Autumn has been an active period for the TYSTI project from the perspectives of research, publications, and new development initiatives. The project examines the connections between workplace learning, innovation, well-being, and workplace pedagogy in Finnish working life, and during the past months we have taken several significant steps forward. Publications Completed and New Manuscripts Underway […]

Learning at work is both an everyday experience and a subject of academic research, but what exactly lies behind it? Learning and the support of learning in the workplace naturally affect all employee groups, but in an article published last summer we focus on the leadership point of view. In our article How Can Learning […]

One of the strengths of our JATKOT research group has been its multidisciplinary nature. We each represent slightly different academic disciplines, with adult education serving as the unifying factor. These different perspectives enrich our group and ensure our focus remains broad. In this blog post, we take a journey into the world of business and […]

The6th International Conference of Possibility Studies took place this July at the University of Sussex, Brighton, England. I’d like to share my experiences with you, for two reasons. The first reason is personal. Obviously, for an academic, there are many reason to attend a conference: research dissemination, visibility, networking, visiting a place you would otherwise […]

Between 2022 and 2025, the Research Council of Finland funded my postdoctoral research project, Employee-Driven Learning and Innovation (EDLI), which examined employee-driven innovation through a learning-theoretical lens in both policing and the technology sector. The project sought to understand how employee-driven innovation emerges and manifests itself in these contexts, as well as the challenges associated […]

Digital technology is a central work tool, especially in knowledge work, and thus also in learning at work. It offers many opportunities, but its use is also associated with negative effects. Thus, I wanted to study more on the humanly sustainable use of digital technology. Research increasingly identifies, for example, technology-induced workload and stress. Continuous […]

Laws and regulations guide all police work, but the authority based on them is different from police officers’ opportunities to influence their own work. Especially in preventive work that emphasizes multidisciplinary cooperation and expertise, there are better – if not essential – opportunities to strengthen professional agency, understood as the ability to act and exert […]

The JATKOT research group participated in the Nordic Adult Education Conference held in Turku with a delegation of nine researchers. This year, the conference combined the Finnish Adult Education Research Days (AITU) and the Nordic Adult Education Conference (NAEL). The conference theme was crystallized into a single question: “What is the role of adult education […]

Our research on ethics in police work (link) has often prompted spontaneous comments such as “This is such an important topic! This is needed. Absolutely.” or “Why the police? Why them in particular?”, but also more skeptical remarks: “Are you, as researchers, going to give instructions and tell the police what they should do? Surely […]

During my PhD, I sent questionnaires to people in a specific leadership role. One response stood out, not because it was a completed survey, but because it was a single line: “You, researchers, are a bunch of (…).” The message was nothing along the lines, “You, researchers, are a bunch of people who can’t do […]