Jenni Tikkanen
Postdoctoral Fellow
The Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education CELE jenni.tikkanen@utu.fi +358 29 450 2488 +358 50 338 2852 Assistentinkatu 5 Turku Office: 379 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1342-7161 |
youth research; education policy; comparative education; sociology of education; statistical analysis; structural equation modelling; life course research
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) research collegium and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Inequalities, Interventions, and New Welfare State (INVEST) research flagship of the Academy of Finland. My main research interests are related to sociology of education, youth studies, life course research, and international comparative education. In my most recent research, including my doctoral dissertation, I have focused on youth trajectories, educational and societal segregation, and the relations of social change and social reproduction.
In the TIAS collegium, my postdoctoral research project, which is titled ‘Riding High or Hanging on for Dear Life? Reflexivity, Opportunity Structures, and the Formation of Young People’s Life Courses and Biographies in Times of Risk and Uncertainty’, examines how the individualisation of social inequalities, privatisation of risks, and gendered nature of individualisation materialise in ‘objective’ life courses and ‘subjective’ biographies of young people in Finland, Europe, and Australia. I approach the topic by examining the interplay of individual reflexivity and the surrounding opportunity structures.
In addition, I participate actively in two further international research projects: International Study of City Youth (ISCY; iscy.org) and Education Systems, Learning and Social Change (EduSyS; sites.utu.fi/edusys). ISCY is a comparative, longitudinal study focusing on understanding how education systems prepare young people to life beyond school and how young people’s school experiences and achievements influence their careers and life more broadly. EduSys is a longitudinal mixed methods study analysing young people's educational and occupational pathways, particularly from the viewpoint of their skills development and choices made in different transition points in their social contexts.
- Student Disengagement in Finnish Comprehensive Schooling (2023) Finland’s Famous Education System : Unvarnished Insights into Finnish Schooling af Ursin Piia, Tikkanen Jenni, Järvinen Tero
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - The Significance of Socioeconomic Background for the Educational Dispositions and Aspirations of Finnish School Leavers (2023) Finland’s Famous Education System : Unvarnished Insights into Finnish Schooling Järvinen Tero, Tikkanen Jenni, af Ursin Piia
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Exploring Young Adults’ Lifelong Learning Policy Participation Styles: Comparative Perspectives from Finland, Scotland, and Spain (2022) Landscapes of Lifelong Learning Policies across Europe : Comparative Case Studies Tikkanen Jenni, Jacovkis Judith, Vanderhoven Ellen
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Governing the Life Course through Lifelong Learning: A Multilevel and Multidimensional View (2022)
- Societies
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Institutional, Economic-Material, and Discursive Opportunity Structures Influencing Support and Guidance Policies for Young People in Austria, Finland, and Scotland (2022) Landscapes of Lifelong Learning Policies across Europe : Comparative Case Studies Capsada-Munsech Queralt, Chan Ralph, Tikkanen Jenni, Valiente Oscar
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Landscapes of Lifelong Learning Policies Across Europe: Conceptual Lenses (2022) Landscapes of Lifelong Learning Policies across Europe : Comparative Case Studies Benasso Sebastiano, Cefalo Ruggero, Tikkanen Jenni
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Adolescent Social Capital – An Intergenerational Resource? (2021) Tuominen Minna, Tikkanen Jenni
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - Beyond the Unproductive Dualism – Developing Understandings of Structure and Agency in Youth Studies and Life Course Research (2021) Tikkanen Jenni, Jacovkis Judith
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - Increasingly Demanding, Risky, and Destandardised - Young People Coping with Life Course Transitions in the Midst of Societal Changes (2021) Tikkanen Jenni, Barroso-Hurtado Domingo, Guerrero-Puerta Laura
