Pauliina Vuorinen
Thesis title: Recreational Reading Behaviour in Everyday Life
PhD in Informatics: ILCC - Language processing, speech technology, information retrieval and cognition
Year of study: 3
Contact details
- Email: p.t.e.vuorinen@sms.ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Background
I am a third-year PhD Student working on an interdisciplinary project between psychology and informatics.
Qualifications
MRes in Psychology, with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)
BSc in Psychology, First-class honours (University of Aberdeen)
Alan Berkeley Milne Prize in Psychology for the Best Thesis of 2018 in University of Aberdeen
Undergraduate teaching
Tutor for Psychology 2A and Psychology 2B in 2020-2021
Skills Centre writing tutor from 2020 onwards
Tutor for Informatics: Cognitive Science course in spring 2020
Postgraduate teaching
Teaching assistant to co-supervise an MSc student
Writing Tutor for MSc Informatics students in 2021
Research summary
My PhD research project is an interdisciplinary study of adults’ reading behaviour which incorporates both informatics and psychology. I am passionate about understanding both recreational and academic e-reading habits in the context of everyday life, and my research uses innovative, observational methodologies.