One of my central research interests is environmentally oriented narratives. I investigate topics such as how people discuss stories about the environment and climate change, and how narratives can trigger people to think differently about the nonhuman world. I’m especially interested in climate fiction -fiction focused on climate change- and its potential to help us make sense of climate change as well as trigger fresh thinking and acting in relation to it.
I’m also interested in human interactions with smart devices and mobile applications. In one of my papers, currently in peer review, I try to understand our relationships and interactions with personal smart devices from the perspective of who can do what and who not -who has the ultimate power to act? See more here. Another project I’m working on concerns spiritual mobile applications and how people use them as a support when practicing forms of modern or alternative spirituality.
I am also fascinated by health psychology and therapeutic interventions. I’m involved in a PhD study focusing on a positive psychological group intervention for people suffering from cardiovascular conditions and in another one concerning a group rehabilitation for people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Yet another PhD project where I’m a co-author concerns a narrative group therapy intervention for people with personality disorders.
Previously, during my PhD studies at the University of Jyväskylä, I was involved in studying the discursive construction of agency and nonagency in psychotherapeutic conversations. More information about the research group here (only in Finnish): https://www.jyu.fi/edupsy/fi/laitokset/psykologia/tutkimus/tutkimusalueet/kliininen-psykologia-ja-psykoterapia/toimijuuden-ja-sen-puutteiden-diskursiivinen-tuottaminen-psykoterapeuttisissa-keskusteluissa