Department of Social Sciences - News

The Universities of Helsinki, Lapland, Oulu and Vaasa, and LAB University of Applied Sciences, join the Sustainability Studies Network.

The Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies’ very own Staff Scientist is tasked with developing the faculty’s data-intensive research infrastructures and methodological expertise.

Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland are currently studying whether group-based digital gaming can improve the prospects, well-being and life management of young people at risk of social exclusion in the North Savo region.

Kone Foundation has selected 13 research projects from UEF for funding, which amounts to a total of 2.6 million euros.

The festive atmosphere of the doctoral conferment ceremony held in Kuopio last June can now be revisited via a commemorative book, and via a video of the entire ceremonial conferment of degrees.

Maintaining religious values and framing in daily family living helps transcend boundaries that may strengthen unity and is upbeat to the studied Finnish-African parents.

Doctoral researchers graduating from the Neuro-Innovation PhD programme will have exceptionally broad expertise and solid transferable skills.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Director of North Savo Wellbeing Services County Marko Korhonen, Doctor of Social Sciences, has been selected as the Alumnus of the Year of the University of Eastern Finland.

The University of Eastern Finland has appointed eight new Senior University Lecturers and one new Senior Clinical Lecturer, to start in their positions on 1 December 2022.

The current perception of Finland as a model country for equality often prevents us from seeing not only structural inequalities, but also various more subtle forms of discrimination and exclusion.