Keyword: Faculty of Social Sciences

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.

The role of AI in medical decision-making elicits different reactions in people when compared with human doctors. A new study investigated the situations where the acceptance differs and why with stories that described medical cases.

The Ceremonial Conferment of Doctoral Degrees of all faculties of the University of Turku was celebrated on 15–16 May 2025. Altogether, 190 doctors and 10 honorary doctors were conferred their degrees in the Ceremonial Conferment.

A new imaging study by the Turku PET Centre in Finland showed that listening to favorite music affects the function of the brain’s opioid system.

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.