Henna-Riikka Peltola featured on The Best of Our Knowledge

BobBarrettAs always, host Bob Barrett selects an Academic Minute to air during The Best of Our Knowledge.

Each week this program examines some of the issues unique to college campuses, looks at the latest research, and invites commentary from experts and administrators from all levels of education.


For this week‘s edition (#1350), Bob has selected Henna-Riikka Peltola’s segment. A university teacher in the department of music at University of Jyväskylä, Dr. Peltola’s segment discusses how emotions are never as simple as sad or happy.

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Henna-Riikka Peltola graduated from secondary school in Savonlinna art high school in 2002. After high school, he continued his music studies in the first Conservatoire of Kuopio, which was completed ensemble and orchestral musician in 2005, and since then Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences (2005-2009), musician (AMK), majoring in classical singing. Peltola completed a master’s degree from the University of Jyväskylä in 2011, majoring in musicology. In addition to musician’s work Henna-Riikka Peltola has been working on a project worker Eino Roiha Foundation, as well as doctoral students at the University of Jyväskylä Department of Music in 2012-2015. Currently, Peltola serves as a teacher of music at the University of Music in science subjects.

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