Abstract

This seminar provides an overview of latest Finnish research on academic engagement in the digitalised world. First, new research openings shall be introduced by Professor Kirsti Lonka. The biggest of them is a national strategic project Growing Mind. Then Dr. Elina Ketonen shall present her recent doctoral dissertation titled ‘The role of motivation and academic emotions in university studies – The short- and long-term effects on situational experiences and academic achievement.’ Finally, new methodological openings shall be presented, namely, measuring students’ situational emotional experiences and physiological reactions, sleep patterns, and use of technologies in new innovative ways.

PROFILES Kirsti Lonka is professor of educational psychology at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. She is also Extraordinary Professor, North-West University, South Africa and Advisory Board Member at the Graduate Institute of Digital Learning and Education, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.

Elina Ketonen is post-doctoral researcher in educational psychology at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. She defended her thesis with distinction in December 2017. She has used both cross-sectional, longitudinal and experience sampling datasets in her research and several statistical methods, such as variable- and person-oriented approaches, multilevel modelling and most recently, intraindividual analyses.