Prizes and special achievements

Dyos Prize for the best article submitted to Urban History (Cambridge University Press) in 2008. Article Industrial urbanization, working-class lads and slang toponyms in early twentieth-century Helsinki by Heikki Paunonen, Jani Vuolteenaho & Terhi Ainiala.
‘Best urban essay’ 2005: ’Urbaanin paikannimistön haasteita – kielitieteen ja maantieteen tieteenalatraditioista arkiseen käyttönimistöön Helsingin metropolialueella’.(’The challenges of urban toponymy–from linguistic and geographical academic traditions to everyday toponymy in the Helsinki metropolitan area’) Jani Vuolteenaho & Terhi Ainiala, Alue ja ympäristö 34, 2005. (‘Area and environment’ journal)
Teachers’ Academy, member: awarded 2015
Society for the Study of Finnish, Doctoral thesis award 1998

By Written by Terhi Ainiala and Riitta-Ilona Hurmerinta (ed). Translated by John Calton.

Terhi Ainiala

Terhi Tuulikki Ainiala
Born July 4, 1967

Master of Arts 1991 and Doctor of Philosophy 1997 (Finnish Language), University of Helsinki.

Finnish language University Lecturer 2012- , University of Helsinki

Researcher, Special Investigator, Head of Research Division, Institute for the Languages of Finland, 1991-2011; Research Assistant, Academy of Finland 1995-97 (on secondment from Institute).
Docent in Finnish Language, 2003-, University of Helsinki

Publications, research projects and other academic activities
Research interests: onomastics, specialising in socio-onomastics and urban place names; slang

Written by Terhi Ainiala and Riitta-Ilona Hurmerinta (ed.)
Translated by John Calton