Author:
Andero Kalju

Institute of Social Studies

Lossi 36
51003 Tartu linn,
Tartu linn, Tartumaa
EST
+372 737 5188
yhiskonnateadused@ut.ee
Tartu Ülikooli ühiskonnateaduste instituut
Ragne Kõuts-Klemm
Head of Institute, Associate Professor in Sociology of Journalism
PhD (Media and Communication)
+372 5346 0357 (3197)
Lossi 36–211
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Research interests:
  • media use
  • media systems
  • journalism
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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
Tartu Ülikool ühiskonnateaduste instituut
Veronika Kalmus
Professor of Sociology, Programme Director
PhD (Sociology)
+372 737 6591
+372 5662 3583 (3189)
Lossi 36-219

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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
Tartu Ülikooli ühiskonnateaduste instituut
Halliki Harro-Loit
Professor of Journalism
Dr. rer. pol. (Political Sciences)
+372 737 5189
+372 506 6826 (5189)
Lossi 36-222

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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
Tartu Ülikooli ühiskonnateaduste instituut
Triin Vihalemm
Professor of Communication Studies, Programme Director
PhD (Mass Communication)
+372 504 5720 (3194)
Lossi 36–202

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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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Jean Pierre Lambert Wilken
Visiting Professor
PhD (Social Sciences)
Research profile
Research interests: 

  • relational social work
  • community development
  • social inclusion
  • experiential knowledge
Tartu Ülikool ühiskonnateaduste instituut
Mare Ainsaar
Associate Professor in Sociology and Social Policy
PhD
+372 737 5936
+372 517 8132
Lossi 36–411

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Research interests:
  • well-being research
  • comparative family policy, comparative social policy
  • fertility behaviour, migration, population forecasts
  • methodology of social research
Tartu Ülikool ühiskonnateaduste instituut
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
Tartu Ülikooli ühiskonnateaduste instituut
Judit Strömpl
Associate Professor in Social Work Research
PhD
+372 737 5928
+372 5801 6361 (5928)
Lossi 36–410

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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
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 

 

Dekaanikandidaat Margit Keller
Margit Keller
Associate Professor in Social Communication
PhD (Media and Communication)
+372 506 2801
Lossi 36–202

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Research interests:
  • everyday social practices and their change
  • transition of socio-technical systems
  • sustainable development and consumer society
Tartu Ülikool ühiskonnateaduste instituut
Marju Himma
Associate Professor of Journalism Studies, Programme Director
PhD (Media and Communication)
+372 5341 0997 (6119)
Lossi 36–107

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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
Tartu Ülikool ühiskonnateaduste instituut
Krista Lepik
Lecturer in Information Science
PhD (Media and Communication)
+372 737 5955
+372 5883 7388 (7388)
Lossi 36–209

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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
Tartu Ülikooli ühiskonnateaduste instituut
Dagmar Narusson
Lecturer in Community Work 0.5 p, Research Fellow in Social Innovation 0.5 p
PhD (Sociology)

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Research interests:
  • community development and community relational dynamics
  • open dialogue in mental health
  • personal recovery
  • experiential knowledge in higher education
  • eco-communities
  • sustainability
Kadri Kangro
Visiting Lecturer
Lossi 36–226

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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
Maris Männiste
Lecturer in Critical Data Studies 0.5 p, Programme Director
PhD (Media and Communication)
Lossi 36–208

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Research interests:
  • datafication
  • critical data studies
  • automated welfare
  • automated decision-making
  • artificial intelligence
Karen-Pauliin Konks
Junior Lecturer in Social Welfare 0.5 p
MA (Social Work and Social Policy)
Lossi 36–226
üti
Marii Kangur
Junior Lecturer in Practical Journalism 0.5 p
MA (Journalism)
Merilyn Säde
Junior Lecturer in Practical Communication 0.5 p
MA (Journalism)
Aune Unt
Teacher 0.5 p
MA (Journalism)
Lossi 36–110
Kertu-Kätlin Käis
Teacher of Practical Communication 0.5 p
MA (Communication Management)
Lossi 36–225
Tartu Ülikool ühiskonnateaduste instituut
Oliver Nahkur
Research Fellow of Research of Social Well-being
PhD (Sociology)
Lossi 36–412
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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

 

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Signe Opermann
Research Fellow in Sociology of Media
PhD (Media and Communication)
+372 737 6592
+372 5647 7951
Lossi 36–220

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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
Tartu Ülikool ühiskonnateaduste instituut
Signe Ivask
Research Fellow 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
Ebe Pilt
Junior Research Fellow in Communication Studies
MA (Communication)
Lossi 36

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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
Tartu Ülikooli ühiskonnateaduste instituut
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 
Tartu Ülikool ühiskonnateaduste instituut
Sten Torpan
Junior Research Fellow in Crisis Sociology 0.7 p
MA (Sociology)
Lossi 36–223

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Research interests:
  • risk and crisis communication
  • social myths
  • misinformation
  • information disorder
  • civil protection
  • defence studies

 

Ingeliis Siimsen
Junior Research Fellow in Sociology of Risk
MA (Analysis of Society and Information Processes)
Valeri Nuust
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)
Lossi 36-211

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Research interests:
  • expressions of creative writing in the Estonian press
Alar Suija
Studio Manager
+372 737 5188
+372 507 1737 (3199)
Lossi 36–107
Tartu Ülikool ühiskonnateaduste instituut
Liina-Mai Tooding
Senior Consultant in Data Analysis 0.5 p
cand (Philosophy)
+372 737 5932
+372 527 4712
Lossi 36–413

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Research interests:
  • statistical models in social analysis: methodological aspect
  • life course studies
  • the dynamics of violent death in transition society
Tartu Ülikool
Virge Näkk
Senior Specialist for Academic Affairs 0.7 p
+372 737 5935
Lossi 36–213
Tartu Ülikool ühiskonnateaduste instituut
Nele Nemvalts
Senior Specialist for Academic Affairs
+372 737 5355
Lossi 36–217
Tartu Ülikooli ühiskonnateaduste instituut
Inger Klesment
Specialist for Project Communication and Media Competence
Lossi 36–414
Tartu Ülikooli ühiskonnateaduste instituut
Maiu Reinhold
Specialist for International Relations
+372 737 5697
Lossi 36–217
üti
Riina Gendrikson
Human Resources and Research Cooperation Specialist
MA (English Language and Literature)
Lossi 36–227
Gea Kiisk
Academic Affairs Specialist 0.8 p
+372 737 6593
Lossi 36–212
Tartu Ülikool ühiskonnateaduste instituut
Hanna Kerstina Kartau
Assistant of the Project European Social Survey Infrastructure 0.5 p
Auli Kivistik
Specialist for Projects and Finance
+372 737 6157
Lossi 36–212
üti
Ave Kovaljov
Lecturer in Sociology (employment contract suspended)
PhD (Sociology)

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Research interests:
  • inequality on the labour market (gender, education etc)
  • socioeconomic inequality in health and access to health
  • intergenerational transmission of inequality