Research
I am currently working as an Assistant Professor in media and communication at the Swedish School of Social Science at University of Helsinki. I coordinate the Finnish part of the European Researching Social Media and Collaborative Software Use in Emergency Situations (RESCUE) research project. The main goals in the project include developing better strategies and tools for how to use social media in crisis communication. Crisis communicators as well as journalists are studied.
I’m also involved in research focusing on journalism and trauma, currently within a project where we investigate risk factors for psychological impairment in journalists who worked the terror attack in Norway in 2011.
The work with my doctoral thesis "Work-related Crisis Exposure, Psychological Trauma and PTSD in News Journalists", where I studied topics such as journalists’ work during the school shootings in Finland 2007–08, was finished 2012.
Previous work experience includes working as a researcher/teacher at Åbo Akademi University, and as a news journalist, mostly at the Finnish Broadcasting Company, YLE.
I’m also involved in research focusing on journalism and trauma, currently within a project where we investigate risk factors for psychological impairment in journalists who worked the terror attack in Norway in 2011.
The work with my doctoral thesis "Work-related Crisis Exposure, Psychological Trauma and PTSD in News Journalists", where I studied topics such as journalists’ work during the school shootings in Finland 2007–08, was finished 2012.
Previous work experience includes working as a researcher/teacher at Åbo Akademi University, and as a news journalist, mostly at the Finnish Broadcasting Company, YLE.
Personal interests
In short, I enjoy the little things in life, such as having a nice dinner, fishing, chopping firewood, hanging out with family and friends, reading, watching movies, collecting books, listening to music, and (did I already mention this?) chopping firewood.
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