I work at the Department of History and Ethnology as a postdoctoral researcher and I am part of the multidisciplinary Children, Families and Social Sustainability (SOSUS) profiling area. In my research project, I examine the history of Finnish playgrounds and the world of childhood experiences. In addition, I am involved in the research project "Teiniliitto, vimma ja rakkaus" (2020-2023) funded by the Kone Foundation, which deals with the history of school student activism. In 2020, I defended my dissertation at the University of Oulu with my dissertation on the oral history of school student associations in Finnish upper secondary schools. Since then, I have extensively researched the history of Finnish childhood and youth at the end of the 20th century from the perspectives of education as well as memory studies. I have particularly considered the methods of combining historical research and oral history and the problems related to childhood and youth memories.
I'm on parental leave until Autumn 2024.
Memory studies, oral history, history of childhood and youth, history of education and history of social movements, history of emotions, history of experiences
