Marjaana
Puurtinen
Academy Research Fellow, Department of Teacher Education (Turku)
PhD, Title of Docent
Areas of expertise
Expertise development
Visual expertise
Epistemic Cognition
Music
History
Eye tracking
Biography
Formerly Penttinen.
Education and degrees
- 2019: Adjunct Professor (title of docent), Faculty of Education, University of Oulu
- 2016: Master of Arts (European and World History), University of Turku
- 2013: PhD (Education), University of Turku
- 2006: Master of Arts (Education), University of Turku
Recent academic positions
- 2021-2026: Academy Research Fellow, Dept. of Teacher Education, University of Turku
- 2019- (on leave 2021-2026) University Lecturer, Dept. of Teacher Education. Including research duties at the Functional Foods Forum, Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku
- 2017-2018: Senior Researcher, Dept. of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku (part-time)
- 2018: Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Teacher Education, University of Turku. (part-time)
- 2015-2017: Postdoctoral Researcher, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku.
Selected administrative duties
- Coordinator, Turku Eye-tracking Laborotories
- Board member, University of Turku Graduate School
- Vice-director, Doctoral Programme on Learning, Teaching and Learning Environments
- Board member, Executive Board of Research development, Faculty of Education
Other skills
- Folk musician, arranger, composer and music pedagogue.
Teaching
- Primary supervisor for one completed PhD thesis and primary/secondary/third supervisor for five PhD Researchers at the Faculty of Education, Univ. of Turku.
- Supervisor for over 70 MA or BA theses at the Dept. of Teacher Education, Univ. of Turku.
- Extensive experience in, e.g., teaching research methods and reporting in educational sciences.
Research
Funded research projects
- PI/Academy Research Fellow, "Eye on history: How experts and novices deal with visual representations of the past". Research Council of Finland, 2021-2026.
- Researcher at the Functional Foods Forum, "Senses and Food" team. Research Council of Finland (funding for research profiling at Finnish universities), 2019-2021.
- Consortium coordinator and post-doctoral researcher, "Reading music: Eye movements and the development of expertise". Prof. Erkki Huovinen (PI), University of Jyväskylä and Royal College of Music in Stockholm & Prof. Hans Gruber (PI), University of Regensburg and University of Turku. Research Council of Finland, 2014-2018.
- PI/Post-doctoral Researcher, "Looking at music: Eye movements and the development of music-reading skill". Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, 2015-2017.
- Co-applicant and post-doctoral researcher, "Visual literacy as part of expertise in history". Prof. Arja Virta (PI), Marjaana Puurtinen and Markus Nivala. Finnish Cultural Foundation, announced in 2013.
- PhD candidate, The Finnish Doctoral Programme in Education and Learning (funding for 4,5 years), announced in 2006.
Publications
Regrounding Inquiry-Based Learning in History: A Study of Historians’ Epistemic Processes (2025)
Cognition and Instruction
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Cognitive Mechanisms in Temporally Controlled Rhythm Reading: Evidence From Eye Movements (2023)
Music Perception
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Historians’ criteria for appraising historiography: An interview study (2022)
International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Proceedings : International Conference of the Learning Sciences
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4))
Aims in the practice of historiography: An interview study with Finnish historians (2022)
Historical Encounters
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Investigating visual attention toward foods in a salad buffet with mobile eye tracking (2021)
Food Quality and Preference
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Soi torpat ja salongit - Spel i stuga och salong (2021)
(Julkaistu itsenäinen taiteellinen teos (F1))Food Consumption and Emotions at a Salad Lunch Buffet in a Multisensory Environment (2020)
Foods
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
When you ignore what you see: How to study proof-readers’ error in pseudocode reading (2020)
ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4))
Preface-7th international workshop on Eye Movements in Programming (EMIP) (2020)
ETRA
(O2 Muu julkaisu )
Handling of incongruences in music notation during singing or playing (2020)
International Journal of Music Education
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )