Curriculum vitae

Suvi Salmenniemi
4.12.2023
Orchid id: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9339-8673

Academic education

2007: Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Helsinki, Finland
2000: Master of Social Sciences (Major: Sociology), University of Tampere, Finland
2011: Title of Docent in Sociology, University of Tampere, Finland

Professional positions
Current: Professor of Sociology, University of Turku (1.9.2017-), Head of Sociology Unit
2017–2022: Head of BA degree program in the Social Sciences, University of Turku
2014–2017: Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Turku
2012–2013: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Turku
2009–2012: research fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
Spring term 2014: Fellowship awarded by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, UK
2008–2010: Post-doctoral researcher in the project Welfare, Gender and Agency in Russia in the 2000s, University of Helsinki
2007–2008: Post-doctoral researcher in the project Making a ‘Good Life’: Post-Soviet Selves in Russian Mass Media 1980-2006, University of Tampere
2002–2005: PhD researcher in the project Contrasting Russian Others: Gender and Nationality in Cultural, Historical and Literary Discourses of the 20th Century, University
of Tampere Recent major research funding as PI
Towards post-fossil working life: Ecologically and socially sustainable work in the age of ecocrisis (The Finnish Work Environment Fund, 160,000 EUR, 2023-2024)
Political Imagination and Alternative Futures, Research Council for the Social Sciences and Humanities (420,000 EUR, 2020-2024)
Contestation of Health and Wellbeing in the Nordic Countries, Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (42,900 EUR, 2020-2023).
Tracking the Therapeutic: Ethnographies of wellbeing, Politics and Inequality, Research Council for the Social Sciences and Humanities (526,000€, 2015-2019).

Foreign visits and fellowships
2019: Visiting scholar, Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology, University of Edinburgh (1 month)
2016: Visiting fellow, University of Florence, Italy (1 month)
2014: Fellowship awarded by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, UK (3 months)
2005: Visiting scholar, European Research Institute, University of Birmingham, UK (3 months)
2001-2004: Visiting scholar, Tver’ State University, Centre for Women’s History and Gender Studies, Russia (7 months)
Professional service
Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Political Power (April 2023-)
Editor-in-chief of the journal Acta Sociologica (2015-2018)
Associate Editorial Board member of the journal Sociology (2019-2022)
Editorial Board member of Acta Sociologica (2021-)
Editorial Board member of Sosiologia -Finnish Journal of Sociology (2016-2017)
Editorial Board member of Idäntutkimus – Finnish Journal of Russian and East European Studies (2002-2012)
Research funding evaluation: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Estonian Research Council; Islandic Research Council for the Social Sciences and Humanities; ERC grant reviewer (twice); reviewer for major research funding agencies in Finland
Commentator for a policy brief “Cultural contexts of health”, WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2016.
Member of the University Board, University of Turku (2022-2024)
Member of the board of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Turku (2022-2024)
Member of the Collegiate Council of the University of Turku (2018-2021)
Chair of the Teaching Skills Evaluation Committee, University of Turku (2017-2021)
Member of the graduate school board, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Turku (2017-2023)
Member of the University of Turku Equality Committee (2013-2019)
Member of the Steering Group of the new strategy for the University of Turku (2019)
Founder and chair of Culture and Interaction – research network, University of Turku (2014-2021)
Deputy-chair of the advisory board, the Centre for the Research of Culture and Health, University of Turku (2014-2021)
Board member of the Finnish Association of Sociologists (Westermarck Society) (2019-2020)
External examiner for seven doctoral dissertations; public opponent for six dissertations; external examiner abroad: University of Glasgow (2014), Western Sydney University (2022)

Evaluation of academic competence
External examiner for nine doctoral dissertations, opponent for six dissertations; External examiner and member of the dissertation committee abroad: University of Glasgow (2014), Western Sydney University (2022)
Professor of Sociology, University of Lapland, Finland (2023)
Professor of Sociology, Linköping University (2022)
Professor of Sociology, University of Lund (2018)
Associate Professor of Sociology (York St John University)
Professor of Border Studies, University of Eastern Finland (2021)
Professor of Sociology, University of Eastern Finland (2022)
Professor of Sociology, Södertörn university (2018)
Reader position, King’s College London (2019)
Lecturer in Sociology, University of Jyväskylä (2015)
5 evaluations for the title of docent

Reviewer experience

I have acted as a referee for a wide range of international journals, including:
American Ethnologist; British Journal of Sociology; Sociology; The Sociological Review; European Journal of Women’s Studies; Public Understanding of Science; Political and Cultural Sociology; Gender, Work and Organization; Mobilization; Theory, Housing and Society; Sociological Perspectives; Qualitative Sociology; Family Studies; Transcultural Psychiatry; Social Identities; International Social Work; Ethnography; Foucault Studies; Feminist Media Studies; Acta Sociologica; Europe-Asia Studies; Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (NORA); International Journal of Comparative Sociology; European Journal for Research on the Education
and Learning of Adults Invited referee for the following publishing houses: Ashgate, Palgrave, Routledge, Policy Press, Lexington Books, Goldsmiths Press.

Teaching and supervision experience

I have successfully supervised 8 PhD dissertations to completion. I am currently supervising four PhD students. My teaching has focused on political sociology, cultural studies, social theory, social change, therapeutic culture, sociological imagination and qualitative research methods, particularly
ethnography. I have teaching experience on undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels.

Most significant scholarly honours and prizes
2013: Teacher of the Year award by the student alliance of the University of Turku

Language proficiency

Finnish: mother tongue
English: excellent
Russian: very good
Swedish: good
German: good