GRIFE Consultation Series with Visiting Professor Yrjö Engeström

We are delighted to invite you to the GRIFE Consultation Series in October 2025, featuring our Visiting Professor, Professor Yrjö Engeström from the University of Helsinki.

Yrjö Engeström is Professor Emeritus of Education at University of Helsinki and Professor Emeritus of Communication at University of California, San Diego. He is Director of the Center for Research on Activity, Development and Learning (CRADLE) in Helsinki. Engeström is visiting profesor at Rhodes University, South Africa, and at University West, Sweden.

Engeström applies and develops cultural-historical activity theory and the theory of expansive learning in studies of transformations in education, work, communities and social movements. He is known for the methodology of formative interventions and the Change Laboratory method. His most recent book is Concept Formation in the Wild, published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

From 1995 to 2000, Engeström served as Academy Professor appointed by the Academy of Finland. From 2000 to 2005, he led a National Center of Excellence in Research. He received an honorary doctorate at University of Oslo, Norway, in 2005, and at University of Ioannina, Greece, in 2018. In 2021 he received a lifetime achievement award of the Cultural-Historical Research SIG of the American Educational Research Association.

This is a valuable opportunity to meet Professor Engeström in person and engage in insightful discussion.

Please register to secure your timeslot via the link or QR code below. You will be contacted by email if the timeslot for you is confirmed.

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We can’t wait to welcome you and explore these important discussions together!