University of Tampere (UTA)

Professor of Policing and Security Management, at the University of Tampere. In addition, Adjunct Professor at Defence University, Helsinki. Main field: higher police education.
Multidisciplinary social scientific (political science, international relations, administrative science, security management, criminology) research on security and policing. Research group on security studies (political science, IR, administrative science) focuses for instance on security politics, policy-making and strategies (global, EU, national, local), security networks and public-private-people partnerships. In addition, active participation in governmental development working groups in Finland, EU-projects and scientific community, for instance Chair of permanent Working Group Crime, Science and Politics of the European Society of Criminology.