Triin Roosalu

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Tallinn University

The proliferation of ride-hailing platforms in the last decade has been challenged by workers’ mobilization around the world. In order to complement the existing research on successful organizing, in this article the authors investigate the lack of collective resistance in two cases. By comparing the ride-hailing industry in Berlin (Germany) and Ta...

Teesid: Sõjakäsitlus tavateadvuses on paljukihiline: selles on nii isikliku/perekondliku kogemuse elemente kui ka kollektiivsete ajalookujutluste ühtlustavaid mõjusid. Esimene maailmasõda on meist ajas sellisel kaugusel, kus see on muundunud sündmuse esialgsest kommunikatiivse mälu vormis meenutamisest institutsionaliseeritud kultuurimälu osaks. 20...

The global proliferation of neoliberalism, prioritising market primacy, privatisation, and deregulation, has impelled employers to pursue enhanced labour flexibility.

Introduction Despite the interconnectedness of the European Union, there are significant variations in pregnant women’s legal status as migrants and therefore their ability to access maternity care. Limited access to maternity care can lead to higher morbidity and mortality rates in migrant women and their babies. This study aimed to investigate an...

This paper discusses the institutional change in higher education to accommodate inclusive hybrid learning environments. Based on the empirical example of the usage of Telepresence device to enable access to on-site learning space for nontraditional disabled international students, this paper draws on the experiences of the learner and the learning...

The gender pay gap (GPG) remains significant in most countries and is a key indicator of gender inequality in society. Qualitative research on the GPG is scarce, yet, qualitative perspectives on the GPG are valuable as the ways in which the GPG is understood and talked about shape actions to tackle it. This article focuses on how the GPG is represe...

The coronavirus pandemic has brought about a number of partly improvised, partly only temporary, but in every respect diverse and often unprecedented social policy measures in Europe. The edited volume provides an encompassing and longer-term analysis of social policy responses during the COVID-19 crisis in order to ask in which direction the Europ...

Given the rapid globalisation since the 1990s and the rising support of a culture of internationalisation in higher education across Europe, the position of national languages in academia deserves more attention. The “Strategy for the Internationalization of Estonian Higher Education 2006–2015” has diminished the role of Estonian by removing the re...

Adopting a dynamic view of vulnerability and using a critical discourse analysis based on a corpus of 68 European documents (25 years) on lifelong learning, this chapter explores the conceptual underpinnings of how lifelong learning has addressed the challenges of vulnerability among young people. The results show that youth, especially those in vu...

Europe’s retail sector provides early career workers with a first entry into gainful employment, though often employing them on a part-time and/or temporary basis. This chapter compares workplace learning opportunities in the retail sector in Belgium, Denmark, and Estonia, focusing on early career workers’ experiences. Using in-depth case studies,...

Attracting the best students into universities is a policy agenda driven by the state and universities in Estonia and Denmark. While the policies on internationalization of higher education (IoHE) in Estonia and Denmark are well crafted, the value that international graduates add to the learning environment and culture are hardly explored. Adopting...

This study uses thematic analysis approach to explore the contemporary mobility decisions of African graduates’ destinations selection, and how they experienced integration in Estonia. Twenty-two research participants comprising African International graduates, domestic students, lecturers, and administrators were interviewed for the study. The stu...

Artiklis anname ülevaate üldpädevuste käsitlemisest mitteformaalõppes. Eesmärk on välja selgitada, kuidas mitteformaalõppe poliitikadokumentides ja praktikas avaldub üldpädevuste arendamine ja osaliste agentsus. Selleks analüüsime üldpädevuste avaldumist kuue valdkondliku raja 23 poliitikadokumendis ja nende radade praktikute arusaamades. Mitteform...

The study explores how the structural conditions are perceived as barriers and enablers for the adaptation and integration of international students from the Global South into the host universities in the Global North. In this paper, Global South is represented by countries from Sub-Saharan Africa, henceforth (SSA), and Global North is represented...

Attracting the best students into universities is a policy agenda driven by the state and universities in Estonia and Denmark. While the policy of internationalization of higher education (IoHE) in Estonia and Denmark is well crafted in the policy and academic domains, the value additions international graduates add to the learning environments and...

The country`s national resources must be used sustainably, considering the environmental, social, and economic aspects. Estonia’s potential reserves of phosphorite are among the largest in Europe, but its extraction has been a historically sensitive issue. The current study was focused on Estonians` perceptions about the potential extraction and pr...

