My research focuses on issues such as sustainable global health governance, pharmaceutical industry, stakeholder engagement, corporate responsibility, ethics among others, within the context of emerging economies of Africa.

Multidisciplinary social scientist working on global political economy, development theory, development policy, political philosophy, economic alternatives, development ethics, social movements.

My research project contributes to sustainability and ethics discussions in organisation studies by exploring personal integrity through a posthumanist lens. It aims to redefine traditional concepts of integrity to foster new approaches to ethical decision-making. The study focuses on sustainability professionals (SPs) and their complex web of relationships within organisations, where human and non-human actors are intertwined and collaboratively shape decision-making. By examining the entanglements between SPs, food, technologies, and environments, the project seeks to understand how these interconnected relationships influence personal integrity.

Doctoral student at the Faculty of Social Sciences, specialising in humanitarian photography, colonial legacies in visual communication, and ethics of representation in digital media. My research explores how aesthetics, power, and human rights are intertwined, with a particular focus on the role of the viewer in processes of meaning-making and complicity.

An investigation of the values of humanitarian ethics in transformation, focused on compassion, empathy, humanity principles.

Timonen, V. (in review). Lessons from a Finnish and Nepali collaboration: Co-constructing an intercultural professional learning community in music education. Timonen, V., Juntunen M-L., Westerlund H. (in review). Colonialism or an invitation for utopian life-projects? On politics of reflexivity in Nepali and Finnish music teachers’ intercultural dialogue. In Kallio, A., Karlsen, S., Marsh, K., Saether, E., Westerlund, H. (Eds.), The Politics of Diversity in Music Education. Treacy D.S., Timonen V., Kallio A. A., Shah, I. (2019). Imagining Beyond Ends-in-view: The Ethics of Assessment as Valuation in Nepali Music Education. In D.J. Elliott, M. Silvermann & G. McPhearson (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophical and Qualitative Assessment in Music Education. Oxford University Press. Timonen, V., Houmann, A., Sether, E. (2020). The reinvented music teacher-researcher in the making: Conducting educational development through intercultural collaboration. In Westerlund, H., Karlsen, S., Partti, H. (Eds.) Visions for intercultural music teacher education. Springer.