Work Experience

3 Feb. 2025 – 30 Jun. 2026, Project Coordinator, Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä.

• Coordination of an international project – ACACIA project: LGBTQI+ and Street-level Bureaucrats: Assessing Motives, Violence and Possibilities for Collective Advocacy in East Africa (PI: Prof. Laura Stark).
• Creating project logo, website and social media sites. Coordinating project’s social media channels and content dissemination; creating visuals for the content.
• Taking care of the administrative communication with project partners and international visitors.

Mar.-Aug. 2024 / Sept.-Dec. 2023 / Sept.-Dec. 2022, Part-time Teacher, hourly-based, Tampere University, Finland.

1 Aug. 2021 – 31 Dec. 2022 (17 months), Postdoctoral Researcher in MultiLEAP (Multiliteracies for social participation and learning across the life span) profiling area of the University of Jyväskylä, Department of Language and Communication Studies.

• Research focus: visual literacy education and visual pedagogies in higher education;
• Teaching: visual literacy (two guest lectures), visual communication for working life (international course).
• Organizing the 54th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association (10-12 Aug. 2022).
• Editing a book: Visual Pedagogies in Higher Education: Between Theory and Practice (2022, Brill).

1 Jan. 2019 – 31 Mar. 2021 (27 months), Postdoctoral Researcher, Academy of Finland project: ‘What’s in the App?’ Digitally mediated communication within contemporary multilingual families across time and space (PI: Prof. Åsa Palviainen), Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä.

• Individual project on digitally mediated communication in transnational families: conducting fieldwork in five Polish-speaking families; (visual) elicitation interviews with adults and children; inventing a prompt of interactive collage to map family constellations and in-app communication.
• Cross-disciplinary research, combining: migration studies, transnational family research, digital media studies, digital communication, visual culture studies (e.g., article on WhatsApp iconology);
• Publishing 4 scientific articles; co-editing a special issue: Connecting Polish families in Europe: Changing dynamics in language and communication practices.

March 2011 – Sept. 2023, Part-time Teacher, hourly based teaching of undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

• Visual Research Methods and Methodologies (20h, doctoral-level, Sept. 2023);
• Visual Communication as a Way to Improve Working Life Skills (24h/5 days, 2021-2023, undergrad.);
• Guest lectures: Visual Literacy (2-4h lectures for Master-level students, 2021-2022).
• Successful Online Presentations (3h workshop, 2021, doctoral-level);
• Introduction to Visual Research Methods (24h, 2016-2019, Master-level);
• Press Photography: Theory, Practice and Interpretation (24h/5 days, 2016-2018, undergrad.);
• Visual Literacy: Press Photography as a Medium (18h, 2012, undergrad.);
• Press Photography as a Medium for Intercultural Communication (12h, 2011, Master-level);
• Workshop: Visual Methods in Analysing Imagery.
• Guest lecture: The Power of Visual Communication: Press Photography.
• Guest lecture: Analysis and Criticism of Journalism: Press Photography Analysis.

Courses’ descriptions: here

1 Jan.-31 Dec. 2018 (12 months), Postdoctoral Researcher, grant-based, Finnish Institute for Educational Research (Jan.-Jun.) and Department of Language and Communication Studies (Jul.-Dec.), University of Jyväskylä.

• Working on research project: Students’ Visual Literacy Skills across Disciplines in Finnish Higher Education; funding: A. Kordelin Foundation (12.000 €), E.G. Ehrnrooth Foundation (15.500 €).
• Co-editing double special issue of the Journal of Visual Literacy — “Visual literacy practices in higher education: What, why and how?”.
• Publishing the most quoted article: “What does it mean to be visually literate? Examination of visual literacy definitions in a context of higher education”.

1 Sept. 2010 – 29 Dec. 2016, Doctoral Researcher, Department of Communication, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

• Postgraduate research in journalism (visual communication, visual research methods, visual literacy, press photography).

Other work experience

June – July 2010, Photography Instructor and Children Carer at the holidays’ camp for children, organized by “KOMPAS”, an office for active leisure pursuits, Poland. Main responsibilities: teaching children digital photography through workshops, discussions and games.

1 July – 30 September 2008, Marketing Executive, AIESEC Management Traineeship in Bangladesh at “PURPLE”, an English magazine published in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Main responsibilities: working with a team of reporters and photographers to develop exciting stories; designing promotional materials and magazine’s website layout; cooperating with web designers; selling advertising space in the magazine; building long-term marketing relations with corporate sector and top advertising agencies of Bangladesh.