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Events and public defences

Events and public defences
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    Doctoral dissertation: Ageing and Gender in the Nordic Arctic

    4.1.2019 11:06


    LLM Shahnaj Begum’s doctoral thesis explores how ageing and gender in the Nordic Arctic interact with equality and social justice.

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    Dissertation: Ethical agency in higher education and the challenges of structural development

    14.12.2018 10:14


    In her doctoral study Hannele Keränen, MEc, examines the fusion of two Finnish universities of applied sciences through the viewpoint of ethical agency. The paper belongs to the field of management and organisation studies.

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    Doctoral defence: Qualities of Simplicity in Designing Interactive Art

    30.11.2018 14:00


    Tomi Knuutila’s (M.A. Arts and Design) doctoral dissertation entitled Qualities of Simplicity in Designing Interactive Art belongs to the field of interactive design. It contributes new knowledge about user and design experience of interactive art through practice-led design research.

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    Doctoral dissertation: Total festival experience

    22.11.2018 15:31


    Maarit Kinnunen’s article-based dissertation constructs a model for total festival experience.

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    Doctoral dissertation. Narrative Spaces: On identity work and placeness through arts-based narrative practices

    6.11.2018 11:06


    The challenge brought to the forefront of arts-based research in human contexts is to value and constantly re-examine the relationship between the storyteller and the listener, and between the knower and the knowledge. Daria Akimenko’s study attempts at mapping a research field where the complexity of identities, narratives, contexts, places, and practices is embraced rather than simplified. It employs arts-based and reflexive approaches to research, working in a landscape of six global communities of place and practice and aiming at academic, artistic and general public audiences.

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    Doctoral defense: Making the voice of visual journalists in news websites

    2.11.2018 14:00


    Yiyun Zha’s doctoral thesis suggests how the practices of visual journalism are varied due to significant media alterations in recent years. Therefore, it focuses on how design professionalism can be understood in news websites and how in-house visual journalists’ work and organizational cultures change in the process of visual transmediation. The common ground of the different findings of this research is that media facilitation and media convergence has an enormous influence on the visual information structure as well as visual practitioners’ daily routines and practices.

  • Doctoral thesis: The European Union seal regime disregards a science-based approach

    16.5.2016 16:26


    The so-called commercial seal hunt as carried out on the Canadian East Coast has for many decades been labelled as cruel, inhumane and unnecessary. As a response to public pressure and campaigns to shut down the hunt, the European Union adopted a regime in 2009 effectively shutting down the EU’s internal market for products stemming from seal products other than indigenous communities. In his doctoral dissertation MA Nikolas Sellheim shows how the regime disregards a science-based approach.

  • Doctoral thesis: Finnish human rights culture is still undergoing a transition

    30.11.2015 10:13


    The legal culture of protecting fundamental rights and human rights has faced changes in phases as a result of accession to the European Convention on Human Rights. A new cross-scientific doctoral research of M.Pol.Sc, MA Virpi Koivu indicates, however, that the transition of legal culture is still not complete.

  • Doctoral thesis: Predictive system design solutions to direct and optimise the flow of visitors in large spaces

    23.11.2015 13:59


    In his thesis MA (Dipl. Des.) Markus Schröppel focuses on producing guidance aid for large, shared spaces through graphic design. The results of the study and the corresponding solutions and recommendations can be used to avoid problems in confronting icons and guidance systems. The presented solutions, with the array of methodologies and the focus on the user, enable us to efficiently check and evaluate the functionality of existing sign systems.

  • Doctoral Thesis: The systematic use of local languages would be essential in Ghanaian education

    19.8.2015 13:30


    In African countries, the indigenous languages have been shadowed by the English language. Even in post independent period, many African countries still use their colonizers’ languages in their official transactions and deliberations, as well as media of instruction in their schools. MA Osei Twumasi Ankrah’s research established that the use of mother tongue would be essential in the Ghanaian education.

  • Doctoral defence: The formality of criminal judgments is a facet of the national law and legal culture

    1.6.2015 16:00


    The proper formulation of court judgments is one of the crucial linguistic questions as regards the application of the law and legal decision making. In her doctoral thesis, Emilia Lindroos, MA, examines criminal judgments handed down in Germany and Finland in recent years, comparing them in terms of content, structure and style. Her research reveals that where content and structure are concerned, the degree of formality in such judgments in both countries can be attributed to the combined influence of the country’s legislation and legal culture. The phraseology found in the judgments, that is, the fixed expressions, have most often been taken directly from legal texts.

  • Doctoral defence: Arctic politics: where knowledge meets power

    25.5.2015 15:00


    Amid environmental changes, impacts of the global economy and the scramble for natural resources in the region, the Arctic has become a focus of interest worldwide. Keeping pace with these trends, Arctic politics has embraced an ambition to ‘know’ the Arctic, its resources and potential. Indeed, one distinguishing feature of that politics today is a strong commitment to and consensus on the need to produce knowledge on the region. A crucial consideration in the process – and the subject of Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen’s doctoral research – is the power of such knowledge in governing development.

  • Doctoral thesis: Audiovisual installations making visible the inequalities brought by globalization

    20.4.2015 16:00


    The doctoral thesis of visual artist Minna Rainio, MA, provides an audiovisual and spatial representation of the inequalities inherent in the various dimensions of globalization. She addresses migration, refugeeism, and trafficking of women for prostitution through artworks and written research.

  • Doctoral defence: New Model to Help Teachers Using Simulations in Healthcare Education

    2.4.2015 13:00


    The use of simulations has become an established part of healthcare education throughout the world. In her doctoral research, Tuulikki Keskitalo, M.Ed., has developed a new pedagogical model to support teachers in planning, implementing and evaluating simulation-based instruction.

  • Doctoral defence: The improved status of indigenous peoples has not decreased the exercise of power over them

    16.3.2015 14:00


    The exercise of power over indigenous peoples has not decreased, even though they enjoy improved opportunities for political participation and increased recognition of their rights. Rather, power has taken on more subtle forms.

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