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Responsibilities and tasks

Senior Lecturer (development and implementation of courses in first and second year within the Degree Programme - English track).

Int'l Mobility Contact for Social Services (coordination of curriculum specific aspects for incoming and outgoing students),

Projects

Continuing research and publications on 'Qualified Empathy' development in students. (Nordplus 2017-2019)

Coordinating teacher in the development and implementation of Social Work in Urban Areas - International Joint Semester Programme.  

Project worker and substance expert in the Urban SOS Erasmus+ Project (2019-2022)

Degrees, certifications and courses

Licensed Clinical Social Worker, SW6198

Publications

Attracting the next generation: gamification in education (2021). Hiiltä ja Timanttia. Mäki-Reinikka E. & Rauhala L.A.

Qualified Empathy: “from understanding to action” (2021). Uudistuva sosiaalialan osaaminen: sosiaalialan opiskelijoiden ja opettajien yhteisblogi. Raatikainen, E., Rauhala L.A., & Mäenpää, S.

An educational intervention focused on teaching Qualified Empathy to social work students in Finland (2021). Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education. Raatikainen, E., Rauhala L.A., & Mäenpää, S.

Urban spaces in the time of Covid­19.
Analysis of values, lived experience, and
power (2020). Rauhala L., Lehto-Lunden, T. & Määttänen, H. Hyvinvointi ja terveys 
poikkeus oloissa - Metropolia UAS

Qualified Empathy – the new superpower! Can using aesthetic methods help you flourish? (2018). Hiiltä ja Timanttia. Rauhala L., Raatikainen E.  ja Mäenpää S.

Qualified Empathy - A key element for an empowering professional (2017). Sosiaalipedagoginen aikakauskirja, vuosikirja 2017, vol. 18. Raatikainen E., Rauhala  L, ja Mäenpää S.

Networks

• Qualified Empathy Nordplus
• Social Work in Urban Areas Collaboration
• Urban SOS Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership 

Association

• Talentia
• OAJ
• American Women's Club

Interests

I am interested in the process of lifelong learning and continuing education for social services providers.  I enjoy mentoring students and the opportunity to help others achieve wholeheartedness in life and in work.  I am interested in the areas of Urban Social Work, Social Pedagogy, Development of Mental Health Services, Travel and Diversity, Reading and spending time with my husband.