Department of Social Sciences - News

A new study shows that disadvantaged population groups also perceived their quality of life to be weaker than the Finnish population on average.

An avatar-based dance choreography illustrates the narratives of six study participants of their desired future.

The University of Eastern Finland (UEF) and the University of Namibia (UNAM) have renewed their partnership and expanded it to include the social sciences, as well as activities that support corporate social responsibility of UNAM and global development activities of UEF.

The report is based on research carried out at the University of Eastern Finland between 1989 and 2022.

As a politician with a background in research, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Maria Ohisalo has demanded that decision-making be better informed by research. She will be attending the doctoral conferment ceremony in Kuopio.

The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Culture and Society granted funding for new Academy Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher posts.

Researchers working in a currently ongoing European research project have found that the reasons behind people’s support for populist movements are complex.

The interactions where different actors demand rights for migrants reveal negotiations between the normal that is aspired to and expectations of vulnerability.

Relationships between individuals and groups have been of interest to Professor of Social Psychology Eerika Finell since the early stages of her career.

The university’s first two Bachelor’s degree programmes taught in English, i.e., the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Social Sciences and the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Lifelong Learning and Sustainable Development, will be inviting applications via the Finnish universities’ joint application system.