Henna Asikainen
Professor, Namibia University of Science and Technology
Introduction
Henna Asikainen is a Senior lecturer at the University of Helsinki and a research director in Wells project. She received the Title of Docent (equivalent as Associate Professor) in university pedagogy in 2018. Her research focuses on the relationship between learning and wellbeing and supporting and developing students wellbeing and lifelong learning skills with interventions courses. She mainly works in the WELLS Promoting university students’ well-being and life-long learning -project and is a PI in Wells R2B project which aims to develop wellbeing interventions for international educational institutions as well as companies. To date, she has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers on the topics of wellbeing, learning, and teaching. The research was done using multi-method approach such as quantitative, qualitative and biophysical measures.
