Kalypso Filippou is a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Applied Educational Science. Her research focuses on higher education, international students, post-graduate thesis supervision and international education. She is a co-leader in the EqualISM research project which examines how the lives of international students in Finnish universities were (re)constructed during the COVID-19 pandemic (https://sites.utu.fi/equalism/). She is a Senior Editor at the Journal of Praxis in Higher Education (https://journals.hb.se/jphe) and a board member of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers in Finland (CHERIF).
Kalypso graduated from the Doctoral Programme on Educational Policy, Lifelong Learning and Comparative Education Research (KEVEKO) at the University of Turku, Finland. Her doctoral research examined students’ and university teachers’ experiences in the international master’s degree programmes in Finnish universities, focusing on intercultural thesis supervision. She completed her master's degree in Learning, Learning Environment and Educational Systems, University of Turku (2012-2014) and received her Bachelor's Degree of Educational Sciences - Primary School Teacher at the University of Cyprus (2008-2012). She has been an exchange student at the University of Stockholm (2009-2010). As a researcher she has done research visits in universities in New Zealand, Sweden, and Denmark, and presented in more than 20 national and international conferences.
Kalypso has been a university lecturer at the Department of Teacher Education (University of Turku) in the UTUPeda - Center for University Pedagogy and Research since 2021. She has taught multiple courses in the basic, intermediate, and advanced level of university pedagogy studies for university staff members. Previously, she has also taught courses for bachelor's and master's degree students, as well as doctoral researcher.
Overall, she has been the responsible teacher for the courses:
She also taught at the courses:
Currently she is a doctoral supervisor for two doctoral researchers. Previously, she has been an assistant at the master's thesis seminars of the Educational and Learning master's degree programme at the University of Turku and a guest lecturer at the course 'International and Comparative Education'. Similarly, she was a teaching assistant at the courses 'Culturally and Linguistically responsive teaching', and 'Cultural Responsiveness, Diversity, and Inclusiveness'.