Projects in progress

• 2006–2009, partner and the head of the Finnish Team in four year research project "Fabricating Quality in European Education", headed by Jenny Ozga, University of Edinburgh and with Risto Rinne (University of Turku), Peter Dahler-Larsen (University of Southern Denmark)  and  Christina Segerholm (Universitet of Umeå). Project win the 2005 Award ECRP (European Collaborative Research Projects in the Social Sciences) granted by the European Sciece Foundation and funded by the Academy of Finland and other EUROSCORES funding agencies.
   
  
• 2007–2010 partner and the co-head of the four year research project, funded by the Academy of Finland, Power, supranational regimes and new university management in Finland, headed by Risto Rinne, University of Turku.
   
• 2008–2011 partner and the head of the four year research project
  Parents and School Choice – Family Strategies, Segregation and Local School Policies in Finnish Comprehensive Schooling with Risto Rinne, University of Turku.
  (Funding application submitted to the Academy of Finland, Jan 2008.)
   

Former projects

• 1990–93, partner in the project "Social Regulation and Teacher Education Reform. Compartive study in eight countries", headed by T. S. Popkewitz. The final report: T. S. Popkewitz (Ed.) (1993) Changing Patterns of Power: Social Regulation and Teacher Education Reform. Albany, NY: The State University of New York Press.
   
• 1993–95, partner in the project "Foucault's challenge to the institutional produc­tion and study of knowledge", headed by  M. Brennan & T. S. Popkewitz. The final report T. S. Popkewitz & M. Brennan (Eds.) (1995)  Governmentality through education: Foucault's challenge to the institutional produc­tion and study of knowledge. New York: Teacher College Press.
   
• 1993–96, partner in the project "Modernization, Academic Discourses of Professions and Social/Political Fields: Reconstituting the Teacher", headed by T. S. Popkewitz. The final report: Simola, H. & Popkewitz, T. S. (Eds.)(1996)  Professionalization and education.  Helsinki: University of Helsinki. Department of Teacher Education. Research Report 169.
   
• 1998–2000, partner in the three-year research project "Education Governance and Social Integration and Exclusion in Europe", headed by Sverker Linblad (University of Uppsala). An eight-country project, financed (1 million Ecu) by Targeted Socio-Economic Research TSER/EU. Other partners are Sigurjón Mýrdal, University College of Education, Reykjavik; James G. Ladwig, University of Newcastle; Jenny Ozga, Keele University; Martin Lawn, Westhill College; Edwin Keiner, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen; Miguel A. Pereyra, Univerdiada de Cordoba; António Nóvoa, Universidade de Lisboa; Andreas M. Kazamias, University of Athens; Tom Popkewitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Various reports, including international journal articles and editied volume of a journal (refereed).
   
• 1998–2000, partner in the three-year research project "Decentralization and Professionalism: The Construction of the New Teacher in the Nordic Countries", headed by Kirsti Klette (Lillehammer University College). A project involving four Nordic countries, financed (2 million NOK) by the Joint Committee of the Nordic Social Science Research Councils (Nordiska samarbetsnämnden för samhällsforskning, NOS-S). Other partners are Ingrid Carlgren, (Linköpings Universitet, Sverige) and Jens Rasmussen (Danmarks Lærerhøjskole, Denmark). Various reports . including international journal articles (refereed).

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