of the Doctoral School

Vice-rector responsible for research

Soili Nystén-Haarala

• leads the Doctoral School 
  

Nystén-Haarala's research profile >

Coordinator of the Doctoral School

Annukka Jakkula

• on leave of absence 1.8.2023-31.7.2024

Specialist

Hanna Peltomaa

• ULapland representative in the national doctoral training network
  
• doctoral training development tasks
• secretary for the steering board of doctoral education
• secretary of research development committee (TUKERY)
• research integrity advisor
  
  hanna.peltomaa (at) ulapland.fi
  P. +358 40 659 8054

Organisation of doctoral education at the University of Lapland

At the University of Lapland, doctoral studies can be completed in four faculties in the fields of education, law, social sciences, and art and design. Faculties grant doctoral study rights and doctoral degrees. Doctoral researchers at the University of Lapland belong to one of the faculties, and in addition, to one of the two doctoral programs.

The doctoral school of the University of Lapland supports the university's faculties in organizing researcher training. The doctoral school is led by the vice-rector responsible for research, according to the division of duties between the rectors. Researcher education at the University of Lapland, including doctoral programs and doctoral school, operate under the guidance of the steering board for the university's doctoral education.

Steering board of doctoral education

The University of Lapland steering board of doctoral education develops, coordinates and aligns common principles and processes regarding education leading to a doctoral degree at the university level, based on national and European principles and standards guiding doctoral education. The board takes care of the entirety of researcher training, good practices and quality and, if necessary, clarifies the division of labor and responsibility issues between the doctoral school, faculties and other actors. If necessary, the board assembles task-specific work groups to take care of, for example, doctoral program recruitments, curriculum work and feedback processing.

The tasks of the steering board are:

1) coordinate and steer the Activities of the Arctic in a Changing World -doctoral program and discipline-specific doctoral program
2) develop and unify the university's doctoral training planning, implementation, monitoring and quality management

The members of the steering board

Pigga Keskitalo, professor (Faculty of Education)
Mauri Ylä-Kotola, professor (Faculty of Art and Design)
Rene Urueña, professor (Faculty of Law)
Julian Reid, professor (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Florian Stammler, research professor (Arctic Centre) 

representative of doctoral researchers: Siiri Paananen (2023-2024)

Deputy members

Ilkka Ratinen, professor (Faculty of Education)
Mari Mäkiranta, university lecturer (Faculty of Art and Design)
Tomi Tuominen, university lecturer (Faculty of Law)
Tapio Nykänen, university lecturer (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Kamrul Hossain, research professor (Arctic Centre)