INVEST Research Flagship Centre will continue as a permanent department in the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Turku after 2026. The solution will allow for the development and expansion of INVEST also in the future.
The KiVa antibullying program has been launched in Colombia. All together representatives of over 140 schools took part in the launching event.
Call for applications – INVEST Research Flagship Centre offers support for researchers fled from Ukraine.
Researchers have developed a new interactive tool to view inequality indicators. It allows journalists, policymakers, researchers, and data scientists to visually explore and understand inequalities more precisely than ever.
Social relationships are formed unequally according to class background even in relatively egalitarian Finland, as shown in Minna Tuominen's doctoral research. Particularly trust, which is strongly linked to well-being, varies by social class, accumulating more among the highly educated and better-off classes. Especially vulnerable are those in lower education and income groups, as well as immigrants, who often rely on relatively fewer social relationships.
A new study reveals that sex differences in academic strengths are found throughout the world and girls’ relative advantage in reading and boys’ in science is largest in gender-equal countries.
The new project will investigate the role of housing and longitudinal careers as determinants of later and forgone parenthood in the Nordic countries.
A study conducted at the University of Turku shows that investment by maternal grandmothers can improve the well-being of grandchildren who have faced adversities in life. The positive effects can last well into adulthood.
The higher education institutions in Turku, together with other Finnish and Nordic partners in Brussels, organised a joint event The Role of Higher Education Institutions in Ensuring the EU's Competitiveness and Resilience. The event took place in Brussels during the Research and Innovation Week launched by the European Commission.
The project will investigate the long-term impact of student employment on the lives of university students.