Sari Karttunen

Presentation

• Research projects

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  • 2026 (ongoing research)

    The Value of Copyright

    The ability to determine the value of intellectual property is important from the perspectives of both business growth and securing financing. However, in Finland, companies have only rarely identified all of their intangible assets, and the tools for determining the value of copyright assets are insufficient.

  • 2026 (ongoing research) Education and competencies

    High-Quality Basic Education in the Arts in Espoo, Helsinki and Vantaa

  • 2025 — 2026 (ongoing research) Evaluation and development

    State of Cultural Policy

    The State of Cultural Policy project aims to improve the overall understanding of the current state of cultural policy in Finland and to promote informed public discussion. The project pilots the State of Cultural Policy 2025 publication and organises the State of Cultural Policy event, which serves as a new kind of forum for societal discussion on cultural policy in Finland.

  • 2021 (ongoing research) Equality and participation

    Diversity and equity in arts and culture

    Cupore’s research frequently addresses issues of diversity and equality in the arts and culture sector. The Ministry’s Working Group for Cultural Policy, Immigrants and Promotion of Cultural Diversity (2021), and the subsequent Ministry’s Action Plan to Promote Diversity in the Arts and Culture Sector (2023) proposed that Cupore begin regular reporting on these topics.

  • 2023 — 2025 Art and artists

    Artists’ Social and Psychological Well-being at Work

    Cupore is participating in a subproject focusing on the arts, culture and events sectors in the Mental Health Toolkit project coordinated by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in 2023–2025.

  • 2023 — 2025 Copyright

    Copyright questions in scientific research

    Cupore conducts a research project on copyright issues related to scientific research. The topics concern especially the use of copyrighted research material and the availability of research publications.

  • 2022 — 2023 Art and artists

    VISMA

  • 2020 — 2021 Production and events

    Cultural policies and regional economic impacts of cultural events

  • 2018 — 2020 Evaluation and development

    Art in use

  • 2017 — 2019 Municipalities and regions

    EspooCult

  • 2017 — 2019 Evaluation and development

    The evaluation of the operational subsidies of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland

  • 2016 — 2017 Evaluation and development

    Cultural and Creative Spillovers

  • 2015 — 2021 Equality and participation

    ArtsEqual

  • 2014 — 2016 Production and events

    Impacts of festivals and cultural events on cultural policies and local economies

  • Art and artists

    The role of curators in the production of contemporary art

• Cupore's publications

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  • Cupore's publications 2025 Gender-Based Violence in Arts and Culture
  • Cupore's publications 2025 Copyright Questions in Scientific Research
  • Cupore's publications 2024 City cultural official as a strategic agent: Governing partnerships and networks towards sustainability.
  • Cupore's publications 2024 We made it! The value of volunteering for festivals
  • Cupore's publications 2023 Artists with Foreign Background in Finland
  • Cupore's publications 2023 Diversity in the field of arts and culture: Development of monitoring data (2nd ed.)
  • Cupore's publications 2021 Expanding professional responsibility in arts education
  • Cupore's publications 2021 Capturing societal impact: the case of state-funded festivals in Finland
  • Cupore's publications 2020 City Development and Cultural Policy
  • Cupore's publications 2020 Public Art in Planning and Development: Economic Value and Evaluation Methods
  • Cupore's publications 2020 The road to an inclusive city: cultural diversity, participation and accessibility
  • Cupore's publications 2019 Participation in cultural events and creative leisure activities in Espoo
  • Cupore's publications 2019 The Impacts of Arts and Culture Festivals
  • Cupore's publications 2017 KUULTO and Tampere Together
  • Cupore's publications 2016 Festivals in Finland

• Other publications

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  Selected publications (2015-)

  Buscatto, M., Karttunen, S., & Provansal, M. (2025). Conclusion. In M. Buscatto, S. Karttunen, & M. Provansal (Eds.), Gender-Based Violence in Arts and Culture: Perspectives on Education and Work (pp. 231–240). Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0436.10

