Biography
Dr Juuso Nieminen (he/him) is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, and a Banting Fellow at Ontario Tech University, Canada. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at Deakin University, Australia and an Adjunct Professor (Docent) at the University of Eastern Finland. His research concerns the social, cultural and political dimensions of educational assessment. Dr Nieminen has particularly focused on understanding the social effects of assessment on students’ inclusion, belonging and identities. His disciplinary background is in mathematics and technology education.
Dr Nieminen’s research has been published in multiple leading journals in the fields of assessment, higher education and mathematics education, such as Studies in Higher Education, Higher Education and Educational Studies in Mathematics. Methodologically, his expertise is in research synthesis and advanced qualitative methods. Currently, he teaches these methods at the University of Hong Kong.
Dr Nieminen is active in editorial work. He is an Associate Editor in Higher Education Research & Development and an Assistant Editor in Teaching in Higher Education.
Dr Nieminen’s background is in teaching. He holds teacher qualifications in mathematics and technology education (University of Helsinki, Finland) and special education (University of Helsinki, Finland).