Noora Ellonen works at Tampere University in the Faculty of Social Science as a senior lecturer. She received her PhD at the same university in 2008. Since then, she has worked as a researcher at the University College for Police for five years and as a teacher and researcher at Tampere University for six years. Her main research interests are child maltreatment and institutional responses related to child maltreatment. She is a member of Finnish Society for Criminology and she has received two national (Finnish) publication awards.