Melina Aarnikoivu

• Doctor of Philosophy (Applied Linguistics)
• PhD Academy Coordinator at University of Groningen

For an individual doctoral student, doctoral education happens in multiple spaces across a considerable amount of time. However, the existing literature and conceptualisations of doctoral education do not adequately address the spatiotemporal dimension related to it. By using the concept of scales, this article examines how the social action of doi...

This dissertation explores doctoral education as a form of social action. The qualitative mode of inquiry guiding both the theoretical and methodological choices of this work is nexus analysis. In the context of this work, doctoral education is a nexus where different social actors (such as doctoral researchers, supervisors, and funding agencies),...

This article discusses the potential of multidisciplinary peer-mentoring groups to facilitate individual and institutional change. To do this, we view peer mentoring as a form of critical education praxis (Mahon et al. 2019), the purpose of which is to create a space for reflexive thinking and asking critical questions. The data were collected by i...

In this paper I argue how nexus analysis (Scollon & Scollon, 2004), as a holistic, qualitative mode of inquiry, can offer a fruitful activist research approach to study international doctoral researchers. To do this, I will introduce and explain the core concepts of nexus analysis and afterwards empirically demonstrate how nexus analysis can be don...

The article draws attention to the value of informal scholarly communities for early-career researchers in higher education studies. To this end, we provide a narrative reflection on the past, present, and future of the Early Career Higher Education Researchers (ECHER) network. ECHER was established in 2011 and has since grown into a widely known i...

Yliopistojen rahoitusmallissa tärkeää roolia näyttelevä Julkaisufoorumi (JUFO) on virallisesti tarkoitettu laajempien julkaisumäärien tarkasteluun. On kuitenkin viitteitä siitä, että JUFOa käytetään laajasti myös yksittäisten tutkijoiden arviointiin. Tässä monimenetelmätutkimuksessa tarkastelemme sitä, miten JUFO-tasot vaikuttavat yksilöiden julkai...

Doctoral researchers are often assumed to be the academic actors with the least agency due to rigid academic hierarchies. In doctoral education scholarship, it has not been extensively discussed how doctoral researchers deploy their agency beyond their own research projects or how they might even play a pivotal role in shaping their institutions. B...

Tässä artikkelissa tarkastelemme, kuinka hyvin suomalaisissa yliopistoissa kirjoilla olevat väitöskirjatutkijat kokevat hallitsevansa tieteellisen kirjoittamisen ja millaista tukea siihen saadaan. Tutkimus toteutettiin verkkokyselyllä (n = 397), joka sisälsi sekä monivalinta- että avoimia kysymyksiä. Monivalintakysymysten rakennetta hahmotettiin en...

In an ideal world, doctoral scholars work in research groups, under the supervision of a professor who guides them through the perils of doing a doctorate. In a less ideal world, however, the group might be unsupportive and uninspiring—or one might not have one at all. In such circumstances, the importance of the Hidden Curriculum, as well as Hidde...

This chapter explores how academics construe the relationship between work and their universities during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The data consist of several rounds of semi-structured group interviews, conducted on Zoom with three groups of academics based in Europe and North America. The first group consisted of four early-career a...

https://dpu.au.dk/en/research/research-programmes/chef/publications/working-papers The main objectives of the exploratory project The role of European universities in an Age of Pandemic were (i) to analyse the effects of the pandemic at the system and institutional levels and (ii) to understand how perceptions and reactions dealing with the crisis...

Obtaining a doctoral degree requires acquisition of different types of skills and knowledge. The aim of this article is to explore multidisciplinary peer-mentoring groups (PMGs) facilitated by senior academics as a knowledge sharing practice in doctoral education. Drawing from interviews with participants of PMGs at a Finnish university, we found t...

Tässä artikkelissa tarjoamme autoetnografisen katsauksen kahteen soveltavaa kielentutkimusta ja korkeakoulututkimusta yhdistelevään tutkimusprojektiin, jotka molemmat olivat pitkän, osittain varsin fokuksettoman prosessin tulosta. Näiden kahden projektin avulla esittelemme ja pohdimme sitä, miten projektit saivat alkunsa, miten ne etenivät ja miten...

Editorial for Volume 2, Issue 1, Journal of Praxis in Higher Education (JPHE). www.jphe.org. ISSN: 2003-3605

Tässä tutkimuksessa selvitimme, millaisia ongelmatilanteita tohtori-opiskelijoiden monikanavaiseen seminaaritoimintaan sisältyi. Lisäksi tutkimme, millaisia seurauksia tilanteista aiheutui. Tutkimuksen teoreettis-metodologisena viitekehyksenä käytimme neksusanalyysiä (Scollon & Scollon, 2004). Tutkimusaineistomme koostui tohtoriopiskelijoille järje...

Editorial for Volume 1, Issue, 1, 2019, Journal of Praxis in Higher Education. www.jphe.org . ISSN 2003-3605.

This article examines the perceptions of early-career, fixed-term researchers in Finnish universities towards changing careers. It maps out the reasons this group has considered the change and where they see themselves in five years. As a theoretical framework, a synthesisation of variables related to career change, created by Ryan, Healy, and Sull...

In this policy analysis, we explain the difference between policy-based evidence (PBE) and evidence-based policy (EBP). We argue that better, evidence-based understanding, explanations, and questions can be sought by problematizing the challenging forms of twenty-first century migration and mobilities. We emphasize that this can be done by not conf...