A poster on the interventions performed on the online journal of Finnish universities of applied sciences. The actions have taken place in the editing, marketing, and networking process, and the outcomes show that action research helps in planning, focusing and analysing the interventions.

1. THE OUTCOMES OF
THE INTERVENTIONS
PERFORMED ON
THE UAS JOURNAL
E-PUBLICATION
Dr Mervi Friman, Mr Mauri Kantola,
Ms Lotta Linko
The action research approach helps the developers to focus development interventions in changing environments.
Action research strips the processes, forces us to make conscious interventions and enables us to study them in the
light of measurable results.
www.uasjournal.fi
uasjournal@hamk.fi
mervi.friman@hamk.fi
mauri.kantola@turkuamk.fi
lotta.linko@hamk.fi
Finnish
Universities of
Applied Sciences’
UAS Journal
network and
e-publication
What are the interventions performed on the
UAS network and the UAS Journal?
What are the
measured outcomes of
those interventions?
INTERVENTIONS
EDITING PROCESS
• Merger
• Board
• Platform, structure, process
• Themes
• Article length
• Evaluation
MARKETING PROCESS
• E-mailing
• Network marketing
• Transparency
• Seminar promotion
NETWORKING PROCESS
• Co-writing
• Peer reading
• Social media
• Board member activity
OUTCOMES
EDITING PROCESS
• One online publication
• Production network
• Production process
• Theme issues
• HTML format articles
• Continuous development
MARKETING PROCESS
• New visitors
• Existing members
• Making of articles
• Posters, papers
NETWORKING PROCESS
• Co-written articles
• Referee process
• SM presence
• Active board members
METHODS
• Quantitative
analysis on
the content,
production
process, and
participating
network
• User data
evaluation by
Google
Analytics
• Target self
evaluation by
individuals
and
groups