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Arja Sääkslahti

New professor Arja Sääkslahti: The joy of physical activity in early childhood builds the best foundation for development

Arja Sääkslahti, newly appointed professor at the Ģ��ֱ��, explores the importance of physical activity in children’s development from multiple perspectives. Her research focuses on early childhood.

Timo Jaakkola

New professor Timo Jaakkola is seeking solutions to increase children’s physical activity - An extensive school-based intervention is being planned

Timo Jaakkola, a new professor at the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, is planning an extensive physical education intervention for schools.

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Researchers’ Night opens doors for schoolchildren to laboratories and secrets of science

Researchers’ Night opens doors for schoolchildren to laboratories and secrets of science

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Research news

Harri Parkkinen

Dissertation: Neutrino modeling in extreme conditions (Parkkinen)

Harri Parkkinen's a doctoral dissertation provides theoretical tools for analyzing neutrinos in other environments as well, for example in accelerator and reactor neutrino experiments.

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A recent study reveals the value of failed strategies in the development of enterprises and industries

A group of researchers from the Ģ��ֱ��, the University of Oxford and the Aalto University School of Business analysed Nokia’s strategic turning points. Their analysis reveals the surprising potential of failed and discarded strategies.

Dissertation: Structures and children's everyday life in early childhood education transitions (Harju)

For a child, moving from one day-care group or nursery to another is a major change in everyday life, while for the early childhood education and care system it is a practice that makes things possible.

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Dissertation press releases

Harri Parkkinen

Dissertation: Neutrino modeling in extreme conditions (Parkkinen)

Harri Parkkinen's a doctoral dissertation provides theoretical tools for analyzing neutrinos in other environments as well, for example in accelerator and reactor neutrino experiments.

Dissertation: Structures and children's everyday life in early childhood education transitions (Harju)

For a child, moving from one day-care group or nursery to another is a major change in everyday life, while for the early childhood education and care system it is a practice that makes things possible.

Väitöskirjatutkija Mikko Mäkinen

Dissertation: The effects of sulfate on Finnish salmonid fish (Mäkinen)

For the first time, Mikko Mäkinen experimentally examined in his doctoral dissertation examined the sulfate tolerance of Finnish fish species and produced essential and highly timely background information for water protection needs.

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Upcoming events

Join Start to Finnish – an online course on Finnish working life

Online course on Finnish working life

If Sexuality Were a Race, which Race would Heterosexuality Be?

Open Lecture: "If Sexuality were a race, which race would heterosexuality be? A feminist ethics of ubuntu conversation on the intersection of sexuality, gender, race and sexual exploitation"

Nanoseminar: Tomoya Imai

Small-angle scattering to study the dynamics of biomaterials

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Public examinations of doctoral dissertations

5.9.2025 MA (Educ.) Kaisa Harju (Faculty of Education and Psychology, Early Education)

MA (Educ.) Kaisa Harju defends her doctoral dissertation in early education "Tracing Children’s Transitions in Early Childhood Education and Care: A Relational-Spatial Perspective".

5.9.2025 FM Harri Parkkinen (Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Department of Physics)

FM Harri Parkkinen defends their doctoral dissertation “Quantum kinetic theory for coherently mixing neutrinos”.

5.9.2025 MSc Xilin Zhou (Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Department of Mathematics and Statistics)

MSc Xilin Zhou defends their doctoral dissertation “Homeomorphic Sobolev extensions and Sobolev spaces in stochastic differential equations”.

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