Johanna Kiili
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johanna Kiili |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Kiili |
| SIGNATURE | KIILI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0913-6794 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Shame and family work
This article examines how Finnish young people experience shame and embarrassment as clients of child welfare family work. Drawing on qualitative data from online workshops with 28 participants aged 13–29, co-produced with academic researchers and co-researchers with lived experience, the article explores how these emotions arise within home-based support services. The findings show that shame and embarrassment often stem from coercive or unclear…
On your Marx, Escobar, Bourdieu
This article develops theoretical understanding of children’s participation in national-level public decision-making, strengthening insight into how to pursue influence. Using aspects of the work of Bourdieu, Marxist theories and Escobar’s writing on Epistemologies of the South, we analyse examples of participatory processes in four European countries, developed from interviews with young people and adults. Bourdieu focuses attention on the power…
Carrying the mother's load
Purpose Economic security is a social phenomenon that is fundamental in understanding the well-being of individuals and families with children. The aims of this study are to analyse and discuss the multidimensionality of economic security and how Finnish mothers perceive it. Design/methodology/approach We use data from 21 interviews with mothers in Finland in 2024. The data are analysed using theory-informed qualitative content analysis. Findings…
Diversities in transitions
The study discusses children's diverse resources and positions during their transition from early childhood education and care (ECEC) to pre-primary education. The ethnographic data were collected in two pre-primary contexts in Finland: early childhood education centres and schools at the beginning of the pre-primary year. Theory-informed thematic analysis produced categories and distinctions of resources, which had different social meanings depe…
Collaborating with children
This article analyses intergenerational research encounters when collaborating with children. It contemplates the possibilities of applying participatory research methods in situations where the research agenda and main research methods have been decided before contacting the research subjects, as these must be explained in the ethical statement request. The findings in the article suggest that participatory research with children has three impor…
Expertise-by-Experience in Child and Family Services
This study analyses child and family service professionals’ perceptions of expertise-by-experience. Group and individual interviews with professionals were analysed. The analysis yielded three main dimensions of experiential knowledge: supportive peer knowledge; contested knowledge, in which education and talking among peers in small groups helps experts-by-experience to locate the limits of their knowledge before publicly disclosing their inner …
Professionals’ views on children’s service user involvement
Purpose Children are gradually attaining recognition as service users and their involvement in service development has been advanced in recent years. This study draws on empirical research in social and health-care services designed for children and families. The purpose of this paper is to analyse how professionals understand children’s involvement as experts by experience. The focus is on professionals’ views and intergenerational relations. De…
Child-researcher relationships in child protection research. An integrative review
In research with children, particularly those in contact with social and health services, researchers face ethical challenges and have stringent ethical obligations. One obligation regards the need for researchers to adopt a reflexive approach to considering how children’s perspectives and experiences are represented. In this paper, the nature of child-researcher relationships and researchers’ positions are examined to further understanding of ho…
Multidisciplinary peer-mentoring groups facilitating change
This article discusses the potential of multidisciplinary peer-mentoring groups to facilitate individual and institutional change. To do this, we view peer mentoring as a form of critical education praxis (Mahon et al. 2019), the purpose of which is to create a space for reflexive thinking and asking critical questions. The data were collected by interviewing all thirteen participants – doctoral students and more established scholars – of a multi…
Participation as a methodological and ethical issue in child protection research
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how children have been involved in research activities in recent international child protection research and what kinds of ethical and methodological decisions are made by researchers regarding children’s participation. Design/methodology/approach In the paper, the complexity of children’s participation in research activities is analysed through an integrative literature review. Findings Children’s …
Invited to labour or participate
This paper applies aspects of Bourdieu’s conceptual toolkit related to capital, and analyses inter- and intra-generational relations of influence. Applying Bourdieu’s concepts to examples of case studies from a children’s parliament in Finland, and with reference to an adult resident forum, moments of continuity and disruption in the relatively stable patterns of distinction between children and adults emerge. Children in school councils (at time…
Children's Public Participation, Middle‐Class Families and Emotions
