Heidi Hartikainen

Heidi Hartikainen is a postdoctoral researcher in the INTERACT research unit at the faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering of Oulu University. She is interested in the themes of safety and privacy in the social web, and on empowerment and activism through technology design and making. Her background is in information security. In her PhD carried out at the University of Oulu, she studied how children approach online safety and how it is mediated in schools and families. After her dissertation, she continued research related to youth online safety.