Speakers

Associate Professor in Social Policy, Work Research Centre WRC at Tampere University.

Areas of expertise: labour market, work careers, job quality, and active labour market policies.

In charge of the projects organising the event – funded by Kone Foundation and The Research Council of Finland.

I am a researcher specializing in social policy and labor market, with a particular focus on active labor market policies, public employment services, wage inequalities and precarious employment.

My forthcoming PhD thesis aims to provide new empirical evidence on the causes and conditions of informal employment in Finland and Europe.

Tampere University & University of Helsinki

Tampere University

I am a university teacher at the University of Jyväskylä, in the DEICO (Development, Education, and International Cooperation) degree programme from January 2024, and a KONE grant researcher from 2025.

My research interprets and problematises labour market structures for migrant workers in the EU from a social constructivist lens, using multiple theories including theories of citizenship rights, welfare, disaggregated human agency, social construction, and justice among others. My doctoral dissertation analyses the social productive capacity, and function of Finland’s migration regimes such as the temporary international student permit regime, and draws critical links to Finnish welfare and labour market segmentation in Finland. My post-doc research takes a new angle to examine 2 emergent phenomena:

(1) The transformative potential and the immediate and delayed impacts of the twin green and digital transitions on labour market structures and labour market institutions such as unions, welfare, social security, and social dialogue in Europe.
(2) The implication of Europe’s sinking islands on climate migration preparedness in Europe as a whole and in the most immediately affected countries, using the Netherlands, the UK, and Italy as analytical cases.

University of Jyväskylä

I am a section manager at Kela’s Research Unit. My area of ​​study is income security, including housing allowance and social assistance. My recent studies have covered topics related to housing allowances, the housing of social assistance recipients, the unemployment benefits for young persons, and immigrants’ use of Kela’s benefits. I have also participated in the evaluation of the Finnish Basic Income Experiment. Now, I am involved in the background work on the social security reform.

I serve as the chair of SAK and am responsible for the management of the organization. I manage the SAK office in accordance with the decisions of the board and the representative body. I represent and promote SAK’s goals in relation to the public and partners.