PhD student

University of Oulu, started 2018

My PhD research concentrates on interaction in a cross-cultural virtual organization. Currently, I am specifically interested in how the culture of an organization operating in a virtual environment is emerging in a dynamic process of interaction. As I have been working in such an environment for years, I will approach the research question as an ethnographer and employ the methods of mediated discourse analysis and nexus analysis.

Master of Arts (FM)

University of Oulu, February 1991

Main subject English philology (86.5 credit units, excellent)

Subsidiary subjects:

• German philology (40.75 credit units, excellent)
• Nordic philology (21.25 credit units, good)

French (6 credit units)

Computer science (5.5 credit units)

General studies (45.5 credit units)

Teacher training (1992; grade 4/5, 40 credit units), including pedagogics (excellent) and didactics (excellent)

Master's thesis: The World-Creating Power of Dramatic Dialogue: A Study in Discourse Analysis with Special Reference to "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" by Joe Orton

• While studying I enjoyed especially anything related to applied linguistics, such as discourse analysis/text analysis, sociolinguistics and stylistics. What I hated most was grammar and syntax, although I did really well in those, too.

Translator (Diplomikielenkääntäjä)

Tampere Language Institute, May 1980

• Main language English
  
• Subsidiary language Swedish
  
• Field of specialization: Technology
  

Business administration (Tradenomi)

Oulu University of Applied Sciences (2010)

May 2011

130/210 ECTS (1 year)

Media and communication studies

• Media and communication studies (University of Helsinki/Open; Basic studies 25/25 ECTS 2017 - 2018)

• Communication and interaction (University of Eastern Finland/Open; 3 ECTS)
  
• Specialized communication (University of Vaasa/Open; 5 ECTS), 2017
• Creating an Effective Information Taxonomy (ComTech Services, Inc.), 2017
• Marketing communications (University of Lapland/Open 5 ECTS; 2018)
•  Introduction to corporate communication (University of Jyväskylä/Open 5 ECTS; 2022)
  

Texts in Professional Environments

University of Oulu (Sep 1995 - Jun 1996)

A further training program of 35 credit units/approx. 60 ECTS 

• Critical text and reader analysis
• Visual design
• Process writing as a means of professional development
• Two surveys on the communicative practices in professional environments to provide ideas for language training; an article in Tietopisto 18/96. Related to this, started my post-graduate thesis focusing on adult learning and learning organizations (not finished).
• Use of the Internet and computer networks, PageMaker, Word for Windows

Psychology

Occupational and organizational psychology, University of Eastern Finland/Open university

• Basic studies 25 ECTS (April 2008)
• Intermediate studies 14/35 ECTS (October 2011, continued in 2017)

Psychology, University of Oulu/Open university

• Basic studies: Introduction to psychology 5 ECTS (September 2012)

Management/Leadership/Coaching

University of Oulu/Open University:

• Introduction to management/leadership, 5 ECTS (2006)
• Management/Leadership and change, 5 ECTS (2007)

A course at Nokia Networks (3 months in 2009)

• Situational Leadership

University of Oulu, Extension School (Feb 2012)

• Solution-oriented coaching, Introduction (2 days, part of a 2.5-year certification program in coaching and supervision

POHTO Training and Development Centre, Oulu (Dec 2014)

• PMP project management: a six-month training preparing for the PMP certification exams

• Six Sigma purple belt, Nokia Networks (2014)

Usability/Miscellaneous

Service design basics (2017)

Creating an effective information taxonomy (2017)

Introduction to photography, North Lake College, Irving, TX, USA (Jan - May 2002)

Using a 35 mm SLR camera, black-and-white film, and photosensitive papers, incl. a portfolio.

Numerous courses at Nokia Networks (1997 - 2014)

Related to telecommunication technology, technical writing, information design, and the specialist role, for instance.

Numerous courses in language teaching (1992 - 1996)

Examples: Teaching and evaluation of oral communication skills