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - Governing the normalisation of young adults through lifelong learning policies (2020) Lifelong Learning Policies for Young Adults in Europe : Navigating between Knowledge and Economy Risto Rinne, Heikki Silvennoinen, Tero Järvinen, Jenni Tikkanen
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Constructing Life Courses in Times of Uncertainty: Individualisation and Social Structures in the Context of Finnish Education (2019) Tikkanen Jenni
(Doctoral dissertation (article) (G5)) - Parental school satisfaction in the context of segregation of basic education in urban Finland (2019)
- Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Student Disengagement in Comprehensive School in Turku, Southwest Finland (2019) Resisting Education: A Cross-National Study on Systems and School Effects Tero Järvinen, Jenni Tikkanen
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Koulutuksen merkitys, koulutustoiveet ja koulutyytyväisyys - Vanhempien näkemyksiä koulusta ja koulutuksesta (2018) Koulutuksen lupaukset ja koulutususko. Kasvatussosiologian vuosikirja 2 Tikkanen Jenni, Lempinen Sonia
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Young Adulllt - National Briefing Papers with national and regional data sets. Work Package 4: Quantitative Analysis Young Adults’ Data (2018) Ruggero Cefalo, Yuri Kazepov, Valentina Milenkova, Stanimir Kabaivanov, Kaloyan Haralampiev,
Georgi Apostolov, Siyka Kovacheva, Vlatka Domović, Dejana Bouillet, Monika Pažur, Heikki Silvennoinen, Anna L. Eskola, Tero Järvinen, Risto Rinne, Jenni Tikkanen, Sarah Schaufler, Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Thomas Verlage, Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Mauro Palumbo, Anna Siri, Mauro Migliavacca, Mariana Rodrigues, Ana Bela Ribeiro, Tiago Neves, António José Almeida, Natália Alves, Rita Queiroga, Kristinn Hermannsson, Rosario Scandurra, Xavier Rambla
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - Young Adulllt - National Qualitative Analysis Reports. Work Package 5: Qualitative Analysis (2018) Mirjam Pot, Lukas Alexander, Ruggero Defalo, Siyka Kovacheva, Borislava Petkova, Blaga Madzurova, Dobrinka Stoyanova, Stefan Raychev, Valentina Milenkova, Georgi Apostolov, Petrana Stoikova, Vladislava Lendjova, Dejana Bouillet, Monika Pazur, Vlatka Domovic, JenniTikkanen, Tero Järvinen, Anna Eskola, Risto Rinne, Heikki Silvennoinen, Thomas Verlage, Alina Boutiuc-Kaiser, Sarah Schaufler, Mauro Palumbo, Sebastiano Benasso, Anna Cossetta, Anna Siri, Valeria Pandolfini, Mariana Rodrigues, Ana Bela Ribeiro, Tiago Neves, Natalia Alves, Rita Queiroga, Antonio Almeida, Lesley Doyle, Xavier Rambla, Judith Jacovkis, Rocio Lorente Garcia, Laura Guerrero, Antonio Luzon
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - Young Adulllt - National Reports on national strategies to govern the supply and demand of skills. Work Package 6: Comparative Analysis Skills Supply and Demand (2018) Mirjam Pot, Ruggero Cefalo, Yuri Kazepov, Yulia Dzhabarova, Petko Miran, Valentina Milenkova, Georgi Apostolov, Vlatka Domović, Dejana Bouillet, Monika Pažur, Risto Rinne, Tero Järvinen, Heikki Silvennoinen, Jenni Tikkanen, Raakel Plamper, Anne Weiler, Jan Peter Ganter de Otero, Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Alina Boutiuc-Kaiser, Sarah Schaufler, Thomas Verlage, Mauro Palumbo, Sebastiano Benasso, Anna Cossetta, Mauro Migliavacca, Valeria Pandolfini, Anna Siri, Sonia Startari, Ana Bela Ribeiro, Mariana Rodrigues, Tiago Neves, Rita Queiroga, Natália Alves, António José Almeida, Queralt Capsada-Munsech, Oscar Valiente, Judith Jacovkis, Xavier Rambla, Domingo Barroso, Mónica Torres, Antonio Luzón
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - Changes in Education Policies and the Status of Schools in Europe - The views of school principals from eight European countries (2016)
- Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Concern or confidence? Adolescents' identity capital and future worry in different school contexts – Adolescents' identity capital and future worry in different school contexts (2016)
- Journal of Adolescence
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - The Diversity of Education and Welfare Systems in Europe (2016) Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe - Pathways, Policy and Practice Jenni Tikkanen, Andy Biggart, Axel Pohl
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3))