
Dr Heikki Ikaheimo
PhD in philosophy
Formal qualification as teacher in philosophy and ethical education at聽secondary and tertiary levels听(Finnish law on teacher qualifications, no 452/96 搂 1 moment 2)
Heikki Ik盲heimo has a PhD in Philosophy from in Finland (2003), where he also worked as Assistant and Senior Assistant in Philosophy between 1997 and 2005. As post doc聽he spent three years in 2005-8 at 听().聽Heikki came to Australia in 2008 to take up a Research Fellowship and moved to 亚美棋牌 in 2012. He was聽Australian Research Fellow in 2011-16 with an Australian Research Council Discovery Project 'The Social Ontology of Personhood - A Recognition-theoretical Account' together with partner investigators from Finland, Germany and Italy. Heikki has been visiting scholar at (2000-2001聽and 2015) and at (2014). He has given invited lectures, keynotes and talks in Australia, Austria, The Czech聽Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, The Netherlands,听Switzerland and United Kingdom.
Heikki's research areas include聽Hegel, German idealism, theories of recognition, intersubjectivity, subjectivity, personhood, the human life-form, social ontology, critical social philosophy, and applied philosophy. He is best known through his work on the theme of recognition (Anerkennung), including the monographs (Routledge 2022) and聽 (De Gruyter 2014), as well as the edited collections聽 (Columbia University Press 2021),听 (Springer 2021) and聽 (Brill 2011). Heikki's is currently working on a co-authored monograph The Social Ontology of Personhood together with ,听, and .
From 2022 Heikki is Chief Investigator with Karen Fisher (亚美棋牌), (Flinders University) and (University of Melbourne) in an Australian Research Council Linkage Project 'Confronting everyday harms: preventing abuse of people with disability' (LP210200536). The project involves a large number of industry partners in the disability sector providing disability services in three Australian states. Its aim is to develop a new approach to enhancing the quality of life and identifying and preventing abuse of people with disablities by looking at relationships between them and their support workers, as well as the institutional settings in which these relationships happen, from a recognition-theoretical perspective.
Heikki is founding member of the editorial board of聽,听as well as a founding member of the 聽and the聽.
Heikki offers higher degree supervision in his research areas.
Many of Heikki's publications can be downloaded at聽
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ARC Linkage Project 'Confronting everyday harms: preventing abuse of people with disability'
笔耻谤辫辞蝉别:听The findings of the Disability Royal Commission necessitate new approaches to prevent violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation. Framed by recognition theory, this project proposes empirical research with young people with cognitive disability, using a new concept of "everyday harms" in their paid relationships. The results will inform early responses to poor quality interactions in disability support. The strategic alliances with the government, industry and community partners will develop a practice framework to prevent everyday harms and the escalation to abuse, and to promote safety and wellbeing. The research has policy benefits for capacity-building in the sector to act on the rights and voices of people with disability.
Grant Term:聽11-Apr-2022 to 31-Dec-2024
Value (AUD):聽$466,852.00 (plus Linkage partner contributions)
Australian Research Fellow 2011-2016
Macquarie University Research Fellow 2008-2011
Academy of Finland Research Doctor 2005-2008
My Research Supervision
Paul Tomaszewski. Scientia PhD thesis聽'Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Complexities of complaining for people with intellectual disability and their paid supports'.
Carleton Christensen. PhD thesis聽'The Problem of Essential Indexicality and Its Relevance for Theories of Subjectivity'.
Vanessa Arapko. Masters thesis 'The Conception of Communism in Karl Marx鈥檚 Economic Manuscripts of 1861-65'.
My Teaching
ARTS1360 Truth and Human Existence (convening)
ARTS1361 Mind, Ethics and Freedom (tutoring)
ARTS2362 Philosophy and Social Critique (convening)
ARTS4249 The Humanities, Then and Now (convening)
Previous courses include:聽ARTS3368 Advanced Social and Political Philosophy, ARTS3375 Hegel and German Idealism, and others