EDUCATION

My university studies include Arts and Culture Studies, Art Education and Visual Arts Didactics, General Education and Adult Education. I have a teaching qualification in Adult Education.

Doctor of philosophy, Education, 2024

Doctoral thesis: Public art in the learning environments of schools and educational institutions in the 2010s: perspectives on acquisition, encountering, and pedagogical use

Supervisors: Prof. emer. Heikki Ruismäki, Prof. emer. Inkeri Ruokonen & title of docent Sari Karttunen
Opponent: Prof. Helena Sederholm

Doctoral Programme of School, Education, Society and Culture, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki

Master of philosophy, Art education, 2009

Master's program of Nordic Arts and Culture Studies
Master's thesis: OUR ART. The Reasoning for the Acquisition and Placing of the Public Sculptures of the Jyväskylä City Art Collection in 1977-2007

Supervisor: Prof. Pauline von Bonsdorff. Department of Arts and Culture Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Jyväskylä

Education Subject Studies (cum laude approbatur), 2013–2014

Teachers Pedagogical Studies in Adult Education, 62 study cr, University of Helsinki

SPECIALISATION STUDIES

(2004)

Information and Communication Studies, International producer, Stadia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki

(2011)
Protomo Aalto incubator, development of a business idea, Aalto University, Espoo

OTHER HIGHER EDUCATION

(1999 - 2003)

Bachelor's degree in Cultural Management and Production, Cultural producer, Humak University of Applied Sciences, Turku

UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL

(1996 - 1999)

Kallio Upper Secondary School of Performing Arts, Helsinki