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PERSONAL DATA	RESEARCH AND RESEARCH TRAINING ACTIVITIES	TEACHING EXPERIENCE
OTHER SCIENTIFIC MERITS	RECENT PUBLICATIONS

PERSONAL DATA

Sulkunen, Pekka Juhani. Jyväskylä, 15. July 1948
Professor of Sociology at University of Helsinki since 1.8.2000, appointed 1.4.2001.

Education

Master's degree, University of Helsinki, Department of Sociology 1972. D. Soc.Sc. in sociology, University of Helsinki (1980).

Post-doctoral student in Paris under Prof. Nicole Belmont (anthropology, Collége de France) and Prof. A.J. Greimas (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in 1981-1982.

Employment record

Research fellow at the Social Research Institute of Alcohol Studies since 1980, director in 1983-1986. Docent at the University of Helsinki since 1983 and since 1988 at the University of Jyväskylä. Acting professor of sociology at the University of Helsinki 1989-1990.

Appointed as professor of Sociology at the University of Turku in 1997 (on leave of absence until 2000). Research professor in Stakes 1997-2000. First choice by the external assessment panel for the chair of sociology at the University of Tampere, Finland, 1997.

RESEARCH AND RESEARCH TRAINING ACTIVITIES

Research orientation

Dissertation (1980) on alcohol consumption trends in Western countries. Continuing interest in several aspects of alcohol and drug research. Long-term interest in theoretical and methodological issues in sociology. Recent and ongoing work on (a) theoretical approaches and preventative strategies towards addictions; (b) the split between nature and culture in relation to Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments; (c) theoretical and methodological issues related to evaluation research and sociological intervention.

Duties as scientific expert and international activities

Opponent or pre-examiner in the examination of 12 licenciate and 12 doctoral dissertations in the Universities of Gothenburg, Helsinki, Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Tampere, Turku and Upsala. Expert in the assessment panel for the professor of sociology the University of Joensuu in 1998. Expert in several docentships in Finland and Sweden.

Appointed expert and member of Board of the Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies since 2001.

Chair of the international expert panel for the international Jellinek Memorial Award for alcohol studies in 2001.

Visiting professor in the Universities of Oslo (1997), Nottingham Trent (1997), Stirling (1998) and Upsala (1996). Lectured also in Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, in the Universities of Harvard, Rennes, Tartu, Toronto, Toulouse, and in institutes such as The Addiction Research Foundation (Toronto), The US National Institute of Health, Tallinn Institute of History, World Health Organization (Geneva and Copenhagen), UNESCO. Member of international evaluation panel of sociology teaching at the Estonian Agricultural University, the Pedagogical University of Tallinn and the Estonian Institute of Humanities in 2001. Member of the Editorial Board and an active referee of Critical Public Health (Carfax).

Previously received research funding (5 years)

Approximately 160 000 € for evaluation research on the alcohol and drug prevention programme Klaari Helsinki from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, and from the city of Helsinki in 2001-2002. The evaluation research group consists of one full-time and three part-time researchers and a number of temporary research assistants.

Funding from the University of Helsinki for diverse research and teaching expenses up to 7000 € in 2002.

External funding 441.000 FIM from Nordic Council for Alcohol and Drug Research (NAD) for the Nordic collaborative project Studies on the Nordic Alcohol Policy Systems (SNAPS) 1997-2000. Total budget excluding expenses, salaries and grants from Sweden and Norway approximately 2.900.000 FIM. The research team consisted of approximately 30 research participants from the Nordic countries. Fourteen researchers contributed to the final report ("Broken Spirits - Power and Ideas in Nordic Alcohol Control, 2000). Nine of these were preparing and three also finalised their doctoral dissertations during the project on themes related to the book. - Funding for conferences and research visits from diverse sources.

Participation in research supervision and coordination of research schools

Leading the Group for Sociological Intervention since 1992, including thirteen (November 2002)doctoral students from five different universities and seven different departments in Finland, the United Kingdom and Estonia.. - Supervising altogether fifteen (November 2002) doctoral students.

I was the scientific director of an 8 day course for doctoral students in sociological evaluation research, organised by The Nordic Council for Alcohol and Drug Research, funded by Norfa. The course was held at Lammi, Finland in September 2002, with 9 lecturers from four European countries and 28 students from the Nordic countries and from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Supervised doctoral dissertations and other academic theses (past 5 years)

Doctors

Soile Veijola: Liikkuvat subjektit, paikallinen tieto. Tutkimuksia urheilusta, turismista ja sosiologiasta. (1998) eximia cum laude approbatur
Maaria LinkoAitojen elämysten kaipuu. Yleisön kuvataiteelle, kirjallisuudelle ja museoille antamat merkitykset.(1998) magna cum laude approbatur
Jukka Törrönen: Juomisen vapaus ja vastuu. Sosiosemioottinen analyysi alkoholipoliittisesta liberalismista maallikkoajattelussa. HY sosiologian laitos (1999) eximia cum laude approbatur
Tiina Arppe: Pyhä ja kirottu - pahan ongelma ranskalaisessa yhteiskuntateoriassa (2000)
Erkki Kilpinen:The Enormous Fly-Wheel of Society: Pragmatism´s Habitual Conception of Action and Social Theory (2000) laudatur
Christoffer Tigerstedt: The Dissolution of the Alcohol Policy Field. Studies on the Nordic Countries (HY, sosiaalipolitiikan laitos) magna cum laude approbatur
Kati Rantala: "Ite pitää keksii se juttu" tutkimus kuvataidekasvatuksen ja kasvatettavan kohtaamisesta (2001) eximia cum laude approbatur
Johanna Mäkelä: Syömisen rakenne ja kulttuurinen vaihtelu (2002) magna cum laude approbatur.
Piia Jallinoja: Genetics, negotiated ethics and the ambiguities of moral choices (2002). Magna cum laude approbatur.
Kalle Toiskallio: Liikenteen sosiologiaa: taksimatkan seurallisuus, katuiliikenteen neuvottelut ja automainosten näkökulmat" (defense on 11 December 2002).

