Hirvonen, Helena
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5997-4606 Senior Lecturer, Social and Public Policy, University of Eastern Finland
Description of research
I received my doctorate in 2014 from Univ. of Jyväskylä where I am affiliated as a University researcher in the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare, 2018-25). My permanent position is as a Senior Lecturer of Social and Public Policy at the University of Eastern Finland, where I'm the director of the Research Consortium ‘Al-driven platform care: Promoting equal and inclusive job quality in long-term care’ JPI/MYBL 2025-28) and the project 'Formations of Hybrid Manhood in the Experience Economy' (Kone Foundation, 2021-25). Before this, I served as the vice-director of the project 'Lean Production in Public Services: New formations of work and gender in biocapitalism' (Research Council of Finland, 2018-22). In the past, I have also worked in the following projects: 'Impact of local welfare systems on female labour force participation and social cohesion' (2011-2014 FP7); 'Violence, Professional Practices and Occupational Health in Social and Health Care Sector' (2011-13 Emil Aaltonen Foundation); and 'Encountering Violence in Social and Health Care Organizations' (2011-14 Research Council of Finland). My research interests include welfare services and policies, welfare state restructuration, care professions and organisations, feminist theory, gendered workplace relations, and digitalisation of work. My dissertation dealt with welfare state transformation from the point of view of front-line workers in health and social care services.Affiliations
University of Eastern Finland
Unit
Department of Social Sciences
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Title
Senior Lecturer, Social and Public Policy 2016 -
University of Jyväskylä
Unit
Department of Social Sciences
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Title
University Teacher, Doctor of Social Sciences 2014 - 2016
Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy
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Senior Researcher 2018 - 2019
Education
Degrees
Doctoral Candidate of Social Sciences 2007 - 2014 / University of Jyväskylä
Publications (39)
Common sense put to work : The capitalisation of affects in the introduction of a Lean management model to healthcare professionals
Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism : Lean in Action
Mankki, Laura; Aho, Timo; Hirvonen, Helena
European journal of cultural and political sociology
2023
Conclusion
2023
Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism : Lean in Action
Jokinen, Eeva; Hirvonen, Helena; Mankki, Laura; Aho, Timo; Lehto, Iiris
Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
2023