The article examines the activities of a municipal children's parliament (the TCP ) in a middle‐sized Finnish town. The article focuses on members of the TCP board and their parents and the emphasis is on parents' views as very little research exists on family background in relation to children's public participation. All the participating families were middle‐class, both as self‐defined and according to their socioeconomic background. The parent…
A lattice of participation
The article introduces four case studies from Wales, France and Finland and explores the situated, intergenerational and dynamic nature of collective participation in child welfare settings. Collective participation is conceived of as a process of engagement in which children and young people have some influence over the initiation or direction of a project; and as seeking a product, or outcome. The case studies represent a range of forms of coll…
It’s almost like official” - Children’s participation as a relational and spatial question
In recent years, more attention has been paid to the opportunities that children and young people have for participation in their communities. The present article explores children’s public participation in the Finnish town of Tampere. Tampere was the first town in Finland that had a municipal Children’s Parliament. The organisation of the Parliament is based on electoral and representative democratic principles. The key event in the organisation…
A lattice of participation
The article introduces four case studies from Wales, France and Finland and explores the situated, intergenerational and dynamic nature of collective participation in child welfare settings. Collective participation is conceived of as a process of engagement in which children and young people have some influence over the initiation or direction of a project; and as seeking a product, or outcome. The case studies represent a range of forms of coll…
Invited to labour or participate
This paper applies aspects of Bourdieu’s conceptual toolkit related to capital, and analyses inter- and intra-generational relations of influence. Applying Bourdieu’s concepts to examples of case studies from a children’s parliament in Finland, and with reference to an adult resident forum, moments of continuity and disruption in the relatively stable patterns of distinction between children and adults emerge. Children in school councils (at time…
Professionals’ views on children’s service user involvement
Purpose Children are gradually attaining recognition as service users and their involvement in service development has been advanced in recent years. This study draws on empirical research in social and health-care services designed for children and families. The purpose of this paper is to analyse how professionals understand children’s involvement as experts by experience. The focus is on professionals’ views and intergenerational relations. De…
Child-researcher relationships in child protection research. An integrative review
In research with children, particularly those in contact with social and health services, researchers face ethical challenges and have stringent ethical obligations. One obligation regards the need for researchers to adopt a reflexive approach to considering how children’s perspectives and experiences are represented. In this paper, the nature of child-researcher relationships and researchers’ positions are examined to further understanding of ho…
Participation as a methodological and ethical issue in child protection research
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how children have been involved in research activities in recent international child protection research and what kinds of ethical and methodological decisions are made by researchers regarding children’s participation. Design/methodology/approach In the paper, the complexity of children’s participation in research activities is analysed through an integrative literature review. Findings Children’s …
It’s almost like official” - Children’s participation as a relational and spatial question
In recent years, more attention has been paid to the opportunities that children and young people have for participation in their communities. The present article explores children’s public participation in the Finnish town of Tampere. Tampere was the first town in Finland that had a municipal Children’s Parliament. The organisation of the Parliament is based on electoral and representative democratic principles. The key event in the organisation…
It’s almost like official” - Children’s participation as a relational and spatial question
In recent years, more attention has been paid to the opportunities that children and young people have for participation in their communities. The present article explores children’s public participation in the Finnish town of Tampere. Tampere was the first town in Finland that had a municipal Children’s Parliament. The organisation of the Parliament is based on electoral and representative democratic principles. The key event in the organisation…
A lattice of participation
The article introduces four case studies from Wales, France and Finland and explores the situated, intergenerational and dynamic nature of collective participation in child welfare settings. Collective participation is conceived of as a process of engagement in which children and young people have some influence over the initiation or direction of a project; and as seeking a product, or outcome. The case studies represent a range of forms of coll…
Children's Public Participation, Middle‐Class Families and Emotions
The article examines the activities of a municipal children's parliament (the TCP ) in a middle‐sized Finnish town. The article focuses on members of the TCP board and their parents and the emphasis is on parents' views as very little research exists on family background in relation to children's public participation. All the participating families were middle‐class, both as self‐defined and according to their socioeconomic background. The parent…
