Doctoral Education Network in Marketing (DENIM)

The Doctoral Education Network in Marketing (DENIM) is a cooperation network among marketing faculty in KATAJA member universities. The education programme is open to all doctoral students in marketing who are enrolled at one of the Finnish universities that offer a doctoral degree in business administration.

The objectives of DENIM are (i) to enhance the academic study of marketing and closely related research domains and (ii) to support doctoral studies within these fields.

To support the doctoral studies DENIM offers (i) core and specialized marketing courses with highly qualified international and national faculty, and (ii) participation in bi-annual national tutorials that gather Ph.D. students and faculty from all KATAJA member universities. Furthermore, DENIM offers an online networking platform to its members on LinkedIn, which can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9022553/

The board members are: 

- Anna-Greta Nyström, Åbo Akademi University (chair)
- Henri Weijo, Aalto University School of Business 
- Pia Polsa, Hanken School of Economics
- Elina Närvänen, Tampere University
- Aino Halinen-Kaila, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku
- Tommi Laukkanen, University of Eastern Finland
- Outi Uusitalo, University of Jyväskylä
- Hannu Makkonen, University of Vaasa
- Pauliina Ulkuniemi, University of Oulu
- Jarkko Niemi, LUT University