I am a postdoctoral researcher at University of Eastern Finland, School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education. In my dissertation (2023) I examined how liminality affected asylum seekers’ subjective well-being, the negotiation of agency, and participatory barriers in pre-integrational education.

I hold a Master's in Social Science Research, specializing in Public Policy Analysis from Tampere University. My Master's thesis focused on how insights from behavioral economics, namely prospect theory, can guide preventive policy formation in public health, by laying a framework for how policy officials can reduce perceived barriers to the consumption of preventive care, policy thereby reaching vulnerable and high risk groups. Beginning January 2024, I am a doctoral researcher in the Doctoral programme on Inequalities, Interventions and New Welfare State (DPInvest) at the University of Turku. My dissertation will create the first reference budgets for university/university of applied sciences students in Finland, laying out the resources that Finnish and non-EU students in Finland need to participate in current Finnish society.

Projects

Multilayered and multifunctional structures by bio-based films and membranes