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Hanna Ojala is a Senior Lecturer in the Unit of Social Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University. She earned her PhD in Adult Education in 2011 and became a Docent in Gender Studies in 2015.
Research Interests: Her work intersects age, gender, and class in contexts like men’s health, retirement, anti-ageing practices, grandfathering, and communities. She leads the ethnographic Yoga for Old Guys study and co-directs the longitudinal MANage project on Finnish men’s ageing. Additional collaborations include multidisciplinary psychosocial cancer research and feminist pedagogy development.
Publications: Frequently appear in journals like Men & Masculinities, Ageing & Society, and The Gerontologist, with thematic emphasis on gendered age relations, bodily norms, and cancer survivorship.
Leadership Roles:
- Vice-Chair, Network for Gender Studies Finland HILMA
- Vice-Chair, Finnish Association of Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities
- Board Member, Sukupuolentutkimus-Genusforskning journal
