Keyword: INVEST Research Flagship Centre

In more gender-equal countries, girls tend to avoid natural and engineering sciences more than girls in countries with lower levels of gender equality, according to a doctoral dissertation by M.A. Marco Balducci at the University of Turku. Balducci argues that in more gender-equal societies, individual preferences may have an even stronger influence on educational choices than in less equal societies.

An international research collaboration used AI as research participants and discovered that knowledge-enhanced large language models are able to critically assess forensic expert testimonies.

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.

Interdisciplinarity is at the heart of researcher Marie Pier Larose's work, both at the INVEST Research Flagship Centre and at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies. Her work combines developmental psychiatry, behaviour genetics, and public health research.

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.