Sanna Malinen

Sanna Malinen
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Canterbury, University of Otago
Thesis	Implicit and explicit attitudes towards older workers: Their predictive utility and the role of attitude malleability (2009)
Doctoral advisor	Lucy Johnston
Academic work
Institutions	University of Canterbury

Sanna Malinen is a Finnish–New Zealand psychology academic, and is a full professor at the University of Canterbury, specialising in social and organisational psychology.

Academic career

Malinen is Finnish, and emigrated to New Zealand in 1996.[1] Malinen completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Otago, followed by a Master of Science in psychology and a PhD at the University of Canterbury. Her doctoral thesis was titled Implicit and explicit attitudes towards older workers: Their predictive utility and the role of attitude malleability and was completed in 2009.[2] Malinen then joined the faculty of the School of Business at University of Canterbury, rising to full professor in 2024.[3] She works as part of the Workplace Analytics group with Professor Katharina Näswall.[1] In 2013 Malinen was awarded the University of Canterbury School of Business and Economics Early Career Research award.[4]

Malinen is an organisational and applied psychologist, and her research covers topics such as leadership development, and how to build resilience in workplaces and communities.[1] She has researched what factors in team meetings enable better decision-making, and the concept of 'paradoxical leadership' in public organisations, defined as 'the ability to balance competing structural and relational demands over time'.[5][6][7] Malinen is also interested in environmental psychology, including the use of values in environmental management and the connection between nature and wellbeing, and disaster management within organisations and communities.[1][7] Malinen has collaborated on research on cultural and ecological resilience with Professor Jacinta Ruru of the University of Otago and Dr Phil Lyver of Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research as part of the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge.[8]

Malinen is married to an ecologist, and has two children.[1]

Selected works

• Joana R. C. Kuntz; Katharina Näswall; Sanna Malinen (June 2016). "Resilient Employees in Resilient Organizations: Flourishing Beyond Adversity". Industrial and Organizational Psychology: perspectives on science and practice. 9 (2): 456–462. doi:10.1017/IOP.2016.39. ISSN 1754-9426. Wikidata Q125520551.
• Joana R. C. Kuntz; Sanna Malinen; Katharina Näswall (September 2017). "Employee resilience: Directions for resilience development". Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research. 69 (3): 223–242. doi:10.1037/CPB0000097. ISSN 1065-9293. Wikidata Q125520553.
• Mark Hsueh; Kumar Yogeeswaran; Sanna Malinen (3 March 2015). ""Leave Your Comment Below": Can Biased Online Comments Influence Our Own Prejudicial Attitudes and Behaviors?: Online Comments on Prejudice Expression". Human Communication Research. 41 (4): 557–576. doi:10.1111/HCRE.12059. ISSN 0360-3989. Wikidata Q127256206.
• Karen Tonkin; Sanna Malinen; Katharina Näswall; Joana C. Kuntz (10 January 2018). "Building employee resilience through wellbeing in organizations". Human Resource Development Quarterly. 29 (2): 107–124. doi:10.1002/HRDQ.21306. ISSN 1044-8004. Wikidata Q125520543.
• Katharina Näswall; Sanna Malinen; Joana Kuntz; Morgana Hodliffe (1 July 2019). "Employee resilience: development and validation of a measure". Journal of Managerial Psychology. 34 (5): 353–367. doi:10.1108/JMP-02-2018-0102. ISSN 0268-3946. Wikidata Q125520565.
• Sanna Malinen; Lucy Johnston (1 January 2013). "Workplace ageism: discovering hidden bias". Experimental Aging Research. 39 (4): 445–465. doi:10.1080/0361073X.2013.808111. ISSN 0361-073X. PMID 23875840. Wikidata Q50699383.

References

1. "Team 1". Workplace Analytics. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
2. Malinen, Sanna (2009). Implicit and explicit attitudes towards older workers: Their predictive utility and the role of attitude malleability (PhD thesis). UC Research Repository.
3. "UC appoints 14 new professors | University of Canterbury". www.canterbury.ac.nz. 1 December 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
4. "Professor Sanna Malinen: Professional". profiles.canterbury.ac.nz. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
5. Exon, Frank (24 March 2020). "Is paradoxical leadership the competency we need now, more than ever?". Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA). Retrieved 9 July 2024.
6. Naswall, Katharina; Malinen, Sanna (7 February 2024). "Frustrated by tedious and unproductive meetings? These 2 proven strategies can help teams work smarter". The Conversation. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
7. "Academic profile" Professor Sanna Malinen". profiles.canterbury.ac.nz. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
8. Māori, Te Poutama (7 February 2023). "Te Poutama Māori Research". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 9 July 2024.

External links

• By using their resilience, organizations can survive even from severe crisis, Sanna Malinen on the Filosofian Akatemia Oy podcast (in English, via YouTube)