Petri Nokelainen

Ph.D., Professor (Engineering Pedagogy),Tampere University, Finland.
Adjunct Professor in Vocational Education, Tampere University, Finland.
Adjunct Professor in Education, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Adjunct Professor in Education, Tallinn University, Estonia.

Leader of the PGL research group

Email: petri.nokelainen@tuni.fi
ORCID: 0000-0002-8195-7001
ResearcherID: AAG-6073-2021

Visiting address:
Faculty of Education and Culture
Room 354
Åkerlundinkatu 5
33014 Tampere University, Finland

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BIO

PUBLICATIONS

RESEARCH AREAS

My research sits at the intersection of education, work, and professional development. Over more than two decades I have published around 150 peer-reviewed works on how people learn and grow - from vocational education, workplace learning, and the development of professional excellence to higher and engineering education and, more recently, university teachers' emotions and well-being. A common thread runs through understanding learning as something shaped by motivation, emotion, and the conditions that surround it.

Methodologically I favour quantitative and person-centred approaches, including Bayesian modelling, and I combine survey data with experience-sampling and physiological measures to capture learning and teaching as they unfold in real time.

PHD SUPERVISION / POST DOC COLLABORATION

PhD candidate: Please send me an email, if you find the research areas listed above interesting. For more details about our doctoral program, see Doctoral programme for education and society website.
Post doc researcher: Please send me an email if you are interested in the research conducted in the PGL group. I am especially interested in post doc's who would like to join our team of "happy R coders" :-).