Supervision
I regularly advise and am open to supervising thesis works (at all levels) touching upon my anthropological interest in material culture, ethnographic experimentation, repair, home and inhabitation issues, and anthropology of art.
Supervisor of 2 PhD Theses:
- Blanca Jové, Thinking Institutional Frameworks with Care: The relation between participation and authorship in discursive public programmes (Defended in 2021 at the Univ. of Leicester);
- Mirimari Väyrynen, Painting as Connector (2023-, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki);
Supervisor of MA and BA at University of Leicester, Baltic Film & Media School, Tallinn University, and Tallinn Technical University;
Final examiner of 1 PhD Theses:
- "From boro Textiles to Boro Objects”. Yoshiko Wada, University of Leicester, 2025.
Intermediate examiner of 4 PhD Theses:
- “Role of More-than-Human Ritualising in Polycrisis”. Mari Keski-Korsu, Aalto University, 2024.
- "The Growing Troubles: The Homogenisation of Historical Exhibition in Chinese Local Museums". Weilun Sun, University of Leicester, 2020
- "Decolonising Museum Notions of Authenticity in the Sarawak Museum: The Lepo’ Tau Kenyah, Kayan, and Berawan paintings". Louise Macul, University of Leicester, 2020
- "New Museum Design Cultures: Harnessing the Potential of Design and ‘Design Thinking’ in Museums". Tom Duncan, University of Leicester, 2020
Also examiner of MA theses and BA at the University of Leicester, Aalto University, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn University, and Tallinn Technical University.
Organiser of Training Events
2023 ‘All what we share’, workshop of the #colleex network, University of Barcelona
2022 ‘Social design as an interdisciplinary practice’, Estonian Academy of Arts
2020 ‘Academic boundaries at work’, seminar at Leicester Institute for Advance Studies
2019 ‘Experiments with knowledge’, Estonian Museum of Applied art & Design
2018 ‘Peripheral wisdom’, research seminar at the HSE Moscow
2018 Critical Heritage & Museum Studies, department seminars at the Univ. of Helsinki
2018 ‘Building lives’, Winter School of the Estonian Academy of Arts
2017 ‘Dialogues between art and anthropology’, roundtable at the EKA Gallery
2014 ‘Sport & Diplomacy’ at the British Embassy to Estonia, 13th EASA conference
2014 ‘Urban Youth and Social Acceleration’, Summer School at Tallinn University
2013–2014 ‘Inimkond’, Department seminars at Tallinn University
