Sonja Ruottunen

Job title: Senior Researcher
Tel: +358 29 524 7490
Email: [email protected]

Expertise

  • Well-being and public services
  • Employment services
  • Gender studies
  • Area studies

Primary duties

  • Wellbeing economy in Finland -project (part of Sustainable Growth Programme for Finland)
  • Well-being implications of Employment Services – qualitative case study

Education

  • 2022 Doctor of Philosophy (Central and East European Studies), University of Glasgow 
  • 2017 Master of Science (Gender History), University of Glasgow
  • 2016 Master of Arts (Central and East European Studies/History)

Professional background

  • 2021-2023 employment services expert, Employment Espoo
  • 2017-2022 PhD researcher, University of Glasgow

Language skills

  • Finnish (native)
  • English (excellent)
  • Russian (good)
  • Swedish (fair)

Publications

Ruottunen, Sonja (2022) Cultural Scripts of Parenting and State Institution in the Context of Post-Socialist Migrations: Case of Russian-Speaking Migrant Parents in Finland. University of Glasgow.