• Supervised 28 pro gradu thesis
• Supervising 4 pro gradu thesis
• Supervising 11 doctoral thesis
• Consulted and consulting several theses of different levels

Reseach appropriations and grants

• EU/DAPHNE-programme, an appropriation for organising an information campaign against sexual harassment at work in Finland as a part of an international campaign led by the Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz, 25.000 euros.
• Barents 2010 –programme / Barents Euro-Arctic Region, 2000 euros for networking in aim to apply funding for an international web-based training course on challenges of globalisation in education, autumn 2004.
• EU/DAPHNE-programme, an appropriation for an international web-environmental teaching and learning project on sexualised and gendered violence (AWARE II), 97.600 euros, and for the same project an appropriation from the Ministry of Social and health Affairs, Finland, 18.000 euros for the years 2003 – 04 (October 30)
• NorFA / Nordic research programme “Gender and violence”, an appropriation for network, and a research project “Gendered Violence in Schools and Teacher Education in the Barents Region”, for the years 2003 – 04, 570.000 NOK
• EU/DAPHNE-programme, an appropriation for research and publication project “Increasing Awareness in Educational Organisations of Sexualised and Gendered Violence” (AWARE), for the years 2001 – 02, 99 700 euros
• NorFA / Nordic research programme “Gender and violence”, an appropriation for network, and a research project “Gendered Violence in Schools and Teacher Education in the Barents Region”, for the years 2001 – 02, 600 000 NOK
• NorFA, an appropriation for the post-graduate level research course “Sexism and Violence in Schools as Research targets”, for the years 2000 – 01, 260 000 NOK
• The Academy of Finland, an appropriation for the research project “Gendered power relations, and violence in schools and teacher education”, for the years 2000 – 03, 628000 FMK
• University of Oulu, the Development Unit of Teaching, an appropriation for developing IT-based teaching in women studies, for the year 2000, 5000 FMK
• NorFA, an appropriation for organising a workshop entitled “Societies in Transition – Values in Transition: Values of Youth in the North” (Petrodzavodsk April 1999) and a planning meeting connected with researching violence in school environments (Arkhangelsk November 1999) (together with doc. Rauni Räsänen), 82.000 NOK
• The Nordic Council of Ministers, an appropriation for organising activities in Femina Borealis, for the year 1998 (together with Doc. Aino Saarinen), 100.000 NOK
• The Nordic Council of Ministers, an appropriation for writing an article to the final Nord Lilia publication (Through the University of Oslo, A-L Arnessen), in the year 1998, 10.000 NOK
• University of Oulu, the Development Unit of Teaching, an appropriation for analysing research material connected with gendering in university studies for the year 1998, 5000 FMK
• University of Oulu, a grant for doctoral theses, in the year 1997, 10000 FMK
• University of Oulu, a grant for a conference in Washington, in the year 1994, 8000 FMK

Applications in process

• “System of Values Implied in Mistreatment Prevention” – a participation in the research-appropriation that has been applied from EU/DAPHNE –research-programme March 4, 2005, by Emaus, Estructura Coordinadora, Spain. The amount of funding applied for Women’s Studies, Oulu, is 15.000 euros.
• Increasing awareness of sexualised and gendered violence in the environments of handicapped people, and of the violence caused by stereotypical notions of normality” . EU/DAPHNE –research-programme March 4, 2005, by Emaus, Estructura Coordinadora, Spain. The amount of funding applied for Women’s Studies, Oulu, is 15.000 euros.
• “Promoting Women’s access to Science through Mentoring Network” - appropriation will be applied from the EU / The Sixth Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development and Demonstration. The application will be sent in Summer 2005, the amount of funding that will be applied is 644.000 euros

Scientific expert tasks, memberships, confidential posts

• Member in the administrative board of WomenIT (Women in Industry and Technology) –project funded by EU/ESR/ Equal –programme, 2001 – 2005
• Member of the supervising group of the Equal National Thematic Work “Pulling down segregation in Labour markets” funded by the Ministry of Labour, Finland, 2003 – 2005
• Member of the Nordic Post-Graduate School on Gender Issues, 2004 – 2008 led by NIKK and the University of Linköping, and funded by NorFA.
• Member in the WomenIT Transnational research network 2002 – 2005
• Member of the Research Section, Faculty of Education University of Oulu, 2004 –
• Member of the Section of Sociology, Women’s Studies and Environmental Education, Faculty of Education, University of Oulu 2002 -, and deputy chair of the section 2003 -
• Member of the Equality Committee at the University of Oulu, 2004 –
• Member in the Advisory Committee of Gender Studies at the University of Oulu, 2004 –
• Main Advocate of Women Studies at the University of Oulu, September 1, 2004 – (and before that September 17, 1996 - August 31, 1999)
• Member on the Editorial Staff of Acta Universitatis Ouluencis, 1999 - 2004
• Editor of Acta Universitatis Ouluensis Series E (Scientiae rerum socialium), 1999 - 2004
• Member of the co-ordination group of The Sami-Language Teacher Education Project 2001 - 2004
• Member in SUNS (Association for Women’s Studies in Finland) 1995 –1996, and Deputy Member 2000 – 2001
• Member in the Research Section of TANE (Finnish Ministry of Social and Health Matters, Equality Issues Council), 1996 – 2001
• Chair of the Executive Group of Women Studies at the University of Oulu, September 1994 – July 1996
• Member of the Administrative Council of the Department of Teacher Education, University of Oulu, 1994 – 1996 |