Ragne Kõuts-Klemm
Head of Institute, Associate Professor in Sociology of Journalism
PhD (Media and Communication)
Lossi 36
51003 Tartu linn,
Tartu linn, Tartumaa
EST
51003 Tartu linn,
Tartu linn, Tartumaa
EST
+372 737 5188
yhiskonnateadused@ut.ee
Institute of Social Studies
Merle Linno
Deputy Head of Academic Affairs, Junior Lecturer in Social Welfare, Programme Director
mag (Social Work)
Lossi 36–226
Andra Siibak
Deputy Head of Research and Development, Professor in Media Studies, Programme Director
PhD (Media and Communication)
Lossi 36–208
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Research interests:
- privacy
- datafication
- mediatized parenting
- social media use
Veronika Kalmus
Professor of Sociology, Programme Director
PhD (Sociology)
CV in Research Information System
Research interests:
- mediatization, datafication, platformization and AI
- social transformation
- social generations and media generations
- processes of socialisation and education
- digital skills and media literacy
- value orientations and mental structures
Halliki Harro-Loit
Professor of Journalism
Dr. rer. pol. (Political Sciences)
CV in Research Information System
Research interests:
- journalism studies and media education
- communication history, law, ethics and policy
- discourse analysis of media content
- media law and communication ethics
- accountability systems
- online journalism
Kairi Kasearu
Professor of Empirical Sociology, Programme Director
PhD (Sociology)
Triin Vihalemm
Professor of Communication Studies, Programme Director
PhD (Mass Communication)
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Research interests:
- ethnic relations
- collective identities
- transition culture
- communication for social change
- media use and everyday practices
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Research interests:
- transition studies
- deep transitions
- science, technology and innovation studies
Jean Pierre Lambert Wilken
Visiting Professor
PhD (Social Sciences)
Research profile
Research interests:
- relational social work
- community development
- social inclusion
- experiential knowledge
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Research interests:
- sociology of sustainability
- risk and crisis sociology
Dagmar Kutsar
Associate Professor in Social Policy
PhD (Psychology)
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Research interests:
- government communication
- risk and crisis communication
- critical discourse studies
Margit Keller
Associate Professor in Social Communication
PhD (Media and Communication)
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Research interests:
- everyday social practices and their change
- transition of socio-technical systems
- sustainable development and consumer society
Maria Murumaa-Mengel
Associate Professor of Media Studies
PhD (Media and Communication)
Lossi 36–414
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Research interests:
- digital media literacies
- online risks and opportunities
- online shaming
- influencer culture
- children and youth
- creative research methods
Marju Himma
Associate Professor of Journalism Studies, Programme Director
PhD (Media and Communication)
CV in Research Information System
Research interests:
- journalistic work practices and skills
- digitalisation of journalism
- media consumption among youth
- science communication
- information disorder in relation to journalism and science communication
Mare Ainsaar
Associate Professor in Sociology and Social Policy
PhD
CV in Research Information System
Research interests:
- well-being research
- comparative family policy, comparative social policy
- fertility behaviour, migration, population forecasts
- methodology of social research
Mai Beilmann
Associate Professor of Empirical Sociology
PhD (Sociology)
Lossi 36–412
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Research interests:
- youth and childhood studies
- wellbeing and vulnerability of children and young people
- youth civic participation
- youth work and NEET-youth
- social capital and generalised social trust
Judit Strömpl
Associate Professor in Social Work Research
PhD
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Research interests:
- children's rights and well-being
- trauma-informed substitute care
- sensitive topics
- children and youth at risk
- sociology of deviance
- qualitative research methods
Marko Uibu
Associate Professor of Social Innovation, Programme Director
PhD (Theology)
Lossi 36–225
Toomas Saarsen
Lecturer in Analysis of Information Processes 0.9 p
PhD (Computer Science)
Lossi 36–220
Ave Kovaljov
Lecturer in Sociology 0.4 p
PhD (Sociology)
CV in Research Information System
Research interests:
- inequality on the labour market (gender, education etc)
- socioeconomic inequality in health and access to health
- intergenerational transmission of inequality
Kristjan Kikerpill
Lecturer in Information Law and Digital Sociology
PhD (Sociology)
Lossi 36–208
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Research interests:
- criminology
- cybercrime
- social engineering
- surveillance
- artificial intelligence in education
Maris Männiste
Lecturer in Critical Data Studies 0.5 p
PhD (Media and Communication)
Lossi 36–208
CV in Research Information System
Research interests:
- datafication
- critical data studies
- automated welfare
- automated decision-making
- artificial intelligence
Kadri Soo
Lecturer in Social Welfare, Programme Director
PhD (Sociology)
Lossi 36–411
Dagmar Narusson
Lecturer in Community Work 0.5 p, Research Fellow in Social Innovation 0.5 p
PhD (Sociology)
CV in Research Information System
Research interests:
- community development and community relational dynamics
- open dialogue in mental health
- personal recovery
- experiential knowledge in higher education
- eco-communities
- sustainability
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Research interests:
- social innovation in rural areas combined with practical work
- supportive ecosystem for co-creation
- social innovation, innovation development
- rural community development
- health and welfare; health economics
- hackathon as a tool of co-creation of innovative solutions in the public arena
Krista Lepik-Verliin
Lecturer in Information Science 0.1 p
PhD (Media and Communication)
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Research interests:
