Marita Husso is Associate Professor of Social Policy at Tampere University, Finland. She is the PI for the ERASE GBV EU project and the first editor of Interpersonal Violence: Differences and Connections (Routledge 2017). Her research focuses on interpersonal violence, welfare services, care work, social theory and gendered agency.
Sanna Karkulehto is Professor of Literature at the University of Jyvรคskylรค, Finland. Her most recent books include co-edited anthologies Sukupuoli ja vรคkivalta: lukemisen etiikkaa ja politiikkaa (Gender and Violence: Ethics and Politics of Reading, SKS 2017) and Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture (Routledge 2019).
Tuija Saresma is Senior Researcher at the Research Centre for Contemporary Culture, University of Jyvรคskylรค, Finland. She has published widely on affects, anti-feminism, hate speech, masculinity, and populism, including a co-edited open access volume Populism onthe Loose (Nykykulttuuri, 2018).
Jari Eilola is Senior Researcher at the Department of History and Ethnology, University of the Jyvรคskylรค, Finland. He has worked as an Academy Research Fellow on the project Shameful Disharmony of Family Life: Domestic Violence in Finland, 1890-1930.Aarno Laitila is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Jyvรคskylรค, Finland. His expertise includes psychotherapeutic processes especially with families, risks of social exclusion in childhood and domestic violence. He has participated in the development of The Jyvรคskylรค Group Model from the very beginning of the program.
Heli Siltala is University Teacher at the Department of Psychology, University of Jyvรคskylรค, Finland. She is a clinical psychologist and works as Facilitator in The Jyvรคskylรค Group Model for domestic violence. She is also finalizing her dissertation addressing recognition and effects of domestic violence within healthcare settings.