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!

Thursday meeting hour

See you again in the autumn!

Come and meet us and other doctoral researchers face-to-face. Our offices are at the E-wing, 1. floor.

Come to the Guidance Corner

We are also participating in the Guidance Corner, where you can come and talk with us. The Guidance Corner will be held at F-Hub (F-wing, 1st floor, next to Petronella). In addition to guidance, coffee, tea, and snacks will be available.

Spring 2025 meetings: 29.1., 26.2., 26.3. and 14.5.
The meeting starts at 1 PM and ends at 2 PM.

Researcher

Auni Haapala

• research towards a dissertation
  

auni.haapala(at)ulapland.fi

Haapala's research profile >

Researcher

•research towards a dissertation

juho.kahkonen(at)ulapland.fi

Kähkönen's research profile >

Researcher

Krittika Singh

•research towards a dissertation

krittika.singh(at)ulapland.fi

Singh's research profile >

Researcher

•research towards a dissertation

Vinkka's research profile >

Director of the Doctoral School

Vice-rector responsible for research

Sari Lindblom

sari.lindblom(at)ulapland.fi

Specialist

Hanna Peltomaa

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

Substitute Coordinator of the Doctoral School

Janne Väätäjä

• multidisciplinary and thematic doctoral programme study coordination
  
  janne.vaataja (at) ulapland.fi
  P. +358 40 484 4259

Postdoctoral researcher

Katri-Maria Järvinen

• Coordination of the DocSoc390° doctoral education pilot

katri-maria.jarvinen (at) ulapland.fi

Coordinator of the Doctoral School

Annukka Jakkula

• on leave of absence 1.8.2023-31.7.2026

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

Chair: Vice rector for research Sari Lindblom

Jaana Erkkilä-Hill, professor (Faculty of Art and Design)
Pigga Keskitalo, professor (Faculty of Education)
Tomi Tuominen, univ. lecturer (Faculty of Law)
Anu Valtonen, vice-dean (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Florian Stammler, research professor (Arctic Centre) 

representative of doctoral researchers: Jaana Kovalainen (2025)

Deputy members

Ilkka Ratinen, dean (Faculty of Education)
Jukka Kiviniemi, university lecturer (Faculty of Art and Design)
Sirja-Leena Penttinen, associate professor (Faculty of Law)
Janne Autto, associate professor (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Kamrul Hossain, research professor (Arctic Centre)
Cristina Obae, doctoral researchers