Jenni Lahtinen

I am a PhD student at the University of Helsinki in doctoral program of Social Sciences. My dissertation deals with vocational education and sustainable wellbeing. I have a master’s degree focused in Social and Public Policy from University of Helsinki. I've done research in the fields of gender and culture sensitive career guidance, young people's educational choices, occupational gender segregation, child protection and young people's service experiences.

I am Currently working in a project that focuses particularly on producing easily approached and practical educational materials for gender and culture sensitive career guidance. The aim is to raise awareness, and to transform the awareness about the gender and culture bias in career guidance into good practices to counteract it.