• Head of the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Oulu 1991-1997
• Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Education, several periods 1991-1997
• Chairman of the Committee for University Pedagogics at the University of Oulu 1993-1996
• Head of the Finnish Association of Education 1992-1993
• Member of a Committee for Developing the Pedagogical Studies in Teacher Education. New Modes for Practice Teaching, Ministry of Education, 1992-1993
• Member of a Committee for the Evaluation and Development of Educational Sciences, Ministry of Education, 1993-1994,
• Member of an Evaluation Group for External Evaluation of Teaching at the University of Tampere, Ministry of Education, 1994-1995
• Academy of Finland; member of the Research Council for Culture and Society, 1994-1997
• Expert for evaluation scientific competences for docents, associate professors and professors in several Finnish universities.
• Member of the editorial board of Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research since 1997
• Member of the evaluation panel for evaluating educational science in the University of Helsinki 1999.
  

Research grants and scholarships:

• School Administration 1972-1976: project on nongraded upper secondary school
• School Administration 1982-1985: research project on developing the pupil evaluation in upper secondary school
• Academy of Finland 1985-1986: senior researcher scholarship
• City of Oulu 1995-1998: project on Evaluation and Collaboration for School Development
• Academy of Finland 1994: doctoral programme Teacher's Professional Growth
• Academy of Finland 1997: grant for preparing a TSER project
• Academy of Finland 1998-1999: post as a senior researcher
• Academy of Finland 1999-2001 grant for narrative-biographical research on teachers