Päivikki Lahtinen

Organizational learning, change and develoment via interprofessional working and formative interventions. Her keen interest of research is on socio-cultural- and practice-based theories, qualitative research methods and participatory intervention techniques drawing from Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and the Change Laboratory method. 

Research project experience, Horizon 2020 and Academy of Finland: 

• "Improving collaborative working between correctional and mental health services" (2017 - )
  • EU -project, Horizon 2020 MSCA-RISE-2016
• "Pilot of a Change Laboratory in a Norwegian Criminal Justice System" (2017-2018)
• "Concept Formation and Volition is Collaborative Work" (2011-2015)
• "Implementation Conditions of Integration Innovations in Health Care: Organizational Volition and the Voice of the Client" (2010-2012)

I have worked as a kindergarten teacher and daycare manager several years in Finland, Sweden and Estonia. 

• FORTHEM – Fostering Outreach within European Regions, Transnational Higher Education and Mobility (2022–2026). Funding: Erasmus+ European Universities. Mission Board Manager for FORTHEM Labs and Co-Creation Mission. 
• Horizon2020, MSCA-RISE project nr: 734536, (COLAB): "Improving collaborative working between correctional and mental health services" (2017 - 2022)
• Norwegian Correctional Services: "Pilot of a Change Laboratory in a Norwegian Criminal Justice System" (2017-2018)
• Academy of Finland: "Concept Formation and Volition in Collaborative Work" (2011-2015)
• Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation (TEKES): "Implementation Conditions of Integration Innovations in Health Care: Organizational Volition and the Voice of the Client" (2010-2012)

Lahtinen, P & Flåten, B. T. (2022). Enhancing creativity in education. In P. Gebbing, X. Yang & C. Lattemann (Eds.) Fostering Creativity in Digital Gourp Work. A handbook for individuals, educators, and professionals. Imprint, Jacobs University gGmbH, Germany. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.20853.24804/1

Lahtinen, P., Kajamaa, A., Seppänen, L., Johnsen, B. & Esko, T. (2021). Interorganizational collaboration in a Norwegian prison - challenges and opportunities arising from interagency meetings. In S. Hean, B. Johnsen, A. Kajamaa & L. Kloetzer (Eds). Improving Interagency Collaboration, Innovation and Organisational Learning in Criminal Justice Systems. Palgrave Macmillan.

Seppänen, L., Ylisassi, H., Heikkilä, H., Kajamaa, A. & Lahtinen, P. (2021). Facilitation of Developmental Tasks in Prisons: Applying the Method of Human-Centered Co-evaluation. In S. Hean, B. Johnsen, A. Kajamaa & L. Kloetzer (Eds). Improving Collaboration, Innovation and Organisational learning in Criminal Justice Systems. Palgrave Macmillan.

Hean, S., Bruun, S., Aakjær, M., Kloetzer, L., Seppänen, L., Lahtinen, P., Kajamaa, A., & Murphy, T. (2021). A COLAB model of workplace transformation in the Criminal Justice Context.  In S. Hean, B. Johnsen, A. Kajamaa & L. Kloetzer (Eds). Improving Collaboration, Innovation and Organisational learning in Criminal Justice Systems Systems. Palgrave Macmillan.

Hean, S., Lahtinen, P., Dugdale, W., Larsen, B. & Kajamaa, A. (2020).The Change Laboratory as a tool for collaboration and social innovation. In: Willumsen, E. & Ødegård, A (eds.). Samskaping - sosial innovasjon for helse og velferd. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.

Hean, S., Aakjær, M, Kloetzer, L., Seppänen, L., Kajamaa, A., Lahtinen, P. & Murphy, T. (2020) Combining Resources: A Participatory Intervention promoting Organisational Learning, Social innovation and Interorganisational Collabroations in Criminal Justice. UiS Scholarly Publishing Services, Stavanger, Norway. 

Lahtinen, P., Esko, T., Kajamaa, A., Johnsen, B., Seppänen, L & Hean, S. (2018). Addressing reoffending through addressing offender mentla health: Exploring the viability of the Change Laboratoy method as means of promoting social innovation in the delivery integrated mental heatth care offenders in prison services. Report. Stavanger: University of Stavanger. 

Kajamaa, A. & Lahtinen, P. (2016). Carnivalization as a new mode of collaboration. Journal of Workplace Learning 28, 4, pp.188-205.

Engeström, Y., Kajamaa, A., Lahtinen, P. & Sannino, A. (2015). Toward a grammar of collaboration. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 22, 2, pp. 92-111.

Podcast: "Better Together" - UiS (2022). People in contact with criminal justice are vulnerable and need help to remain crime-free.  In this series, we hear about prisoner vulnerabilities and give them a voice in the development of services.  We explore the importance of collaboration, innovation, and organisational learning within the criminal justice field and the multiple stakeholders involved.