Samuel Salovaara

Samuel Salovaara is M.Soc.Sc. and a doctoral candidate at the University of Lapland and has also worked in The National health and social care information system monitoring project (STePS 3.0) focusing on social welfare. Salovaara’s current research addresses the utilization of the information produced by social welfare information systems and investigates how the information system becomes part of the various knowledge formation processes in social work, such as case-based social work and knowledge-based management. Salovaara has also worked as a social worker in the fields of child welfare and social and crisis emergency services and as a senior application analyst in the information system development project.