CURRICULUM VITAE
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Address
Telephone
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E-mail
Sunnari
Vappu Hillevi
Faculty of Education, P.O. Box 2000, FIN-90014 University of Oulu
+358 - 8 – 5533720
+358 - 8 - 5533744
vsunnari@ktk.oulu.fi
EDUCATION
 Matriculation examination 28th May 1971;
 Bachelor’s degree in education 27th May 1975;
 Primary school teacher’s diploma 25th April 1977;
 Master of Education 16th December 1986;
 Licentiate in education 26th February 1991;
 Doctor of education 2nd September 1997
EMPLOYMENT RECORD
 Primary school teacher in Muhos 1.1.1977 – 31.7.1977; Primary school teacher in Kemi 1.8.1977 –
31.7.1978; Primary school teacher in Pudasjärvi 1.8.1978 – 31.7.1979; Primary school teacher in
Ruukki 1.8.1979 – 31.7.1981; Primary school teacher in Ii 1.8.1981 - 31.7.1987
 Assistant in education, University of Oulu 1.8.1987 – 31.12.1991; Assistant professor in education,
University of Oulu 1.1.1992 – 31.12.1994; Assistant in education, University of Oulu 1.1.1995 –
31.5.1995; Assistant professor in education, University of Oulu 1.6.1995 – 31.4.1998
 Assistant professor in women studies 1.5.1998 – 30.4.2003
OTHER DUTIES, TASKS, POSITIONS
 Leader of the network “Gendered Violence in Schools and Teacher Education in the Barents Region”,
financed by the Nordic research programme “Gender and violence, 2001 - .
 Leader of the first meeting of the network “Gendered Violence in Schools and Teacher Education in
the Barents Region”, held in Oulu, Finland March 23 – 25, 2001.
 Leader of the research course “Sexism and Violence in Schools as Research targets”, financed by
NorFA, and held in Oulu, Finland March 25 – 30, 2001.
 Co-ordinator and lecturer in the state level workshop “Sexual harassment as a form of gendered
violence in schools”, the workshop being a part of the seminar “Arbitration in the school violence”
organised by the Finland’s National Board of Education, in Helsinki, Finland, March 15 – 16, 2001.
 Leader of the research project “Gendered Violence in Schools”, financed by the Finnish Academy,
August 1st 2000 – December 31st 2003.
 Co-ordinator (with the main responsibility) of the state level Women’s Studies Conference entitled
”Challenges of globalisation, multicultural issues and locality”, held in November 17 – 18, 2000,
Oulu, Finland.
 Leader of the workshop ”Schools, gendered violence and sex education” in the state level Women’s
Studies Conference entitled ”Challenges of globalisation, multicultural issues and locality”, held in
November 17 – 18, 2000, Oulu, Finland.
 Leader and co-ordinator of the Nordic and North-West Russian workshop “Gendered violence and
school-children / infants, held in Oulu, Finland August 31st – September 3d, 2000 and financed by
NCM/CIMO.
 Co-ordinator and one of the three leaders of the Nordic and North-West Russian seminar titled ”Societies
in transition - values in transition: values of the youth in the North” in Petrodzavodsk, 25 th - 27th April
1999; and leader and co-ordinator of its sub-seminar “Anti-violent sex-education at school” in
Petrodzavodsk, 24th April 1999, the both seminars being financed by NorFA.
 Member in the NCRB project (A network for Crisis centres for Women in the Russian Barents Region),
a Joint Nordic – NW Russian Development and Research Project, 1999 – 2001, led by dos. Aino
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Saarinen and financied by Ministry of Social and Health Affairs, Finland, Nordic Counsil of Ministers,
karelia Interreg II programme, Barents Secretariat and Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Norway.
Finnish research co-ordinator in Femina Borealis – Women and development in the North since 1997.
Member in the network co-operation on the field of Barents youth, lead by dos. Tommi Hoikkala,
Research Director, Finnish Youth Research Network, since 1999.
Oulu co-ordinator of the ATHENA (Advanced Thematic Network in activities in Women’s Studies in
Europe) Socrates-project 1999 – 2001.
Member in the research section of TANE since 1996.
Member in the editorial staff of Acta Universitatis Ouluencis since 1999.
Editor of Acta Universitatis Ouluensis series E (Scientiae rerum socialium) since 1999.
Deputy member for the committee on Teacher education in Sami-language in Oulu, since 1999.
Oulu co-ordinator in Nord-Lilia project I, II 1992 – 1994 and after that in a reading project connected
with it.
SPECIALIZATION
 Women and gender studies, Educational science.
 Qualification to research teacher education and its history with a special focus on women, gender
end equity.
 Qualification to research classroom interaction with a special focus on gender.
 Qualification to research other problems of institutional teaching and learning.
 Qualification to research university studies as observed from the perspectives of equity and gender
in different faculties at the University of Oulu.
 Qualification to develop context specific and gender-sensitive pedagogy.
 Qualification to research and to teach ethical issues of education with a special emphases on
human rights, justice and equity.
 Qualification in international network co-operation
 Specialisation on action research and its feminist critic; on activity theoretical research; on narrative
research and on discourse analysis and its feminist critic.
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