Katja Mäkinen works as a senior lecturer at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä. She has a Title of Docent in political science, PhD in political science and MA in art education. Currently she is JYU’s consortium PI in a research project d@rts(dialoguing@rts – Advancing Cultural Literacy for Social Inclusion through Dialogical Arts Education) funded by the HorizonEurope Programme. Previously she has worked in several multidisciplinary research projects funded by the Academy of Finland, Kone Foundation, European Research Council and HorizonEurope. She was a visiting fellow in the University of Bologna (2021), European University Institute in Florence (2018) and the University of Auckland, New Zealand (2012-13, 2015-16). Mäkinen conducts conceptual and ethnographic research on participatory governance and EU policies on citizenship, culture and education. Her research focuses on citizenship, participation, identities, cultural heritage and performing arts. Her research interests include temporality and spatiality as well as the social impact of cultural institutions and arts-based practices.