Masters (2002):

Nine majors in sociology, ranging from non sine laude approbatur to eximia cum laude approbatur.

Other theses

Approximately 35 other doctors', licenciate and masters' theses in previous years.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching load and methods

Currently five to six courses per year, including lectures, small groups, examinations and seminars as well as some individual supervision. I have developed my own techniques for teaching and supervising in groups, and also new techniques of organising "open examinations" with minimal introductory lecturing, group work, carry-on notes and thematic questions in the examination situation. I have developed a new technique for the pro gradu seminar called "Jatkuvatoiminen gradusauna" (continuously working gradu bath).

My current teaching constitutes a thematic whole called the Integrated Research and Teaching Programme on Life Style Regulation (integroitu tutkimus ja opetusohjelma elämäntapojen sääntelystä - INTO ETSIÄ). It includes:

a lecture and reading course ("Regulating Life-Styles in the Welfare State") with myself and international as well as Finnish researchers as visiting lecturers, running annually since autumn 2000; the course, intended for undergraduate as well as for doctoral students, has variable content and can be taken several times;
a course in evaluation research organised in 2000 by docent Marja Homila; and planned again for 2003;
two research practicum seminars connected with my evaluation research project on Klaari Helsinki in 2001 and 2002. The students' research results have been used in our evaluation reports and part of them will be published also independently
supervision of one doctoral and five masters' dissertations on topics related to the research project.

Text-books and manuals

Besides the introductions to sociology (5A:4-6, 11, 13 and 13a in my list of publications) I have published a manual for computer-assisted analysis of qualitative data (numbers 5A: 9 and 10). Although the software is no longer available, I use the manual in my qualitative methodology teaching. I also have written a students' and teachers' manual for the continuous pro gradu seminar (unpublished 2002).

Teaching results

Integrating research into teaching has resulted in an efficient flow of students from lecture and reading courses to research practicum and to their own dissertation work, indicated by the number of students who have chosen to use data from my research (six theses). Several other students are working on closely related topics. A real research context has assured a publishable

Quality of research practicum reports.

Out of 18 studens who have finished my pro gradu seminar between spring 2000 and spring 2002 14 will have graduated by the end of 2002. Four additional students have dropped out from the seminar.

All ten students who started in my doctoral seminar before 1997 have now completed their dissertations. No students have dropped out.

Feed-back from students and colleagues

I have received from my students a "Diploma with laudatur for excellent work in the gradu seminar 2000-2001. The factors contributing to this special recognition have been devotion, expertise, sensitivity, inventiveness, enthusiasm, encouraging attitude and sense of humour". (Appendix 1)

The sociology students' association Kontakti has proposed me as a candidate for the 2002 Eino Kaila award, granted annually by the University of Helsinki. The head of department, professor Kari Pitkänen, has supported the students' proposal (Appendix 2)

OTHER SCIENTIFIC MERITS

Most important scientific honours and positions of trust held

Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences from 2002. Editor of the journal Sosiologia in 1979; president of the Westermarck Society in 1992-1996; member of the board of trustees of the Finnish Culture Institute in Paris. Several state committees: on teaching social sciences and humanities (1992-1994), on alcohol policy (1978:33), on alcohol and traffic, and several temporary commissions and working groups.

Academic award

The international Jellinek Memorial Award 1997 for "social, cultural and policy relevant research, especially your outstanding contribution to social and cultural studies through research on drinking subcultures and on patterns of diffusion and distinction in drinking practices".

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

My list of publications includes almost 200 articles and books. About 120 of them are indepdendent scientific contributions.

Selected books

Edited with Christoffer Tigerstedt, Caroline Sutton and Katariina Warpenius: Broken Spirits. Power and Ideas in Nordic Alcohol Control, 2000
"Johdatus sosiologiaan - käsitteitä ja näkökulmia" (Introduction to sociology - concepts and perspectives") (1998, 9 editions), "Sosiolgian avaimet" (Keys to Sociology) (1994, 7 editions).
Edited with Jukka Törrönen:"Semioottisen sosiologian näkökulmia - sosiaalisen todellisuuden rakentuminen ja ymmärrettävyys" (Towards semiotic sociology - the construction and ynderstandability of social reality), Gaudeamus, 1997
Edited with Holmwood, John & Radner, Hilary & Schulze, Gerhard:Constructing the New Consumer Society. Macmillan, London 1997,
The European New Middle Class, Avebury 1992.
With Pertti Alasuutari, Ritva Nätkin and Merja Kinnunen: The Urban Pub, 1997(1985)
A la Recherche de la Modernité Consommation et consommateurs d'alcool en France, 1987.

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