Kristiina Kumpulainen is a Professor of Education at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Helsinki. She is the founding member and Scientific Director of the Playful Learning Center and Co-director of the Learning, Culture and Interventions research group. She leads the Nordic Research Network on Digitalising Childhoods (DigiChild) funded by the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS). She is the co-editor of Elsevier’s journal Learning, Culture and Interaction and a Fellow of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. Her scholarship demonstrates a broad mastery of current and historical scholarship in research on children’s digital participation, literacies, learning and education. Many of her research projects have developed novel methodologies for analyzing social and multimodal interaction and literacy practices, and researching with children, increasing knowledge of collaborative research and democratic forms of inquiry. She has an outstanding record of publications and externally funded research projects from highly competitive and distinguished programs. She has led one of the Finnish government’s key projects on young children’s multiliteracies funded by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture (years 2016-2020). She currently leads an EU HORIZON 2020 research project “Widening and diversifying citizen engagement in science (ALLINTERACT) and a research project on “Children’s ecological imagination and its pedagogical enhancement at the intersection of cultural stories and augmented reality technologies” funded by KONE foundation. She is a co-PI for the “Digital mediation of children’s interactions with the more-than-human world: Perezhivaniya and literate practices” research project funded by the Australian Research Council (in collaboration with professor Peter Renshaw and Dr. Ron Tooth, University of Queensland).
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