Marjaana Puurtinen
PhD, Adj. Prof.
marjaana.puurtinen@utu.fi +358 29 450 3636 +358 50 339 4928 Assistentinkatu 5 Turku Office: 430 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1972-2268 |
Areas of expertise
Conceptual change; Expertise in music; Expertise in history; Eye-tracking; Music reading; Text and graphics comprehension
Conceptual change; Expertise in music; Expertise in history; Eye-tracking; Music reading; Text and graphics comprehension
Biography
Formerly Penttinen.
Education and degrees
- 2019: Adjunct Professor (title of docent), Faculty of Education, University of Oulu
- 2016: Master of Arts (European and World History), University of Turku
- 2013: PhD (Education), University of Turku
- 2006: Master of Arts (Education), University of Turku
Academic positions
- 2021-2026: Academy Research Fellow, Dept. of Teacher Education, University of Turku
- 2019- (on leave 2021-2026) University Lecturer, Dept. of Teacher Education. Including research duties at the Functional Foods Forum, Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku
- 2017-2018: Senior Researcher, Dept. of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku (part-time)
- 2018: Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Teacher Education, University of Turku. (part-time)
- 2015-2017: Postdoctoral Researcher, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku.
- 2014: Postdoctoral Researcher, grant, Finnish Cultural Foundation.
- 2013-2014: University Lecturer, Dept. of Teacher Education, University of Turku. (part-time)
- 2012-2013: Coordinator, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku. (part-time)
- 2011-2012: Researcher, Dept. of Teacher Education, University of Turku.
- 2007-2011: Doctoral Student, Dept. of Teacher Education, University of Turku.
Selected administrative duties
- Coordinator, Turku Eye-Tracking Laboratories, University of Turku
- Board member, Executive Board of Research development, Faculty of Education
Research
- PI/Academy Research Fellow, "Eye on history: How experts and novices deal with visual representations of the past". Academy of Finland, 2021-2026.
- Researcher at the Functional Foods Forum, "Senses and Food" team. Academy of Finland (funding for research profiling at Finnish universities), 2019-2021.
- Consortium coordinator and post-doctoral researcher, "Reading music: Eye movements and the development of expertise". Prof. Erkki Huovinen (PI), University of Jyväskylä and Royal College of Music in Stockholm & Prof. Hans Gruber (PI), University of Regensburg and University of Turku. Academy of Finland, 2014-2018.
- PI/Post-doctoral Researcher, "Looking at music: Eye movements and the development of music-reading skill". Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, 2015-2017.
- Co-applicant and post-doctoral researcher, "Visual literacy as part of expertise in history". Prof. Arja Virta (PI), Marjaana Puurtinen and Markus Nivala. Finnish Cultural Foundation, announced in 2013.
- PhD candidate, The Finnish Doctoral Programme in Education and Learning (funding for 4,5 years), announced in 2006.
Teaching
- 1st supervisor for one completed PhD thesis. 1st supervisor for two and 2nd or 3rd supervisor for two PhD candidates at the Faculty of Education, Univ. of Turku.
- Supervisor for over 70 MA or BA theses at the Dept. of Teacher Education, Univ. of Turku.
- Extensive experience in, e.g., teaching research methods and reporting in educational sciences.
Publications
- Regrounding Inquiry-Based Learning in History: A Study of Historians’ Epistemic Processes (2025)
- Cognition and Instruction
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Cognitive Mechanisms in Temporally Controlled Rhythm Reading: Evidence From Eye Movements (2023)
- Music Perception
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Aims in the practice of historiography: An interview study with Finnish historians (2022)
- Historical Encounters
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Historians’ criteria for appraising historiography: An interview study (2022)
- Proceedings : International Conference of the Learning Sciences
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Investigating visual attention toward foods in a salad buffet with mobile eye tracking (2021)
- Food Quality and Preference
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Soi torpat ja salongit - Spel i stuga och salong (2021) Marianne Maans, Marjaana Puurtinen
(F1 Published independent work of art) - Food Consumption and Emotions at a Salad Lunch Buffet in a Multisensory Environment (2020)
- Foods
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Handling of incongruences in music notation during singing or playing (2020)
- International Journal of Music Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Preface-7th international workshop on Eye Movements in Programming (EMIP) (2020) Proceedings, ETRA 2020 short papers : ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications : Stuttgart, Germany, June 02-05, 2020 Sharif B., Peitek N., Puurtinen Marjaana
(Other publication) - When you ignore what you see: How to study proof-readers’ error in pseudocode reading (2020) ETRA '20 Short Papers: ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications Natalia Chitalkina, Roman Bednarik, Marjaana Puurtinen, Hans Gruber
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Historians and conceptual change in history itself: The domain as a unit of analysis (2019)
- International Journal of Educational Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Prediction as a prerequisite of skilled reading: The cases of source-code and music notation (2019) Proceedings of the 19th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research Chitalkina Natalia, Bednarik Roman, Puurtinen Marjaana, Gruber Hans
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Successful approaches to mental practice: A case study of four pianists (2019)
- Music Performance Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - When “doing” matters: The emergence of group-level regulation in planning for a music lesson (2019)
- Music Education Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Early attraction in temporally controlled sight reading of music (2018)
- Journal of Eye Movement Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Eye on Music Reading: A Methodological Review of Studies from 1994 to 2017 (2018)
- Journal of Eye Movement Research
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Learning on the job: Rethinks and realizations about the use of eye tracking in music-reading studies (2018)
- Frontline learning research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Playing profiles in a mathematics game based on eye movement and game log data (2018)
- Journal of Eye Movement Research
(Other publication) - "Epäkonferenssin" keinoin käsiksi ihmistieteiden teoreettisiin ja metodologisiin käänteisiin. [Tackling the theoretical and methodological turns in human sciences with the “unconference” format] (2017)
- Yliopistopedagogiikka
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Monitieteinen näkökulma historian asiantuntijuuteen (2016)
- Historiallinen Aikakauskirja
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)