Helena Hirvonen works as a senior lecturer of Social and Public Policy at the University of Eastern Finland, where she is the coordinator of the Research Consortium ‘Al-driven platform care: Promoting equal and inclusive job quality in long-term care’ (JPI/MYBL 2025-28). She received her doctorate in 2014 from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, where she has since been affiliated with the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (2018-25), researching new technologies, ageing and care. Her research interests include welfare services and policies, digitalisation of care and work, gendered workplace relations and feminist theory.
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Helena Hirvonen, PhD, Senior lecturer
University of Eastern Finland
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Publications
Jokinen, E., Hirvonen, H., Mankki, L., Aho, T., & Lehto, I. (2024). Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism: Lean in Action. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003309789
Hirvonen, H., Tammelin, M., Hänninen, R., & Wouters, E. J. M. (2021). Digital Transformations in Care for Older People: Critical Perspectives. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003155317
Mankki, L., Aho, T., & Hirvonen, H. (2023). Common sense put to work: The capitalisation of affects in the introduction of a Lean management model to healthcare professionals. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology (Print), 10(2), 309–330. https://doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2022.2156905
Jokinen, E., Hirvonen, H., Mankki, L., Aho, T., & Lehto, I. (2024). Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism: Lean in Action. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003309789