Daria Khanolainen is a PhD student at the European Training Network Neo-PRISM-C at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, and a research associate at the Institute of Psychology and Education at Kazan Federal University. She has always been involved in the field of education, and after graduating from Karelian State Pedagogical Academy in 2010 she went on to serve as a design teacher in a comprehensive school in Petrozavodsk, Russia. In 2015–2016 she took a Master’s degree in education management at King’s College London, before returning to Russia.