Rate My Professor Mervi Kaukko

Kaukko's research focuses on migration and refugee studies related to childhood and education, refugee students’ educational success and school wellbeing, informal learning practices, ethical praxis in intercultural education, and practice theories including practice architectures. Her key publications include the book "Toimintatutkimus: Käytännön opas" (2023), "Pedagogical love in Finland and Australia: A study of refugee children and their teachers" (2022, 113 citations), "‘Learning how to go on’: Refugee students and informal learning practices" (2020, 113 citations), "The management of time and waiting by unaccompanied asylum-seeking girls in Finland" (2018, 106 citations), and the co-edited volume "Living Well in a World Worth Living in for All Volume 1: Current Practices of Social Justice, Sustainability and Wellbeing" (2023). She has received the Advancing Women’s Research Success Grant (2018), Emerging Action Researcher award (2013), KidzFlicks (2018), and Fulbright Senior Scholar (2022–2023). Her scholarship informs refugee education practices internationally.