As vice-rector Anna Mauranen has a broad remit – international relations, engagement with society, personnel policy, academic quality assurance and library and premises issues. And of course she stands in for the rector.

Anna Mauranen served as Dean of the University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Arts between 2010 and 2014 and before that between 2007 and 2009 as Vice-dean. “I have really great memories of those years. And for sure there were challenges and plenty of turbulence," says Mauranen.

Professor of English, Anna Mauranen, is one of the University’s most internationally cited researchers.

Over the last three decades Mauranen has made a strong showing among the elite of English-language researchers: she began work on her doctoral thesis at the age of forty, gaining her doctorate after three years…

One of Anna Mauranen’s most important memories of her years as a student came during a basic course in general linguistics. “I realised that language can be a theory and that grammar isn’t just a dull pile of rules but a model of a language.”

“Aksenttia on turha hävetä” (‘There’s no need to be ashamed of your accent’) University of Helsinki web bulletin. In Finnish. Accessed March 23, 2015.

”Miljoona sanaa englantia” (’A million words of English’) Yliopisto-lehti 5/2009. In Finnish. Accessed March 23, 2015.

“In the midst of a…