Updated 4.11.2025
My career as a lecturer ends on August 31, 2026. Starting September 1, 2026, it is the right time to focus on other things and roles after my prolonged "schooling" .
Table of contents
1. Juhaknuuttila.fi is a gateway to collaboration with me2. Why me?
3. At work
3.1 At work 2025-2026
3.2 My education in the social sector
3.3 My experience in customer service and management in social care
3.4 My experience in teaching
3.5 Involved in Turku University of Applied Sciences' research and development activities
3.6 Other things related to my teaching work
4. My own time
3.3 My experience in customer service and management in social care
3.4 My experience in teaching
3.5 Involved in Turku University of Applied Sciences' research and development activities
3.6 Other things related to my teaching work
4. My own time
1. The Juhaknuuttila.fi website is a gateway to collaboration with me
I am Juha Knuuttila, age 64 years. My page is my personal virtual office and an open partner's gateway to my digital activities, materials and collaboration with me. The page contains, among other things, contact information, blog posts and videos , news, information about me, information about my activities and a link library.
2. Why am I me?
I was born in Kankaanpää, Satakunta, in 1961. I spent my childhood and youth with my mother, father, and my younger brothers, born in 1962 and 1969, in Pori, living in the city center and Vähärauma (my first two or three years were spent in Honkajoki/Kankaanpää).My youth was spent in Vähärauma, Pori . Home has always been a source of strength for me. In the winter, we watched and played ice hockey with a group of friends, in the summer we went fishing and swimming. On the weekends, we went to the movies, hung out and did things together with friends. Mainly in Länsi-Pori, less often in the city center.
I went to school in Vähärauma. I graduated from Länsi-Pori Upper Secondary School in 1980. In 1980-1981 I got to know Turku as a conscript, from the Heikkilä barracks area, in the Turku Air Defense Battery. After the army, I did forest improvement work and worked as a substitute teacher and began studying social policy at the Western Finland Summer University.
In 1982, I began my studies as a part-time Turku resident at the University of Turku , Faculty of Social Sciences, majoring in social policy, and graduated with a Master of Political Science in 1989. Already in 1986, I moved to permanent jobs and working life (as a social worker at the Turku Child Welfare Office 1986-1989 and as a social secretary of the municipality of Vahto 1989-1990). I worked as a substitute social worker and also in internships in 1982-1985. In 1990, I started working as a teacher at the Kaarina Social Work Educational Institution. Since 1985, my home has been in Turku. In 2025, I will be active, live and do my work mainly in the city center of Turku, in the Puistomäki district. I have lived in Turku for 40 years now and that is why I dare to say that I am a Turku resident . However, I am also a mixture of Satakunta and Western Finnish . Through my parents, my bloodline is also from Southern Ostrobothnia , the land of the Puukko Junkers . This "mix of my provincial roots" is certainly visible "in both good and bad ways". However, because of my roots, there is something more in me than just Turkuness.
In working life, I have had a long career in social welfare and social services, working in the field of teaching, development and administration of bachelor's degrees, with Turku University of Applied Sciences as my employer. Before working as a social worker, I worked as a play director, built sewers, planted seedlings, measured and marked/measured ditch lines in forests, maintained lawns, was an office secretary, and was an assistant childminder/childminder (i.e. I handled matters related to establishing paternity, child custody and maintenance).
3. At work
3.1 In the works 2025-2026
In working life, I work as a lecturer at Turku University of Applied Sciences and train social workers and early childhood education social workers, mainly for the social welfare field in Western Finland. My career as a lecturer will end on September 1, 2026, because now is the right time to focus fully on my own time and life after a long "schooling" .
3.2 My social work education
My background education is a Master of Political Science and a social worker from the University of Turku (1989). I completed my teacher education studies at the Helsinki Institute of Nursing (1995), and my specialist professional qualification as a product developer at Verutumi (2022). I have also completed studies in social and healthcare information management at the University of Eastern Finland, equivalent to a Bachelor's degree (2004-).
3.3 My experience in customer service and management tasks in social care
At the beginning of my career, from 1982 to 1990, I worked as a substitute or full-time child supervisor, a child welfare social worker, and a social director of a small municipality. From 1990 to 2020, I have worked in voluntary work: as a mediator in disputes related to child custody and visitation rights, a mediator in criminal cases (City of Turku), in the administration of child welfare organizations (chairman of Mm. Kota ry), and as an on-call person in a children's chat service (Sos-Lapsikylä).
Through my long work experience, I have the identity of a teacher, tutor and educational developer with a Bachelor of Social Sciences (BA). But what is lurking behind the scenes? As a social worker, it is the identity, experience and vision of a child welfare social worker.
3.4 My experience in teaching social welfare
I have been teaching at Turku University of Applied Sciences since the early 1990s in various roles: full-time tutor, department head, program manager and education manager. Since 2003, I have held the position of lecturer.
My work as a lecturer mainly includes teaching and supervision. My professional area of expertise in social welfare is social policy, social security, social welfare, social services, public administration, social and educational entrepreneurship, and service planning and service management. The main teaching areas in 2024 are public administration, organizing and producing social welfare services, leadership, and entrepreneurship.
3.5 Involved in Turku University of Applied Sciences' research and development activities
Part of my working time is also spent on research, development and innovation. For the past 20 years, I have been particularly interested in product development and design of learning environments .
3.6 Other matters related to my teaching work
I have also worked as an AKAVA JS teacher representative at the Kaarina Social Welfare Educational Institution.
4. My own time
I am a married man, from Turku , a father of two adult children and a grandfather of two grandchildren. Outside of my duties as a lecturer, I can be found doing a variety of things. I will tell you more about these on the activities tab .
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