Anna Arsniva (ISFJ)

Amanuensis in the Media Lab Helsinki,
Information Officer in the Media Lab and in the Department of Media;
School of Art and Design of Aalto University

I am one of the amebas in between the School's central administration, the departmental/unit administration and the research administration; also popping in and out between teachers, students and study planning. In addition to that, I can write and read, which are pretty good qualifications for my work.

- Media Lab information flow
- planning departmental communications ins and outs with other dept. information officers
- organizing Mlab MA studies with other people
- organizing Mlab doctoral defences
- taking care of studies database information on courses; Mlab study information and tutoring if necessary
- Mlab space bookings
- more and less official stuff: secretary and member in several coordinating and planning groups; coordinating the annual application process; helping the Head of Department with official Big Thingies (like documents); translating
- coordinating and planning our own professional profile within Aalto amanuenses' network
- partly taking care of visits, visitors, various meetings if necessary; creating contacts, visiting places & people - also updating my own knowledge this way

+ lots of other activities, for instance various planning tasks, writing this and that plus nagging about Lab's security

What Anna can't and won't deal with
- finances (cont. Mari, Johanna)
- technical questions (cont. Pekka, Heikki, Ilpo, Jon)
- study affairs on TaiK level or international (operational) level (cont. study affairs office and Helena Härkönen or Nada Al Omair in there, regarding international students' issues)

Educational background:

MA (FM) 1989:
world literature, philosophy, Finnish language (JY)

Non-degree studies in philosophy at the advanced level: Art Philosophy 1992-93 (JY)
Audio describer, 2005 (Näkövammaisten kulttuuripalvelu)
Studies in Japanese language 2007-2008 (Stadia)
Finnish non-degree programme on higher education management, Korkeakouluhallinnon ja johtamisen opintokokonaisuus KOHA 2008-2009 (TaY)

Where to find me

I don't like the idea and/or concept of Facebook, so you can't find me in there. I was in LinkedIn but got fed up with constant invites which I wasn't going to accept. I'm using Twitter and Qaiku for private social and educational needs, and I'm also feeding both Mlab and Dept. of Media Twitters. You can find me in Skype by searching the same nick as I'm using in microblogs. I'm participating a group blog and I do have a couple of blogs of my own. Or actually, my cats write one of them, I'm just channeling. My Flickr account is not a gallery but more like a storage for photos, but below there's a path to it.

Contact: tel (Int +358 9) 470 30 404
(rather mail than call if possible, pls)
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I'll be watching you - Mä tuun kellottaan sua