Team

About me

Currently, I am working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Tampere Institute of Advanced Study, where my research focuses on investigating resilience in higher education in war- and conflict-affected contexts. Over the past nine years, I have explored various aspects of university teachers' professional development. My doctoral research (2015-2020) investigated their innovativeness and willingness to change. Additionally, I worked as a data analyst and consultant for the capacity building e-Training FinPal project (March 2017–May 2020). Following this, I led a TAU-funded postdoctoral project Developing Digital Pedagogics (2020-2021) that examined online teaching expertise during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, I was awarded a one-year grant to further explore Online Teaching Expertise in Conflict-Affected Regions, with a particular focus on Palestine/Gaza.

Field of expertise

• Quantitative Research Methods
• Mixed-Methods Research Design and Analysis
• Professional Development in Higher Education

Research unit

Professional Growth and Learning PGL (https://research.tuni.fi/pglresearch/), Higher Education in Transition HET (https://research.tuni.fi/het/)

About me

I am a postdoc researcher doing practice-theoretical investigations on relationships between time and subjectivity, specifically how they become entangled to produce visions of pasts and futures. This is key to questions around the grounds sourcing our political imagination of live and death under racial capitalism. 

Responsibilities

I am the artistic researcher in the GazaRise project, where we explore the interrelated factors shaping Gazan university teachers’ responses to war along a continuous spectrum of those who are either in Gaza or the diaspora. 

Field of expertise

My work artistic/academic work deals with memory work through the lenses of performance pedagogy, Black feminist philosophy, memory studies, and decolonial thinking.