Taina Saarinen

Taina Saarinen is a Research Professor of higher education at the University of Jyväskylä, with a previous position in language education policy. She has published widely on higher education, language education policy, and contemprary and historical language policies, and her latest research interests focus on new nationalism in higher education. She has recently published in journals such as Higher Education, Rethinking History, and Language Policy, and is currently editing a volume on a new material turn in language education with Johanna Ennser‑Kananen. She particularly enjoys multidisciplinary and comparative contexts, which often make unobserved gaps in the existing research visible.