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Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research
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PeopleFacultyYrjö Engeström, ProfessorI am interested in cultural-historical activity theory and developmental work research in general. Currently, I focus especially on co-configuration as a new way of organizing work, and expansive learning in multi-activity settings. Read more Reijo Miettinen, ProfessorWorking for a decade in a big public research center, the Technical Research Center of Finland, I continuously faced the problem of organizing research work and groups and of promoting innovations in collaborative networks. My research work is oriented to creating understanding and practical tools to solve these problems. I share with my research group an... Read more Jaakko Virkkunen, ProfessorBorn in Helsinki 30.10.1943. Master of Arts in psychology at the University of Helsinki 1971. 1971 –1984 Deputy Training Manager planning in-house-training systems for civil servants in the Ministry of Finance, Department of Organization and Methods. 1984 – 1987 Senior planning officer planning and organizing management training at the State Tech... Read more ResearchersRitva Engeström, Ph.D., Senior ResearcherMy current research has liaisons to the beginnings of Developmental Work Research two decades ago. Since then, my colleagues and I have used reflexive methods of data gathering and analyzing, such as stimulated recall interviews, on line video interviews, and interactive ethnography. My interest in reflexivity has expanded in the context of social science to... Read more Merja Helle, Lic.Soc.Sci, ResearcherHead of Research at Mediaconcept Laboratory at IADE/University of Art and Design Helsinki Read more Hannele Kerosuo, Ph.D, ResearcherProject: Boundary Crossing and Knotworking in Innovative Work Organizations The study focuses on boundary crossing and knotworking in companies operating under challenging organizational and business environments. For the purpose organization design for innovation and innovation activity are researched in 2-3 Finnish companies. The concept of activity is ... Read more Pirjo Lambert, D.Ed., DocentI am leading the research and development project at HAAGA-HELIA School of Vocational Teacher Education, where the new writing genres are in the process of being developed in universities of applied sciences. Currently, my research interest focuses on the development of interventionist writing in R&D projects that supports the joint construction, examina... Read more Kirsti Launis, DocentJanne Lehenkari, PhD, ResearcherFrom January 2008 onwards, I work at Advansis Ltd. Read more Jaana Pirkkalainen, Ph.D., project managerThe project - Options of privatization and shared responsibility: organization of work and mastery of change in new hybrids of private and public sectors - is financed by the Finnish Ministry of Labour and it is a part of a large scale undertaking by the Ministry called Workplace Development Programme(Työelämän kehittämisohjelma www.tykes.fi). The three-yea... Read more Hanna Toiviainen, PhD, ResearcherPost-doctoral research project "Multiple mediation of learning in networks", Academy of Finland 2008-2010. Partnering research project "Learning concepts of operations – Tools for the management of multicultural production networks", TEKES Sept/2009-2011. Read more Terttu Tuomi-Gröhn, ProfessorJuha Tuunainen, Dr.Soc.Sc.My doctoral thesis focused on the trajectory of a Finnish agricultural plant-biotechnology research group and its transformation into a university start-up company. The main body of the thesis was composed of four research articles, each analyzing a distinctive phase in the group’s developmental trajectory. Using conceptual resources drawn from cultural-hist... Read more StudentsStephanie Freeman, M.A., Doctoral StudentHow are new forms of Internet-mediated peer-production (such as is Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) changing the relation between developer and user, author and reader, expert and lay person? What motivates people to contribute? What kind of ‘virtual community’ is being built and enacted? To whom is participation open? Finding answers to the question ... Read more Heli Kaatrakoski, M.A. (Educ)My research interest in my dissertation focuses on the structural change (strongly guided by the New Public Management doctrine stressing market logic in organisation’s activity), currently under way in Finnish welfare state. The change, which changes the division of labour between the public, private and third sector is evident in new forms of organisations... Read more Anu Kajamaa, M.A. (Educ.), Doctoral StudentThe research task in my dissertation is to develop an approach which takes evaluation of organizational change projects beyond traditional evaluation paradigm and offers new directions and possibilities for evaluation and organizational development. The dissertation focuses on 'gaps' in evaluation studies and evaluation practices and offers an approach and t... Read more Kirsi Kallio, LicPhil, PhD StudentCOLLABORATION AND OBJECT-ORIENTED INTERAGENCY IN CO-CONFIGURATION My study is a part of a developmental and research project conducted at an industrial business organization Metso Automation. The practical goal of the project is to develop work practices and tools for recently adapted business concept based on sustained cooperation between Metso and its c... Read more Jonna Kangasoja, M.A. PhD candidateI am working as a researcher at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at the Helsinki University of Technology. Current projects include research on -Competence Demands and Education of Finnish Planner Architects -Land-Use Planning and Interactive Expertise -URBA The Future Concepts of Urban Housing Read more Satu-Mari Korhonen, MA (Educ.), ResearcherJuha Leminen, M.Soc.Sci, Doctoral studentUlla-Maaria Mutanen, PhD StudentMy purpose is to study an evolutionary process during which a global paper machine company Metso Corporation takes actions to integrate industrial design into its organization and build a new multidisciplinary design capability for developing industrial machines. Research problem 1: How has product development and industrial design activity developed in M... Read more Auli Pasanen, MA (Educ.), Doctoral StudentAnna Pauliina Rainio, Lic.Ed., Doctoral CandidateThe working title of my dissertation research is: "Lionhearts of the Playworld: An Ethnographic Case Study of Children’s Agency and its Development in Play Pedagogy" In Finnish: "Leijonamieleksi leikkimaailmassa: Etnografinen tapaustutkimus toimijuudesta ja sen kehityksestä leikkipedagogiikassa " The current time calls for a recognition of children... Read more Marika Schaupp, M.Sc. (Econ.), Ph.D. StudentTHE NEW CONCEPTS OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT In the new economy the old mass production-based management styles have become too ponderous. Strategic time spans are getting shorter and organizations need to reorganize their production and service activities more and more frequently. Knowledge and flexible capabilities have become the most valuable resour... Read more Juha Siltala, M.A., Doctoral StudentMy main interest is the organization of Internet-mediated, distributed work. My dissertation work deals with the emergence of rules in GNOME, a large Free Open Source software project. Loose, object-oriented collaboration networks are emerging as a distinctive, new form of organization as an alternative to traditional, hierarchical organizations. My work con... Read more Marianne Teräs, PhDI am currently working as a researcher for the Department of Education. My research focuses on collaboration between vocational education and training and working life. My research interest also focuses on intercultural education and immigrant training in the area of vocational training. In my PhD disseration I studied and developed an intervention calle... Read more |