Invited to labour or participate
This paper applies aspects of Bourdieu’s conceptual toolkit related to capital, and analyses inter- and intra-generational relations of influence. Applying Bourdieu’s concepts to examples of case studies from a children’s parliament in Finland, and with reference to an adult resident forum, moments of continuity and disruption in the relatively stable patterns of distinction between children and adults emerge. Children in school councils (at time…
Participation as a methodological and ethical issue in child protection research
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how children have been involved in research activities in recent international child protection research and what kinds of ethical and methodological decisions are made by researchers regarding children’s participation. Design/methodology/approach In the paper, the complexity of children’s participation in research activities is analysed through an integrative literature review. Findings Children’s …
Multidisciplinary peer-mentoring groups facilitating change
This article discusses the potential of multidisciplinary peer-mentoring groups to facilitate individual and institutional change. To do this, we view peer mentoring as a form of critical education praxis (Mahon et al. 2019), the purpose of which is to create a space for reflexive thinking and asking critical questions. The data were collected by interviewing all thirteen participants – doctoral students and more established scholars – of a multi…
Professionals’ views on children’s service user involvement
Purpose Children are gradually attaining recognition as service users and their involvement in service development has been advanced in recent years. This study draws on empirical research in social and health-care services designed for children and families. The purpose of this paper is to analyse how professionals understand children’s involvement as experts by experience. The focus is on professionals’ views and intergenerational relations. De…
Child-researcher relationships in child protection research. An integrative review
In research with children, particularly those in contact with social and health services, researchers face ethical challenges and have stringent ethical obligations. One obligation regards the need for researchers to adopt a reflexive approach to considering how children’s perspectives and experiences are represented. In this paper, the nature of child-researcher relationships and researchers’ positions are examined to further understanding of ho…
Expertise-by-Experience in Child and Family Services
This study analyses child and family service professionals’ perceptions of expertise-by-experience. Group and individual interviews with professionals were analysed. The analysis yielded three main dimensions of experiential knowledge: supportive peer knowledge; contested knowledge, in which education and talking among peers in small groups helps experts-by-experience to locate the limits of their knowledge before publicly disclosing their inner …
Collaborating with children
This article analyses intergenerational research encounters when collaborating with children. It contemplates the possibilities of applying participatory research methods in situations where the research agenda and main research methods have been decided before contacting the research subjects, as these must be explained in the ethical statement request. The findings in the article suggest that participatory research with children has three impor…
Diversities in transitions
The study discusses children's diverse resources and positions during their transition from early childhood education and care (ECEC) to pre-primary education. The ethnographic data were collected in two pre-primary contexts in Finland: early childhood education centres and schools at the beginning of the pre-primary year. Theory-informed thematic analysis produced categories and distinctions of resources, which had different social meanings depe…
Shame and family work
This article examines how Finnish young people experience shame and embarrassment as clients of child welfare family work. Drawing on qualitative data from online workshops with 28 participants aged 13–29, co-produced with academic researchers and co-researchers with lived experience, the article explores how these emotions arise within home-based support services. The findings show that shame and embarrassment often stem from coercive or unclear…
On your Marx, Escobar, Bourdieu
This article develops theoretical understanding of children’s participation in national-level public decision-making, strengthening insight into how to pursue influence. Using aspects of the work of Bourdieu, Marxist theories and Escobar’s writing on Epistemologies of the South, we analyse examples of participatory processes in four European countries, developed from interviews with young people and adults. Bourdieu focuses attention on the power…
Carrying the mother's load
Purpose Economic security is a social phenomenon that is fundamental in understanding the well-being of individuals and families with children. The aims of this study are to analyse and discuss the multidimensionality of economic security and how Finnish mothers perceive it. Design/methodology/approach We use data from 21 interviews with mothers in Finland in 2024. The data are analysed using theory-informed qualitative content analysis. Findings…
Sociology (11 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social science (6 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (3 works) · Engineering (3 works)