Over the years my administrative duties have led to my involvement in research affairs, and I have served on the university Research Council, the infrastructure committee, library committee and the research committee of the Faculty of Arts. Participating in establishing such forms of national collaboration as the Langnet Doctoral Programme and the Finnish Society for the Study of English (FINSSE) has been particularly inspiring. One of the most recent undertakings is the Publication Forum project, for which I am the chairperson of the languages panel.

My responsibilities in international organisations are also largely research related. I was involved in founding the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), and I served two terms as the Vice-President of research. The central aim of the society is to initiate active dialogue between researchers of English from different fields. My terms on the executive board of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) were less adventurous, as the organisation championing corpus-based English research had by then been well established.

My honorary positions in Finland have included membership of the board of the Modern Language Society and responsibility, spanning ten years, for its English language publications. My longest lasting work in an organisation, however, already began when I was a student. I was recruited by the Finnish-British Society in Helsinki, first as a secretary for the Cambridge English examinations, then, after graduating , as a teacher, and finally as a member of the board and vice-chairperson for many years. Another fine vantage point to have.