- library and museum communication and community development
- knowledge workers’ practices in the context of social acceleration
- developments in information literacy, incl information sciences perspective to usage of AI chatbots in students’ written assignments
Karen-Pauliin Konks
Junior Lecturer in Social Welfare 0.5 p
MA (Social Work and Social Policy)
Lossi 36–226
CV in Research Information System
Research interests:
- survey methodology
- postsocialist societies
- social stratification
Mari-Liis Tikerperi
Junior Lecturer in Research Basics
MA (School Leadership)
Lossi 36–225
Kaspar Kruup
Junior Lecturer in Communication Sciences 0.8 p, Programme Director
MA (Communication Management)
Lossi 36–225
Külliki Seppel
Junior Lecturer in Media and Social Theories, Programme Director
Lossi 36–225
Marii Kangur
Junior Lecturer in Practical Journalism 0.5 p
MA (Journalism)
Lossi 36
Merilyn Säde
Junior Lecturer in Practical Communication 0.5 p
MA (Journalism)
Lossi 36
Kertu-Kätlin Käis
Teacher of Practical Communication 0.5 p
MA (Communication Management)
Lossi 36–225
Eleri Lõhmus
Teacher of Audiovisual Production 0.5 p
MA (Journalism)
Lossi 36–222
Brit Laak
Teacher of Television Journalism, Programme Director
MA (Journalism)
Tiia-Triin Truusa
Research Fellow in Military Sociology 0.2 p
PhD (Sociology)
Lossi 36–226
CV in Research Information System
Research interests:
- civil-military relations
- recruitment and retention
- PME and veterans
Oliver Nahkur
Research Fellow of Research of Social Well-being
PhD (Sociology)
Lossi 36–412
CV in Research Information System
Research interests:
- social indicators research, including from cross-national comparative studies perspective
- quality-of-life (QOL), happiness, and wellbeing studies, including mental health
- child well-being and vulnerability research
- violence and conflicts in society
- inclusive disaster management, including informal volunteering
- healthcare research
Signe Opermann
Research Fellow in Sociology of Media
PhD (Media and Communication)
CV in Research Information System
Research interests:
- media use and media repertoires
- mediatization and platformization
- social generations and media generations
- digital skills and literacy
- socio-technical imaginaries of future education
Signe Ivask
Research Fellow of Sociology of Journalism
PhD (Media and Communication)
Lossi 36–107
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Research interests:
- sociology of journalism
- digital journalism
- burnout among journalists, support systems
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Research interests:
- history of science
- technology and medicine
- transnational history
- colonial history
Maia Klaassen
Junior Research Fellow in Media Competence, Programme Director
MA (Journalism and Communication)
CV in Research Information System
Research interests:
- communication processes of scientific knowledge in the current context of deep mediatisation and media logic
- framework of dialogic or deliberative concepts and new formats of science communication
Kadi Kass
Junior Research Fellow in Community Work
MA (Community Development and Social Well-being)
Lossi 36–226
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Research interests:
- people with mental health difficulties
- community development
- social well-being
Virgo Siil
Junior Research Fellow in Sociology of Journalism
MA (Journalism)
Lossi 36
Ida Joao-Hussar
Junior Research Fellow of Community Development
MA
Lossi 36-412
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Research interests:
- social and community welfare
- sociology of risk and crisis, crisis management
Kristina Seimann
Junior Research Fellow in Communication Studies
Lossi 36–208
Valeri Nuust
Teacher in Creative Methods (employment contract suspended) 0.3 p, Junior Research Fellow of Creative Methods 0.5 p, Programme Director
MA (Journalism)
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Research interests:
- expressions of creative writing in the Estonian press
Ingeliis Siimsen
Junior Research Fellow in Sociology of Risk
MA (Analysis of Society and Information Processes)
Lossi 36
Anna Helena Liiv
Junior Research Fellow in Sustainability Transitions Studies
MA (History)
Lossi 36
Ahmed Atia Ali Atia Rezk
Junior Research Fellow in Sociology of Resilience
MSc (Urban and Regional Development Planning and Management)
Lossi 36–223
Michael Christopher Cronin
Junior Research Fellow in Strategic Communication and Security
mag (International Relations)
Lossi 36
Maria Žuravljova
Junior Research Fellow in Youth and Childhood Sociology 0.5 p
MA (Social Work and Social Policy)
Kristi Asser
Junior Research Fellow in Well-being Research
MA (Social Work and Social Policy)
Lossi 36
Bogdana Androsjuk
Junior Research Fellow in Sociology of Transition
MSc
Lossi 36
Liina Maurer
Junior Research Fellow in Sustainability Transitions Studies
MA (French Language and Literature)
Lossi 36
Kristi Nero
Junior Research Fellow in Crisis Sociology 0.3 p
MA (Internal security)
Lossi 36–223
Sten Torpan
Junior Research Fellow in Crisis Sociology 0.8 p
MA (Sociology)
Lossi 36–223
CV in Research Information System
Research interests:
- risk and crisis communication
- social myths
- misinformation
- information disorder
- civil protection
- defence studies
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Research interests:
- digital culture
- online shaming
- networked misogyny
- social norms online
- digital media literacies
Liina-Mai Tooding
Senior Consultant in Data Analysis 0.5 p
cand (Philosophy)
CV in Research Information System
Research interests:
- statistical models in social analysis: methodological aspect
- life course studies
- the dynamics of violent death in transition society
Margit Meiesaar
Project Manager 0.3 p
MA (Media and Communication)
+372 737 5959
Riina Gendrikson
Human Resources and Research Cooperation Specialist
MA (English Language and Literature)
Häli Tarum
Consultant of Social Policy 0.75 p
MA (Social Work and Social Policy)
Lossi 36–226
Annaliisa Post
Specialist for Project Communication and Media Competence
Lossi 36–414
Marit Napp
Analyst (employment contract suspended) 0.5 p
Anna-Kati Pahker
Analyst (employment contract suspended) 0.8 p
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Research interests:
- sustainability
- sustainability transitions
- deep transitions
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Research interests: