Leaders of the research community:
Research and education matters
Docent, University lecturer Raisa Carpelan
Professor Arto Kallioniemi
Training and municipal cooperation
Docent Tapio Lahtero
The members of the KAJO research community collaborate with the University of Tampere, Aalto University, the Institute of Educational Management at the University of Jyväskylä, Åbo Akademi and the University of Lapland. In addition to domestic partners, researchers have several international partners (e.g. Tallinn University, University of Toronto, University of Southern California).
Get to know KAJO's researchers and trainers here.
Doctoral researcher, University teacher, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki
Research interests include leadership for wellbeing, teacher attraction and retention, and issues of spatial segregation in the context of early childhood education.
Dosent, University lecturer, Department of Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki
Research topics include educational change, educational reforms, special education, educational development and leadership.
Postdoctoral researcher, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki
Research topics are leadership, the construction of a leader's identity and issues of power in the context of early childhood education leadership.
University lecturer, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki
Research topics include teacher learning, teacher agency, early career teachers, teacher education and leadership.
Professor,
PhD, Department of Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki
Research interests include diversity, school community, inclusiveness, school development, and leadership.
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki
Research topics include didactics of religion and multicultural education.
Doctoral Researcher, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki
Professor of practice, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Turku
The topic of the research is the management of the reform process at different levels of the elementary school system: the effects of the changing operating environment on management and management skills.
Doctoral researcher, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki
Research topic is trust in the professional school community
Administrative Principal, Viikki Teacher Training School, University of Helsinki
Doctoral researcher, B.Ed., MMM, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki
Research interests include the effects of leadership in the context of early childhood education, quantitative research methods.
Working title of the dissertation "Orientations of early childhood education management in supporting the well-being of staff and children" (Varhaiskasvatuksen johtamisen orientaatiot henkilöstön ja lasten hyvinvoinnin tukemisessa).
Doctoral researcher, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki
Research interests include educational change, educational reforms, leadership for teacher learning.
Project planner, M.Sc. (Eng), Class and subject teacher, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki
Research interests include quantitative methods, educational assessment, and teacher segregation.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki
Research topics include school leadership and management
Specialist, PhD (Ed.), Education Consultant, World Bank
(Counselor of Education, Ministry of Education and Culture, leave of absence)
Research interests include quality and development of education, administration and management of teaching and educational activities, educational guidance system in general education and basic education.
Rector,
MA, Doctoral researcher, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki
Research interests include welfare management in primary schools, primary education management and development of primary education management.
Doctoral researcher, MA (Ed.), Class teacher, Special education teacher
Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki
Research interests include leadership for inclusion in comprehensive school, inclusiveness and school development.
University lecturer, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki
Research themes include inclusion and leadership, early childhood education and pre-primary education, basic education.