Helena Hirvonen, PhD, Senior lecturer

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.