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Anja Heikkinen’s research and teaching interests focus on relations between education, work and politics. Her approach is crosscultural, historisizing and sensitive to differences. Beside her professorship she is a Reader in History and Philosophy of Vocational Education.

On-going Research and Development Projects

Reform of degrees of education (Bologna process), VOKKE-project. http://www.helsinki.fi/vokke/english

Co-ordinator of Vocational education and culture-research network. http://www.peda.net/veraja/uta/vetculture

Erasmus MA and Dr programme development project CROSS-LIFE: cross-cultural collaboration in lifelong learning and work, 2005-08. http://www.peda.net/veraja/uta/vetculture/crosslife

Searching for the characteristics of Finnish vocational education, since 1995. Research programme.

Fields and Layers of Finnish Adult Education. 

Evaluation of vocational adult education. (http://www.edev.fi/portal/aikuis)

National graduate school KASVA (www.edu.utu/kasva) since 1999. Kasvatus, tieto ja kulttuuri/Education, Knowledge and Culture. Graduate school since 1995/Doctoral Programme in KASVA since 1999. Supervisor and member of management group. http://www.joensuu.fi/sosiologia/ktk/

Transforming Politics of Education and work: research and writing programme, since 2004. Consolidating and developing research in VET and culture-research network. (http://www.peda.net/veraja/uta/vetculture)

Kansan Sivistys Liikkeessä/Popular (people's) Education in Movement-programme since 2003. 

LEONARDO-research project on supporting persons in accreditation of informal and nonformal learning - “LeoSpan” 2004-2006. http://www-it.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/projects/leospan

Member of National council for adult education. (www.minedu.fi )

Chair of Finnish Society for Research on Adult Education. (http://www.protsv.fi/ats/ )

Boards of Finnish Educational Research Association and History of Education network (www.kasvatus.net/ )

Convener of EERA policy studies and politics of education-network (www.eera.ac.uk )

Convener of ESREA Cross-cultural influences in adult education-network, etc. (www.esrea.org )

Series editor of Studies in vocational and continuing education (www.peter.lang.com/ )

Chief editor of Journal Aikuiskasvatus (Adult Education) (www.kvs.fi/kauppa/)