This chapter scrutinizes the gender wage gap by sector across the wage distribution in Estonia, a country with a very high labor market participation by women. A unique dataset comprising the Structure of Earnings Survey linked to the registries is used, which enables accounting for human capital, including previous employment history, job position...

This study explores the operational model of development partnerships between smaller emerging NGOs from lesser-known developed countries and their partners in the Global South countries. In particular, the subject of this investigation is the operations of an Estonian NGO in rural Northern Ghana. Ethnographic case study design is applied to gather...

This article attempts to pay closer attention to the way Nordic-Baltic cooperation experiences within the field of adult education were understood and conceptualised by the Estonian Liberal Adult Education (LAE) community. The explanatory single case study design is used in order to construct the case story of Estonian LAE which can be understood a...

This research paper is one in a series produced as part of the Cedefop project The changing nature and role of VET (2016-18). The aim of the paper is to provide an overview of how CVET is conceptualised in various international level policy documents and how it is referred to across countries. It discusses national conceptions of CVET, the provider...

Artikkel tugineb uuringule, mille fookuses on mitteformaalõppe tähendus ja diskursuse muutus Eesti arengut suunavates poliitikadokumentides. Selline rõhuasetus on tingitud asjaolust, et mitteformaalõppe tähendus on sotsiaalselt konstrueeritud, paradigma- ja kontekstispetsiifiline ning sõltub ideoloogiast, hariduspoliitilisest korraldusest, traditsi...

This research paper is the fifth in a series produced as part of the Cedefop project The changing nature and role of VET (2016-18). Based on comparative analysis of labour force survey data from 2014, the report analyses the vocational effect on labour market and education outcomes, asking whether any advantages conferred by vocational qualificatio...

This chapter provides a description of the basic features of the higher education system in Estonia in the historical perspective, paying special attention to the period during the Soviet time right before the USSR collapse and exploring the developments during the following period up to 2015. It is understood that both the social and political sys...

Aim: This paper explores the concept of migrant women as used in European healthcare literature in context of pregnancy to provide a clearer understanding of the concept for use in research and service delivery. Methods: Walker and Avant's method of concept analysis. Results: The literature demonstrates ambiguity around the concept; most paper...

Eesti tänane kodanikuühiskond on mitmekesine, hõlmates arvukalt vabaühendusi, eestkoste- ja katusorganisatsioone ning –võrgustikke. Kodanikuühiskonna kui terviku arengu seisukohast on oluline senine mitmekesisus säilitada ja edasiste sammude planeerimisel arvestada ühtviisi väiksemate ja suuremate, kitsama ja laiema tegevusulatuse ja suunitlustega...

Family policies and parental leave arrangements are part of the wider welfare ideology of a country, reflecting the understanding of the division of responsibilities between the state, the market, an individual and the family. We compared the discussions concerning parental roles, and in particular the role of the father, in the family with small c...

There is ample scientific evidence that work and care are gendered, but societies seem to remain blind to this. As Ridgeway and Correll (2004) put it, hegemonic cultural beliefs about gender act as the rules of the gender system, and these beliefs have self-fulfilling effects on perceptions and behaviours that give them a remarkable ability to pers...

With regard to their life courses and employment trajectories, women in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries represent a special case within contemporary Europe. Throughout most of the previous decades, employment of both genders was high, actively supported by state family policies and comprehensive work-family reconciliation measures that...

From the point of view of adult education, contemporary research accounts on formal education and lifelong learning is somewhat eschewed. First line of discussion, concentrating on VET or higher education, often completely forgets or marginalises its nontaditional, adult students. The second strand of current research deals thoroughly with learning...

This study focuses on institutional barriers that adult learners experience while participating in higher education programmes. We developed a holistic measure of diversification, accessibility, flexibility and affordability of higher education for adults. Based on pre-economic-crisis data across Europe we then explored the impact of macro-level in...

This article explores the different trade union responses to the growth of precarious work in the retail sector in Estonia, Poland and Slovenia in the context of the global economic crisis. The empirical research is based on interviews with trade union leaders and case studies of large multinational hypermarket chains. The analysis of sector-level...

A strong VET system is increasingly seen as essential to overcoming the current economic crisis in Europe. VET is seen as a powerful tool to assist in balancing labour market inefficiencies, increasing youth employment possibilities, and reducing skills mismatch. Its inherent flexibility and closeness to the labour market place VET in a good p...

In this paper, we compare the value discourses concerning parental roles, and in particular the role of the father in the family with minor children, as presented in the articles by researchers of two countries - Estonia and Norway. Family policies and parental leave arrangements are part of a wider welfare ideology of a country reflecting the unde...