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!

Office hour

Thursdays 12-13.30.

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

Join online guidance corner

Doctoral researchers 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 upcoming online guidance corner during spring 2025 are: 15.1., 12.2. and 11.3.
Online meeting starts at 1 PM and ends 2 PM:

The dates and times represent local Finnish time.

Join us:

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Meeting ID: 349 062 874 239

Passcode: PgWsYC

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 7.5.
The meeting starts at 1 PM and ends at 3 PM.

Junior researcher

Auni Haapala

• research towards a dissertation
  

auni.haapala(at)ulapland.fi

Haapala'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 >

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

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 >

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

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 1.8.2023-31.7.2024

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: 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