Marjaana Puurtinen
PhD, Title of Docent
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
Expertise development; Visual expertise; Epistemic Cognition; Music; History; Eye tracking
Expertise development; Visual expertise; Epistemic Cognition; Music; History; Eye tracking
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
Recent 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.
Selected administrative duties
- Coordinator, Turku Eye-tracking Laborotories
- Board member, University of Turku Graduate School
- Vice-director, Doctoral Programme on Learning, Teaching and Learning Environments
- Board member, Executive Board of Research development, Faculty of Education
Other skills
- Folk musician, arranger, composer and music pedagogue.
Research
Funded research projects
- PI/Academy Research Fellow, "Eye on history: How experts and novices deal with visual representations of the past". Research Council of Finland, 2021-2026.
- Researcher at the Functional Foods Forum, "Senses and Food" team. Research Council 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. Research Council 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
- Primary supervisor for one completed PhD thesis and primary/secondary/third supervisor for five PhD Researchers 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
- 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) - Reading ahead: adult music students' eye movements in temporally controlled performances of a children's song (2015)
- International Journal of Music Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Visual Sources and Historical Thinking in Higher Education (2015)
- Nordidactica : Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Conceptual Change, Text Comprehension and Eye Movements During Reading (2013)
- Research in Science Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Nuotinluku ja silmänliikkeet – Lectio Praecursoria (2013)
- Finnish Journal of Music Education
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Piste janalla, pisara meressä – Historianopiskelijoiden käsityksiä ajasta ja historiasta (2013) Relatiivisuuden ylistys: kirjoituksia tieteen ja tieteiden historiasta Penttinen Marjaana
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Silent music reading: Amateur musicians' visual processing and descriptive skill (2013)
- Musicae Scientiae
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Skill Development in Music Reading: the Eye-Movement Approach (2013) Penttinen Marjaana
(G5 Article dissertation )



