Reijo Miettinen, professor, University of Helsinki, Finland
		Reijo Miettinen is Professor of Innovations and Research Work at the University of Helsinki. Before his recruitment at the University in 1996, he worked for fifteen years in the Technical Research Center of Finland, first as an educational planner in charge of the in-house training of the researchers and, later, as a researcher in the Group of the Technology Studies. He is currently vice Director of the Center for Activity theory and Developmental Work Research at the Department of Education. His research interests lie studying network collaboration and learning in the context of technical innovations and research work, on the basis of activity theory. This work takes place in dialogue with other approaches of studying research practices within science and technology studies, such as actor network theory, symbolic interactionism and ethnomethology. He is also working on the comparison between the conceptions of practice in activity theory and in pragmatism Reijo Miettinen has recently edited with Yrjö Engeström and Raija-Leena Punamäki "Perspectives in Activity Theory" (1999) published by Cambridge University Press. His latest publications include "The riddle of things. Activity theory and actor network theory as approaches of studying innovations." (Mind, Culture, and Activity Vol. 6 (3), 170-195) and "The concept of experiential learning and John Dewey's theory of reflective thought and action."(International Journal of Lifelong Education. Vol 20 (1), 54-72).
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