Personal details and the date of the CV

Name: Kaakinen, Johanna Karoliina

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2970-826X

Date of the CV: 4.1.2022 / 22.10.2024

Degrees

  • 2004 Doctor of Psychology (PsT), psychology, University of Turku, Finland
  • 1999 Master of Arts (psychology) (PsM), psychology, University of Turku, Finland
  • 2012 Title of Docent, cognitive psychology, University of Turku, Finland

Other education and expertise

  • 2022 Good Academic Leadership training, Turku School of Economics
  • 2021 Management and leadership training program (8 months), University of Turku
  • 2020 Doctoral thesis supervision training, parts I-III, The University of Turku Graduate School
  • 2009 Teaching and learning in higher education (10 credits), University of Tampere
  • 2007 Is it hard to learn research methods? Workshop for teachers of research methods and statistics (1 credit), University of Turku
  • 2001 Argumentation as a teaching method (1 credit), University of Turku

Language skills

  • Native language: Finnish
  • Other language skills: English (excellent), Swedish (good), French (basic)

Current employment

  • 1.10.2024 – Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku, Finland

Previous work experience

  • 1.1.2022 – 30.9.2024 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Finland
  • 9.2011 – 31.12.2021 (leave of absence 1.1.2017-31.12.2019), University lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Finland
  • 1.2017-31.12.2019 Senior Research Fellow, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies / Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Finland
  • 3.-31.7.2019 Visiting scholar, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany,
  • 6.2017 – 31.5.2018 Visiting professor, INSEAD Fontainebleau, France
  • 6.2017 – 31.7.2018 Visiting scholar, LUTIN laboratories, Paris, France
  • 1.2009 – 30.8.2011 Post Doctoral Researcher (Academy of Finland), Department of Behavioural Sciences and Philosophy, University of Turku
  • 8.2008 – 31.12.2008 Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Tampere
  • 8.2007 – 31.7.2008 Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Turku
  • 4.2002 – 31.7.2007 (leave of absence 1.1.2005-31.7.2006) Junior lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Turku,
  • 1.- 31.12.2005 Post Doctoral Associate, Department of Psychology, Florida State University
  • 1.2000 – 31.3.2002 PhD student, Department of Psychology, University of Turku
  • 9.-31.12.1999 Intern, Department of Information Technology, University of Turku
  • 1996-1999 Part-time research assistant, Department of Psychology, University of Turku

Research funding and grants

  • 2021 – 2024 PI of “Immersion in literary narrative: Emotional and cognitive processes” project grant from Academy of Finland, 480 000€
  • 2020 – 2023 Consortium leader and PI of “Fostering Finnish Science Capital” consortium funded by the Strategic Research Council, total funding 4 322 269€ (1 593 800€ to PI)
  • 2019-2021 Collaborator in a grant “Is what we read also what we learn?” from FWO (Research Foundation – Flanders, Belgium) to David Gijbels and Vincent Donche (PI’s), University of Antwerp, 279 050€
  • 2018-2022 Collaborator in a consortium grant “Instrumental Narratives: The Limits of Storytelling and New Story-Critical Narrative Theory” to Maria Mäkelä (PI, University of Tampere), Merja Polvinen (partner, University of Helsinki) and Hanna Meretoja (partner, University of Turku) from Academy of Finland, 280 000€ per partner
  • 2017 PI of research infrastructure funding for eye tracking laboratory, from University of Turku, 53 000€
  • 2014-2015 Work package leader in a grant “Play for reward: Developing a model of rewarding game experience (ReGX) for player experience (PX) design purposes” from TEKES to Aki Koponen (PI, Turku School of Economics), 299 500€
  • 2014 PI of research infrastructure funding for eye tracking laboratory, from University of Turku, 100 000€
  • 2009-2011 PI of individual research grant “Individual differences in goal-directed cognition” from Academy of Finland, 190 000€
  • 2008-2010 PI of individual research grant “The role of evidential markers in on-line sentence processing” from Academy of Finland and DAAD, 2008-2010, 2 900€
  • 2007 PI of individual research grant ”Nuorten depression ennaltaehkäisy- ja hoitomalli” from Turku University Foundation, 2007, 5 020€

Supervisor to undergraduate and postgraduate students

  • Primary supervisor of 34 completed Master’s theses (Department of Psychology, University of Turku) in 2006-2021, currently supervising 6 Master’s thesis students (Department of Psychology, University of Turku)
  • Primary supervisor for PhD students: Olkoniemi, Henri (University of Turku, Finland, 2019) and Holm, Suvi (University of Turku, Finland, 2023).
  • Member of the supervisory group for PhD students: Mäki, Otto (University of Turku, Finland, estimated 2025); Nguyen, Trang (University of Turku, Finland, estimated 2025); Chauliac, Margot (University of Antwerp, Belgium, estimated 2021), Catrysse, Leen (University of Antwerp, Belgium, 2018); Nolvi, Saara (University of Turku, Finland, 2017)

