Leena Mikkola
Biographic Data
| ID | 6715763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leena Mikkola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leena |
| FAMILY NAME | Mikkola |
| SIGNATURE | MIKKOLA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0097-975X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Questioning as a practice of constructing expertise and communication competence in interprofessional teamwork
This study explores how questioning functions as a communicative practice in managing everyday problems and negotiating expertise and communication competence in an interprofessional healthcare team. High-quality collaboration in such teams is essential, but hierarchies and time pressures may hinder joint development of competence. Drawing on Grounded Practical Theory and employing Action-Implicative Discourse Analysis, we analyze audio-recorded …
Identity construction through talk of difference and similarity
Identity construction is a continuous process that permeates all social life. Drawing from intercultural communication scholarship and the Bakhtinian perspective on the construction of the self, we suggest that identity is constructed in talk through the interplay of socially constructed, ideologically imbued similarities and differences and propose the blocking and threading analysis (BTA) method to study this process. Blocking refers to constru…
From leader to peer – specializing physicians’ understanding of their multiple positions in interprofessional health care teams
The wide range of physician positions reveals how diversely and dynamically SPs adapt leadership as part of their professional identity and reframes future studies to explore how SPs construct the dimensions of their professional identity rather than whether they do so
Discursive Strategies to Negotiate Power Relations in Disability Services Client Juries
Collaboration with clients is an efficient way to develop social services. To strengthen the possibilities for clients to influence services, client juries are established. However, collaboration in the juries is perceived as difficult because of the power imbalance inherent in the client-social worker relationship. The aim of this study was to examine how the participants negotiated power relations in client jury meetings. The data consisted of …
Narrative Start-up Identity Construction as Strategic Communication
In this qualitative case study, positioning itself within the social constructionist approach, we aimed to investigate and interpret identity narration and organizational identity in strategic external and internal communication at the health technology startup company Naava Group Oy. By analyzing three different datasets (Twitter, blog posts, and interviews), we examined how organizational identity was emerged and which way it was strategic in s…
Journalism Education as Scientific Education
This study analyses the scientific character of journalism education at two Finnish research universities by investigating students’ engagement with knowledge. The journalism degrees of these universities involve scientific modules but clearly have a more practical profile than most research university degrees in Finland. This study draws on two influential concepts of university education: powerful knowledge emphasising a coherent theoretical kn…
Membership negotiation in the first workplace – Newcomers' experiences
Purpose This qualitative study aims to understand young professional newcomers' experiences of communication processes in membership negotiation in their first workplace after graduation. Design/methodology/approach Instead of a one-time interview, the participants were contacted five to ten times during the three to ten months, beginning when they entered the workplace. The data were analyzed using a constant comparative method. Findings Three c…
Social support in the workplace for physicians in specialization training
When becoming a specialist, learning-through-service plays a significant role. The workplace affords good opportunities for learning, but the service-learning period may also impose stress on phycisians in specialization training. In medical work, social support has proved to be a very important factor in managing stress. Social support may afford advantages also for learning and professional identity building. However, little was known about how…
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Social support in the workplace for physicians in specialization training
When becoming a specialist, learning-through-service plays a significant role. The workplace affords good opportunities for learning, but the service-learning period may also impose stress on phycisians in specialization training. In medical work, social support has proved to be a very important factor in managing stress. Social support may afford advantages also for learning and professional identity building. However, little was known about how…
Membership negotiation in the first workplace – Newcomers' experiences
Purpose This qualitative study aims to understand young professional newcomers' experiences of communication processes in membership negotiation in their first workplace after graduation. Design/methodology/approach Instead of a one-time interview, the participants were contacted five to ten times during the three to ten months, beginning when they entered the workplace. The data were analyzed using a constant comparative method. Findings Three c…
Discursive Strategies to Negotiate Power Relations in Disability Services Client Juries
Collaboration with clients is an efficient way to develop social services. To strengthen the possibilities for clients to influence services, client juries are established. However, collaboration in the juries is perceived as difficult because of the power imbalance inherent in the client-social worker relationship. The aim of this study was to examine how the participants negotiated power relations in client jury meetings. The data consisted of …
Narrative Start-up Identity Construction as Strategic Communication
In this qualitative case study, positioning itself within the social constructionist approach, we aimed to investigate and interpret identity narration and organizational identity in strategic external and internal communication at the health technology startup company Naava Group Oy. By analyzing three different datasets (Twitter, blog posts, and interviews), we examined how organizational identity was emerged and which way it was strategic in s…
Journalism Education as Scientific Education
This study analyses the scientific character of journalism education at two Finnish research universities by investigating students’ engagement with knowledge. The journalism degrees of these universities involve scientific modules but clearly have a more practical profile than most research university degrees in Finland. This study draws on two influential concepts of university education: powerful knowledge emphasising a coherent theoretical kn…
Identity construction through talk of difference and similarity
Identity construction is a continuous process that permeates all social life. Drawing from intercultural communication scholarship and the Bakhtinian perspective on the construction of the self, we suggest that identity is constructed in talk through the interplay of socially constructed, ideologically imbued similarities and differences and propose the blocking and threading analysis (BTA) method to study this process. Blocking refers to constru…
From leader to peer – specializing physicians’ understanding of their multiple positions in interprofessional health care teams
The wide range of physician positions reveals how diversely and dynamically SPs adapt leadership as part of their professional identity and reframes future studies to explore how SPs construct the dimensions of their professional identity rather than whether they do so
Questioning as a practice of constructing expertise and communication competence in interprofessional teamwork
This study explores how questioning functions as a communicative practice in managing everyday problems and negotiating expertise and communication competence in an interprofessional healthcare team. High-quality collaboration in such teams is essential, but hierarchies and time pressures may hinder joint development of competence. Drawing on Grounded Practical Theory and employing Action-Implicative Discourse Analysis, we analyze audio-recorded …
Political science (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Qualitative research (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Identity (music (2 works) · Interprofessional Education and Collaboration (2 works)