Marja Leena Böök

Marja Leena Böök

Senior Lecturer
Unit
Faculty of Education and Psychology
Department / Division
Department of Education
Email
marja.leena.book@jyu.fi
Fields of science
516 Educational sciences

Biography

I work as a senior lecturer in the Department of Education at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, in the Education and Adult Education. I teach in basic, subject and advanced studies and supervise bachelor’s and master’s theses. I also supervise doctoral theses. I have the title of docent from the University of Oulu, Faculty of Education. The area of my docentship is family research in the field of education.

Research interests

My research focuses on parenthood and family. I am currently researching co-parenting in the transition to parenthood with the data from the CopaGloba-Learning to coparent research project. Together with my colleague J. Terävä, I am also studying (co)parenting after separation from the perspectives of mothers, fathers and children.

Publications

Publication
2025

Families with Children in a Turbulent Era. Edward Elgar.
Kuusiaho, Inka-Liisa
Eerola, Petteri
Böök, Marja Leena
Rönkä, Anna
Publication
2025

Families, Relationships and Societies.
Böök, Marja Leena
Terävä, Johanna
Zartler, Ulrike
Publication
2025

European Journal of Social Work.
Rautaparta-Pennanen, Kaija
Kekkonen, Marjatta
Collin, Kaija
Böök, Marja Leena
Rönkä, Anna
Publication
2024

Families, Relationships and Societies.
Ranta, Minna
Böök, Marja Leena
Paloniemi, Susanna
Rönkä, Anna
Publication
2024

Children and Society.
Lahtinen, Maria
Böök, Marja Leena
Sevón, Eija
Publication
2024

International Journal of Social Pedagogy.
Rautaparta-Pennanen, Kaija
Kekkonen, Marjatta
Collin, Kaija
Böök, Marja Leena
Rönkä, Anna
Publication
2024

Journal of Adult Development.
Ranta, Minna
Paloniemi, Susanna
Böök, Marja Leena
Rönkä, Anna
Publication
2024

Psykologia.
Knuutila, Annika
Jokelainen, Heidi
Rönkä, Anna
Böök, Marja Leena
Malinen, Kaisa
Publication
2023

Journal of Family Studies.
Ranta, Minna
Böök, Marja Leena
Paloniemi, Susanna
Rönkä, Anna
Publication
2023

Journal of Comparative Family Studies.
Kekkonen, Marjatta
Böök, Marja Leena
Kokkinen, Katja
Malinen, Kaisa
Matias, Marisa
Baxter, Jennifer
Rönkä, Anna

Projects

Perhe
Project

Learning to coparent: A longitudinal, cross-national study on construction of coparenting in transition to parenthood (CopaGloba)

Learning to coparent