Dr Kimmo Svinhufvud is a Finnish-language teacher working in the University’s Language Centre. Svinhufvud offers his students support in their academic writing both through taught courses and net-based material. In teaching the main official languages of the country, he works alongside two Finnish-speaking and one Swedish-speaking colleague. Svinhufvud began writing guides to preparing a master’s dissertation and blogging on the subject back in the early 2000s, when he was a lecturer in the Finnish Department.

I can vividly recall when I began my studies at the Faculty of Arts. There were over 700 new students attending some kind of an orientation session in the Great Hall of the Main Building. It was a unique and thrilling experience to sit there.

For Kimmo Svinhufvud, research serves as an important counterweight to teaching. His doctoral thesis topic was “Thesis writing as an interactive activity – A Conversation Analysis Study on the Interaction between Master’s Thesis Seminars and Master’s Thesis Advisor Meetings”. In the thesis, Svinhufvud studied the structure of interactive situations related to thesis writing – such as advisor meetings and seminar work – as well as ways of pedagogically developing the working methods used.

• “Kymmenen kysymystä kielestä – Kimmo Svinhufvud”, (’Ten questions about language – Kimmo Svinhuvud’), Institute for the Languages of Finland web bulletin, 26 November, 2014. Accessed 28 January 2015

• ”Graduahdistuksen helpottaja Kimmo Svinhufvud on tuore Vuoden tieteentekijä”, (’Help with dissertation writing is at hand with Kimmo Svinhuvud…