University of Stirling

Graduate Student, Education

PhD Graduand

School of Education

Thesis Title: Gathering, Translating, Enacting. A study of interdisciplinary research and development practices in Technology Enhanced Learning’

About

While soon re-locating to Uppsala, Sweden, after nearly 12 years in the UK, I currently work as a part-time visiting research fellow at the University of Dundee for a project called ‘New Directions for Work in Digital Scotland’. At the same time, I am a graduand at the University of Stirling, having defended my PhD thesis ‘Gathering, Translating, Enacting. A study of interdisciplinary research and development practices in Technology Enhanced Learning’ successfully in March 2012. My PhD-study was linked to an interdisciplinary research and development project called Ensemble (www.ensemble.ac.uk), part of the UK Technology Enhanced Learning programme. The PhD concerned the research and development practices of educational researchers and computer scientists working together, studying case-based learning in a number of settings in Higher Education and developing semantic web-applications for supporting these activities. Drawing on Actor-Network Theory approach and multiple ethnographic methods, I followed how a new piece of semantic educational technology emerged through the heterogeneous research and development practices engaged in the project in one of the six research settings engaged by the project, the discipline of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.

My research interests include ethnographical and formative/emergent research methods, participatory research, theories of sociomaterialities, Actor-Network Theory, post-humanist research, the practices of inter- and multidisciplinary research, inter-agency working as well as learning and research technologies. I look forward to making contacts with researchers and research groups with similar interests in Sweden/the Nordic countries, and would be very happy to hear from you to open up dialogue and possible further contact. Please feel free to contact me on this forum of by email.
Prior to embarking on the PhD, I worked for the Applied Educational Research Scheme of Scotland (2004-2008) at the University of Strathclyde as a Research Officer. This involved administering and researching the use of Sakai Virtual Research Environment used by collaborative, educational research teams and other groups. During my time at the University of Strathclyde I completed a part-time MSc in Applied Educational Research in 2008. My first degree (MA) is from the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Turku, Finland, in 2000.

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