Virpi Uotinen

Virpi Uotinen

University Teacher
Unit
Open University
Room number
RUU C425
Mobile
+358405767782
Postal address
Alvar Aallon katu 9
Fields of science
515 Psychology
3141 Health care science

Biography

As a university teacher of psychology and psychogerontology, I am involved in the teaching, planning and development of these subjects. I teach psychological research methods in the basic studies of psychology and the psychology of ageing, i.e. geropsychology, as well as work and organisational psychology in the subject studies. I am responsible of the recognition of prior learning in psychology. In gerontology, I teach psychogerontology in both basic and subject studies. Psychology of ageing was also the subject of my doctoral research that focused on subjective age identification.

Other activities: 

  • Contact person of the Erasmus funded Staff Visit Weeks at the Jyväskylä Open University.

Researcher in the following international collaboration projects: 

  • Artificial Intelligence anD Large Language Models In educaTion (2023-PCOOP-ENGO Partnerships for Cooperation in the fields of education and training and youth - European NGO) that will be active in years 2024-2026.
  • ONE Meeting - project that was active in years 2020-2022. The project aimed to increase environmental knowledge, digital communication, and collaboration competences of higher education leaders and staff that participated in international collaboration projects. 
  • Erasmus+ KA3 project on European Short Learning Programmes (SLPs) for continuous professional development and lifelong learning was active in years 2018-2020. Currently I am a member of EADTU EMPOWER Continuing Education and Short Learning Programmes expert pool. 

Publications

Publication
2022
Available through Open Access
2022 Envisioning Report for Empowering Universities. European Association of Distance Teaching Universities.
Cendon, Eva
Kananen, Päivi
Uotinen, Virpi
López-Forés, Laura
Publication
2021
Available through Open Access
Innovating Higher Education Conference. European Association of Distance Teaching Universities.
Bastos, Glória
Cendon, Eva
Firat, Mehmet
Günes, Aysun
Hiltunen, Leena
Juutinen, Sanna
Kananen, Päivi
Uotinen, Virpi
Zarebski, Magda
Publication
2020
Available through Open Access
European Association of Distance Teaching Universities.
Maina, Marcelo Fabián
Guàrdia, Lourdes
Albert, Sandrine
Antonaci, Alessandra
Uotinen, Virpi
Altınpulluk, Hakan
Karolina, Grodeka
Chrząszcz, Agnieszka
Dunn, Clare