Joonas

Uotinen

Having started my research on happiness in 2013, I have tried to read a variety of different viewpoints on the topic and I have immersed myself into alternative communities and tried to test results and happiness philosophies in practice. With the rising consciousness on the ecological limits of the planet and with my degree in natural sciences, I have felt the necessity of trying to combine ecological sustainability with happiness. In my research I use and I have used both large quantitative and self-collected qualitative datasets. The qualitative dataset is on the happiness and well-being conceptions of some of the indigenous peoples in Central India, collected through structured, thematic and in-depth interviews, and it has been combined with two other independently collected qualitative datasets on the conceptions of ethics and the experienced ontologies amongst those peoples. Those two other datasets were collected by MSc Tikli Loivaranta, University of Turku, Finland, and MPhil Arunopol Seal, Ambedkar University, India.