I have studied Sociology and Politics in Universities of Tartu, Glasgow and Edinburgh. I am currently working on my own doctoral dissertation on political organisations as gendered workplaces. I am part of the research group on Gender Relations in Organisations, Management and Society. I have previously worked at the same department as a research assistant in EU-projects dealing with gender and organisations and published around these themes.

March 2010 – May 2010   Course coordinator and lecturer for the Gender, Management and Organisations Masters level course at Hanken, Helsinki.

March 2009 Lecturer at University of Helsinki, Department of Political Science,  
Gender and Management course (Sukupuoli ja johtaminen course coordinator Marjut Jyrkinen)

 

March 2008 Lecturer at Svenska handelshögskolan
Basic course in International Political Economy

 

January 2007 Lecturer at Svenska handelshögskolan
Basic course in International Political Economy

April 2007 Lecturer at University of Helsinki, Department of Political Science  Feminist Critiques of the International Political Economy (Course coordinators J.Valenius & J.Kantola)

February 2006 – March 2006 Tutor for a course in Leadership at Svenska handelshögskolan (Leader of the course: Dr. Denise Salin). Teaching (in Swedish) cases in tutorial groups.

October 2006 Lecturer at Svenska handelshögskolan
Management course

September 2005 – March 2006 Tutor for introductory course in Business Strategy at Svenska handelshögskolan (Leader of the course: Dr. Ingmar Björkman). Teaching (in Swedish) cases in tutorial groups for the same course first in the autumn 05 and again in the spring 06.

 

Political Institutions –Parliament, Public Management  and NPM, Gender and Gendered Organisations, Work, different definitions and understanding of work and workplace, Legislative systems/ Legislation

Niemi, Hertta (2010) Managing in the "Golden Cage" An Ethnographic Study of Work, Management and Gender in Parliamentary Administration http://hdl.handle.net/10227/724

Niemi, Hertta (2008) Eduskunnan kanslian tasa-arvoselvityksen 2007 laskuperusteet. (Additional report on the numerical figures in the Equality evalution)

Niemi, Hertta (2008) Eduskunnan kansliassa vuonna 2007 tehdyt kaksi selvitystä, lausunto Työelämä- ja Tasa-arvovaliokunnalle 3.3.2008. (An expert statement based on the two evaluation for the parliamentary committee on Employment and Equality)

 

Niemi, Hertta (2007) Eduskunnan kanslian tasa-arvoselvitys 2007. (Equality evaluation for the administrative offices of the Finnish Parliament)

 

Niemi, Hertta (2007) Eduskunnan kanslian henkilöstöstrategian 2002-2006 vaikuttavuuden arviointi. (Evaluation of the personnel strategy during 2002-2006 in the administrative offices of the Finnish Parliament)

 

Hearn and Niemi (2007), The State in the International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, Edited by Michael Flood,  Judith Kegan, Bob Pease and Keith Pringle

 

Kansainvälinen poliittinen talous (International Political Economy) a chapter together with Marjut Jyrkinen in Johanna Kantola ja Johanna Valenius (toim).Sukupuoli maailmanpolitiikassa: 10 käsitettä feministiseen kansainvälisten suhteiden tutkimukseen(2007) (in english Gender in the World Politics: 10 concepts for the feminist international relations study)

 

Men and Masculinities in Europe, with K. Pringle. J. Hearn et al., Whiting & Birch, London, (2006), 280 pp.


European Perspectives on Men and Masculinities: National and Transnational Approaches, with J. Hearn and K. Pringle and members of Critical Research on Men in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, London, (2006), 240 pp.

 

Hearn Jeff and Niemi Hertta (2006) ‘The State of “Men’s Movements” in Finland: Gender-conscious Organising in Men’s Politics’, Nordic Journal of Masculinity Studies.

 

Hearn Jeff and Niemi Hertta ‘Men’s movements and feminism in Finland: Organisations, networks and social relations’, in A. Moring (ed.) Politics of Gender, Otava,Helsinki, 2006 (in English, Swedish and Finnish).

 

Niemi Hertta (2005) ‘Women working within the public sector’, NASTA website (teaching material) http://students.oamk.fi/~k2masa01/Oppari_www-sivut/Index.htm

 

‘Finland: gender dominance, gender equality and gender-neutrality’ with E. Lattu, T. Tallberg and H. Niemi, in Critical Research on Men in Europe Men and Masculinities in Europe, Whiting & Birch, London, 2005.

 

Co-edited with Päivi Eriksson, Jeff Hearn, Marjut Jyrkinen, Susan Meriläinen, Johanna Moisander, Hertta Niemi, Kristina Rolin, Sinikka Vanhala, Elina Henttonen, Minna Hiillos, Saija Katila, Teemu Tallberg ‘Gender and Organisations in Flux?’, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration Research Reports, Helsinki, 2004.