Doctoral Programme of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Each of the faculty’s professionals approaches society from the perspective of their own academic discipline.  ​The current research themes are listed below:

• Political organizations, international relations and government with the objective of conducting research on the state, political systems and power.
• The recent history of politics, international relations and society
• Contemporary East-Asian societies and politics including their recent histories.
• Bioethics, philosophy of political and social sciences, and the history of philosophy (especially early modern philosophy)
• Research on cognition and various states of consciousness, studying the neural basis of various cognitive processes, and research on reading and reading comprehension.
• Multicultural Research, Political Sociology, Sociology of Housing, Social Inequalities, Social Theory and Welfare Research

Fortcoming open calls to the doctoral programme:

1.-19 of March 2021, call for study rights, decisions by 31st of May 2021. Link to the application.

Contact:

Email: socpostgraduate@utu.fi

The Direct of the Doctoral Programme:
professor Juha Räikkä

The Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme:
coordinator Vesa Rautio

Please contact the coordinator, if you want to attend the emailning list for doctoral students or supervisors.