Rate My Professor Paula Koskinen Sandberg

Her research is multidisciplinary, combining organization studies, communication studies, feminist studies, and political/policy studies. She examines how inequalities related to gender, class, and ethnicity are reproduced and challenged in and through communication and organizing in work organizations and society at large. Key research areas include neoliberal competitiveness policies, gender equality policy, advocacy and lobbying, public sector employment, and collective bargaining. As principal investigator, she leads several Academy of Finland-funded projects, such as REDEFINE (Redefining the value of feminized work? Actors, interests and institutional work within Finnish employment relations, 2024–2028), ADVOCACY (The Influence of Business Advocacy in Finnish Employment Relations and Governmental Policies, 2024–2028), and Responsible business conduct in conflict affected context (2024–2026). Selected publications include co-editing the Handbook on Gender and Public Sector Employment (Edward Elgar, 2023); “Maintaining gender inequality in wages? The case of employer organisations’ and business advocacy groups’ resistance to pay transparency legislation in Finland” (Critical Social Policy, 2025, with Aino Sipura); “Doing Feminist Participatory Action Research: The Case of a Social Movement Aiming at Higher Wages for Early Childhood Education Teachers” (Sage Publishing, 2024); and “Intertwining gender inequalities and gender-neutral legitimacy in job evaluation and performance-related pay” (2017, cited 103 times). She co-chairs the European Sociological Association Research Network 14 “Gender Relations in the Labour Market and the Welfare State” and serves on the editorial board of Work, Employment and Society (2022–2025). Her scholarship includes 19 press and media appearances and presentations at international conferences such as the Academy of Management.