Suvi
Jokila
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Education
PhD, postdoctoral researcher
Areas of expertise
Internationalisation of higher education
international student recruitment
international student mobility
intranational mobility
rural and regional areas
higher education
transition
private tutoring
ethnography
justice in education
sociology of education
policy sociology
COVID-19 experience
Biography
Suvi Jokila is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Academy of Finland funded research project " In the urban shadows? An ethnographic and longitudinal study of educational and socio-spatial mobility of youth in regional city areas in Finland" (Shadows).
She co-leads International students in times of crisis -research project (https://sites.utu.fi/equalism/). The aim of the project is to understand international students' experiences in Finnish universities during the pandemic.
Suvi is also studying rural school experiences during the comprehensive school era in Finland with colleagues from University of Turku and University of Eastern Finland.
Teaching
I teach in the following courses:
- Comparative and international education
- Koulutus ja globalisaatio (course in Finnish)
- Master's thesis seminar (EdLearn-program)
Research
Suvi's fields of research interests include processes of internationalisation in higher education, intranational mobility, privatisation and commercialisation of education and questions of social and geographical justice.