MCOR & MA in Education | Educator & Researcher | Gender-Inclusive Education Specialist | University of Eastern Finland | Co-Design in Learning Practitioner
Milla Inkila's research addresses a question that most education systems are only beginning to take seriously: how do educators develop the mental models required for genuinely gender-inclusive practice, not just policy compliance? With a Master of Change and Organisational Resilience from academyEX and a Master of Arts in Education from the University of Eastern Finland, she brings a cross-cultural perspective to educational change that refuses to treat systemic problems as individual ones.
Her background spans both Finnish and Aotearoa New Zealand educational contexts, giving her a comparative lens on how education systems approach change and what makes some approaches more durable than others. She works as both educator and researcher, which means her understanding of entrenched practice is not theoretical: she has been inside it, working to shift it from the inside.
At academyEX, she supports educators and leaders to navigate the complexity of systemic change in learning environments, helping them understand why sustainable improvement requires changing mental models, not just policies. She is the advisor who asks the structural question behind the surface problem.