Järviluoma-Mäkelä, Helmi
Tehtävä
Professori, Emerita
Yksikkö
Humanistinen osasto
Sähköposti
helmi.jarviluoma@uef.fi
Toiminnan kuvaus
BIO
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8567-5001
Helmi Järviluoma (born 1960) is a Finnish sound, music, and cultural scholar and writer. She is a Professor Emerita of Cultural Studies at the University of Eastern Finland. As sensory and soundscape ethnographer, Järviluoma has developed the mobile method of sensobiographic walking. Her research and art spans the fields of sensory remembering, qualitative methodology (especially regarding gender), environmental cultural studies, sound art and fiction writing. In 2016, she received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council ERC, in order to study Sensory Transformations and Transgenerational Environmental Relationships, 1950–2020 SENSOTRA in the three European cities of Ljubljana, Turku and Brighton. Among her 180 publications, Gender and Qualitative Methods (2003/2010) continues to draw attention. She has written and directed altogether six radio features for Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE.. The Finnish Union of University Professors selected Helmi Järviluoma as professor of the year 2019] in Finland, and 2018 Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, invited her as a member.