Sanni Tiitinen

• Doctor of Social Sciences
• Senior Researcher at JAMK University of Applied Sciences

Intermediate labor markets (ILM) aim to integrate disadvantaged individuals into labor markets by providing subsidized work opportunities. Using membership categorization analysis, we analyzed audio recordings of meetings where ILM professionals plan a new coaching model for a funding application. We examine the question: How do ILM professionals c...

In return-to-work (RTW) negotiations after sickness absence, the work ability of an individual employee becomes a shared interest for the multiple stakeholders representing both the healthcare sector and working life. In practice, the employee, employer and occupational health professionals need to reach a shared understanding of the employee’s wor...

Sosiaalinen konstruktionismi herättää kiivasta keskustelua tutkimuksen tekemisen tavoista ja tutkimustiedon luonteesta. Se on sateenvarjokäsite, jonka alle mahtuu monenlaisia, ristiriitaisiakin oletuksia ja painotuksia. Sosiaalisen konstruktionismin eri versioita yhdistää kriittinen suhtautuminen itsestäänselvyyksiin ja lähtökohta, jonka mukaan sos...

Personality testing is an elementary part of recruitment. The test results are increasingly considered a necessary means of obtaining information about candidates’ personalities and suitability. This has raised questions about who has the right to define a candidate’s personality in recruitment interviews. Here, we use conversation analysis to desc...

Tarvitaan laajasti erilaisia joustoja ja toimenpiteitä, jotta ihmiset pystyvät osallistumaan työelämään erilaisista työkyvyn lähtökohdista. Tässä tutkimuksessa keskitymme työterveysneuvotteluun, joka on työterveysyhteistyön keskeinen keino tukea työntekijän työkykyä ja työhön paluuta pidemmän sairauspoissaolon jälkeen. Neuvottelussa päätetään yhdes...

In this paper, we demonstrate how performing and belonging paradoxes act as triggers, mitigators and amplifiers for each other in moment-by-moment interaction. We show how expressing a performing paradox as part of group practice triggers belonging tensions, particularly when there is a strong expectation towards a uniform value-base. We further de...

Intermediate labour markets (ILMs) provide fixed-term work opportunities and coaching for people in disadvantaged positions in labour markets. We study 46 sequences from six audio-recorded recruitment interviews for an ILM job targeted at people who have been unemployed for a prolonged period. Using an ethnomethodological approach to identity, memb...

This study addresses the ways in which shared decision-making in multi-party return-to-work (RTW) negotiations is constructed as a collaborative practice. The research data are video-recorded Finnish RTW negotiations (n = 14), in which the physician, employer and employee make highly sensitive decisions concerning the employee's return to work afte...

Affiliative talk about personal experiences, that is, talk that supports the person's affective stance towards the experience, is important in all types of counselling. Often, however, this is not the only or even the main goal of the counselling. We investigate what interactional practices counsellors use to facilitate group members' affiliative t...

This essay identifies a theoretically interesting area, i.e. language and social interaction in self-managing organizations. By building upon earlier work in Wittgensteinian language games, we show that despite some existing research on management language games (inside and outside pragmatic constructivism), not much is known about language games i...

Ennaltaehkäisevä elintapaohjaus on keino tukea lapsiperheitä lasten painoon liittyvissä kysymyksissä. Lastenneuvolan laaja terveystarkastus tarjoaa tärkeän matalan kynnyksen areenan elintapoihin liittyvään ohjaukseen alle kouluikäisten lasten perheille. Lasten osallistuminen perheen arkea koskeviin keskusteluihin on lapsilähtöisen ja perhekeskeisen...

Työelämän vuorovaikutuksen tutkimus kohdistuu yksilöiden yhteistoimintaan erilaisissa luonnollisissa, taltioiduissa työelämän tilanteissa. Siinä tutkitaan esimerkiksi ammattilaisen ja asiakkaan välisisiä kohtaamisia erilaisissa työelämän konteksteissa, kuten ryhmäohjauksessa, työterveysneuvotteluissa ja teknologiavälitteisessä kotihoidossa, sekä am...

Although the use of theories and evidence is often stressed in the development of health promotion interventions, this does not guarantee the success of an intervention. Thus, we need to reflect on intervention development processes that use different types of theories and evidence. In this paper, we provide a reflective discussion on how we identi...

Using conversation analysis and audio recordings of workplace meetings, we analyze stepwise transitions in discussions about ideas during meetings. We demonstrate that, in this context, stepwise transitions have functions related to maintaining cooperative social relationships by offering a way to (a) resist the presuppositions of the presented ide...

Vertaistuki on todettu vaikuttavaksi ohjauskeinoksi. Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan vertaistukea vuorovaikutuksen mikrotasolla keskustelunanalyyttisen, vertailevan tapaustutkimuksen avulla. Aineisto koostuu viiden pienyrittäjänaisten vertaisryhmäohjausprosessin videoinneista. Näiden strukturoitujen, ratkaisukeskeisten ryhmien tarkoitus oli edist...

Työn reflektointi ja keskusteleva työkulttuuri ovat avainasemassa työyhteisöjen osaamisen kehittämisessä ja työkyvyn tukemisessa. Ohjaus on keino, jolla voidaan tukea sekä yksilöiden oman työn reflektointia että työyhteisön yhteisöllistä oppimista. Koska ohjaus perustuu keskusteluun, sen onnistuminen riippuu siitä, kuinka hyvin vuorovaikutus toteut...

This dissertation analyses the ways in which parenthood is supported in interaction in maternity and child health (MCH) clinics. Two points of view are addressed: 1) how fathers' parenthood and their participation in interaction is supported compared to mothers'; and, 2) when parents have potential problems, how parenthood is supported through an o...

This study examines whether and how equally shared parenting or gendered parenthood is produced in and through institutional interactions between professionals and parents in preventive child health clinics in Finland. The data consists of 17 video-recorded encounters in child health clinics between parents and public health nurses, and the method...

Early support has been acknowledged to be needed in the phase of transition to parenthood, and increasing knowledge is available on the factors enhancing this transition. The issue is to translate the knowledge into practices of preventive care. In this article, our aim is to map out recent research on supporting parents in maternity and child heal...

In preventive health-care settings, professionals need to encourage clients to talk about their problems before they become critical. We use multimodal conversation analysis to demonstrate how public health nurses encourage parents to elaborate on their problems in a sample of preventive maternity and child health (MCH) clinics in Finland. The nurs...

Describing and analyzing speaker selection in conversations between the health nurse and parents in maternity clinics. The data consisted of ten video-recorded encounters in maternity clinics. Using conversation analysis, we investigated 89 sequences of interaction in which the health nurse asks a question that is verbally addressed to both parents...