Leadership in research groups

  • Research theme “Skills and learning” director in INVEST research flagship (2021 – )
  • Coordinator of Turku EyeLabs eye tracking laboratories (University of Turku, Finland) 2014- present (leave of absence 1.1.2017-31.12.2019)
  • Leader of the FINSCI consortium (5 partners: University of Turku, University of Eastern Finland, Heureka science center, and Skope ry): responsible for preparing the funding application and coordinating and managing the consortium, 2020- present
  • PI of IMMERSED research project: responsible for preparing the funding application and coordinating and managing the project, 2021-
  • Work package leader in Play4Reward project: responsible for coordinating and managing the work package and supervising a PhD student

Teaching merits

Pedagogical training and expertise:

  • Studies in university pedagogics (i.e., teaching and learning in higher education) (total 12 credits)
  • Demonstrations of teaching skills for a university lecturer position in psychology (University of Turku) was evaluated as excellent (5.5.2010), and for a lecturer position in psychology (University of Tampere) was evaluated as very good (7.5.2008).

Involvement in curriculum planning:

  • Leader for the Methods team at the Department of Psychology, University of Turku, 2011-2020 (leave of absence 1.1.2017-31.12.2019)
  • Responsible for coordinating the curriculum reform of the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs in psychology, University of Turku, in 2004-2005.
  • Member of the committee for developing teaching in the faculty of social sciences, University of Turku, 2004-2008
  • Member of the national work group for Master’s degree programs (Psykonet), 2006-2008.

Teaching experience:

I have several years of experience in teaching courses in research methods, statistics, and psychometrics both in Finnish and in English.

Awards and honours

  • Tapio Nummenmaa dissertation award, 2006
  • Turku University Foundation dissertation award, 2005
  • Outstanding student paper award, The Society for Text and Discourse, 2000
  • Young scholar stipend, Wäinö Edward Miettinen foundation, 2000

Other key academic merits

Pre-examiner / opponent of a doctoral dissertation, memberships in dissertation committees:

  • Suvi Karla (2014, University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
  • Elyana Saad (2015, University of Helsinki, Finland)
  • Kaisa Kanerva (2019, University of Helsinki, Finland).
  • Leen Catrysse (2018, University of Antwerp, Belgium)
  • Ugo Ballenghein (2019, University of Paris 8, France)
  • Lorena Alicia Martin Arnal (2019, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
  • Margot Chauliac (2021, University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Peer review of funding applications:

  • Dutch Research Council (NWO), The Netherlands (2021)
  • University of Paris Initiative Excellence (IDEX), France (2020)
  • Faculty of National Institute of Education, Singapore (2016)

Memberships and positions of trust in scientific and scholarly societies:

  • Board member of the Society for Text and Discourse (2013 – 2019)
  • Board member of the Finnish Psychological Society (2007-2016)
  • Psychonomic Society Fellow, Member of the Society for Text and Discourse and International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature

Memberships in national or international expert, evaluation or steering groups and other expert roles:

  • Literacy Expert Group member for Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) (2018-2023)
  • Expert group member of the Oxford Primary English Reading Assessment (OPERA), Oxford University Press, 2020
  • Management Committee member of E-READ COST action (2014-2018)
  • Member of the national committee of psychological testing (2014-2016)

Memberships in editorial committees for scientific and professional publication series and journals or position as editor or editor-in-chief:

  • Editor-in-chief (2021 – 2024), associate editor (2020), and editorial board member (2015-2019) for journal Discourse Processes
  • Editorial board member for Journal of Educational Psychology (2020-2021 )

Referee for scientific publications:

Ad-hoc referee for e.g., Applied Cognitive Psychology; Contemporary Educational Psychology; Consciousness and Cognition; Cognition & Instruction; Educational Research Review; Journal of Cognitive Psychology; JEP: LMC; JEP: Applied; Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Eye Movement Research, Journal of Research in Reading; Media Psychology; Memory & Cognition; Nature Human Behavior; Psychological Review; QJEP; Reading Research Quarterly; TESOL Quarterly.

Administrative responsibilities at higher education institutions or at research organisations, responsibilities in the higher education community:

  • Governing board member of the Doctoral Programme of Social and Behavioural Sciences and the Doctoral Programme on Learning, Teaching and Learning Environments Research (OPPI), University of Turku (2020 – )
  • Vice director of the National Doctoral Program of Psychology (DOPSY) (2013 – )
  • Deputy member of the governing board of the national network of psychology departments PSYKONET (2013 – )
  • Deputy member of the board of directors of Centre for Statistics, University of Turku (2015- )
  • Governing board member of the Centre for Learning Research, University of Turku (2014 – 2018)
  • Deputy member of the faculty board, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Turku (2012-2016)
  • Member of the departmental board, Department of Psychology, University of Turku (2004 – 2008)