  Buscatto, M., Karttunen, S., & Provansal, M. (2025). Introduction. In M. Buscatto, S. Karttunen, & M. Provansal (Eds.), Gender-Based Violence in Arts and Culture: Perspectives on Education and Work (pp. 1–14). Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0436.01

  Castro-Cifuentes, J., Gibson, J., Karttunen, S., & van Zijl, A. (2025). Reclaiming musics, shaping selves and healing moments: Motivations for participatory practice among musicians in Belgium, Colombia, Finland and the United Kingdom. International Journal of Community Music, 18(1), 47–67. https://doi.org/10.1386/ijcm_00118_1

  Rossi, L.-M., & Karttunen, S. (2025). The Helsinki School: Gendered Image Shaping and Gender-Based Violence in a Photography Branding Project. In M. Buscatto, S. Karttunen, & M. Provansal (Eds.), Gender-Based Violence in Arts and Culture: Perspectives on Education and Work (pp. 101–126). Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0436.05

  Westerlund, H., & Karttunen, S. (2025). Transforming Higher Music Education. Systems Learning through Counter-Stories of Finnish Socially Engaged Musicians. In A. Petri-Preis & A. Ziegenmeyer (Eds.), Turning Social. The Social-Transformative Potential of Music Mediation. mdwPress.

  Karttunen, S., & Koskela, K. (2024). City cultural official as a strategic agent: Governing partnerships and networks towards sustainability. City, Culture and Society, 37, Article 100581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100581

  Westerlund, H., &; Karttunen, S. (2024). The protean music career as a sociopolitical orientation: The mutually integrated, non-hierarchical work values of socially engaged musicians. Musicae Scientiae, 28(3), 502–519. https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649231222548

  Ilmola-Sheppard, L., Rautiainen, P. Westerlund, H., Lehikoinen, K., Karttunen, S., Juntunen, M-L. &, Anttila, E. (2021). ArtsEqual : equality as the future path for the arts and arts education services. University of the Arts Helsinki.

  Luonila, M., Renko, V., Jakonen, O., Karttunen, S. & Kanerva, A. (2021). The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Field of Finnish Cultural Industries: Revealing and Challenging Policy Structures. Teoksessa E. Salvador, T. Navarrete & A. Srakar (toim.) Cultural Industries and the Covid-19 Pandemic: A European Focus. Routledge.

  Westerlund, H., Karttunen, S., Lehikoinen, K., Laes T., Väkevä, L. & Anttila, E. (2021). Expanding professional responsibility in arts education: Social innovations paving the way for systems reflexivity. International Journal of Education & the Arts. http://www.ijea.org/v22n8/

  Luonila, M., Kurlin, A., & Karttunen, S. (2020). Capturing societal impact: the case of state-funded festivals in Finland. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 13(3), 397–418.

  Sloboda, J., Baker, G., De bisschop, A., Karttunen, S., Mazzola, A., Rojas, J., Van Zijl, A., Westerlund, H. & Zapata Restrepo, G. (2020). Music for Social Impact: an overview of context, policy and activity in four countries, Belgium, Colombia, Finland, and the UK. Musiikkikasvatus – Finnish Journal of Music Education, 23(1–2), 116–143.

  Karttunen, S. (2019). Self-Precarization and Structural Poverty: The Case of Finnish Grant-Oriented Visual Artists. Recherches sociologiques & anthropologiques, 50(2), 27–51.

  Karttunen, S. & Houni, P. (2018). ArtsEqual 2015–2021: The challenges of a Large-Scale Research Initiative in Finland. Conjunctions, 5(1), 1–11.

  Karttunen, S. & Luonila, M. (2017). Festivals in Finnish Cultural Policies: Cure-All or False Hope? HTHIC Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality International Conference 2017. Conference Proceedings. University of Turku & Elgin Co. Publication of Turku School of Economics, Pori Unit A55/2017, 115–125.