Over 9 million euros for research in social sciences and humanities from the Research Council of Finland
The Research Council of Finland’s (RCF) Scientific Council for Social Sciences and Humanities has decided on funding for 35 new Academy Research Fellows and 48 new Academy Projects, which involve a total of 71 subprojects. The total funding comes to around 23 million euros for Academy Research Fellowships and around 36 million euros for Academy Projects.
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Postdoctoral Researcher Essi Jouhki's project explores the role of imagination in studying the lived experience of childhood. Focusing on childhood memories in post-war Finland and Britain, the project explores how imaginative play reflects children's relationship with their changing multisensory environment.
Postdoctoral Researcher Alessandro Ansani's project deepens audiovisual cross-modal correspondences (CCs), which are associations between different sensory modalities, such as sight and sound. This topic was chosen to build on Ansani's previous research on audiovisual perception, aiming to better understand how our brains link sensory inputs.
Postdoctoral Researcher Miia Huttunen's research project, carried out at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, investigates the critical role of cultural heritage protection during and after armed conflicts. It explores the institutional controversies involved in establishing international norms for heritage protection through the lens of the UN, and their practical implementation in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars and the conflict in Mali.
Postdoctoral Researcher Alexandra Chadwick's project investigates changing concepts of pride in 17th and 18th-century Britain and France. Pride has undergone a remarkable revolution, transforming from a vice to a virtue: from a deadly sin to a positive sense of self-worth, associated with progressive political movements and self-respect. But how and why did this transformation come about? To answer that question, the project examines pivotal times and places in the history of the concept of pride.
Postdoctoral Researcher Anu Tourunen's research examines how individuals synchronize nonverbally through autonomic nervous system (ANS) responses, movements, and facial expressions. It explores how traits, relationship types, and situational factors influence synchrony.
Postdoctoral Researcher Hannele Pitkänen's project examines ethnographically the multifaceted role of policies and practices of student assessment in guidance counselling within Finnish comprehensive education. Unlike traditional views that focus on assessment as merely indicating learning performance or supporting learning process, AssemblEd argues that assessment has a profound capacity to influence students' self-understanding and their future orientations.
The RCF’s Academy Research Fellowship funding is intended for early-career researchers on a fast career track who have formed international networks and who are conducting scientifically high-quality and high-impact research that contributes to scientific renewal. The Scientific Council made the Academy Research Fellowship decisions taking into account the diversity of methods and the promotion of international cooperation.
Nine new Academy Projects
The RCF granted funding to 9 Academy projects and 11 researchers.
The Academy Projects:
Assistant Professor Martin Hartmann, Musical Sharing In Copresent Time And Space, 500 000 €
Senior Lecturer Kaisa Vehkalahti, Sustainable Rural Futures: Qualitative longitudinal study of rural young people in the 21st century, 500 000 €
Associate Professor Marjo Siltaoja 344 550 € and Assistant Professor Ari Kuismin 331 754 €, Organizational politics and practices of sunset enterprising
Senior Lecturer Eija Räikkönen, Prior Knowledge and Skills in Online Credibility Evaluation: Individual Differences and Developmental Trajectories Among Upper Secondary School Students, 337 984 €. The project is led by University of Tampere (PI Associate Professor Carita Kiili).
Professor Kaija Collin, Towards Sustainability of multi-generational learning at work, 599 990 €
Associate professor Tiina Parviainen, Neurodevelopmental trajectories underlying cognitive development in children, 600 000 €
Professor Eija Pakarinen 500 000 € and Professor Noona Kiuru 500 000 €, Underlying Mechanisms of Successful Student Adaptation in Educational Transitions during Adolescence
Professor Mirja Tarnanen, Learning, Engaging, Participating: Exploring Newly Arrived Migrant Students' Pathways in Education and Society, 499 765 €. The project is led by University of Tampere (PI professor Mervi Kaukko).
Senior Lecturer Mari Honko, The impact of language proficiency requirements and language testing on the integration of adult migrants in Finland, 582 616 €.
Academy Project Funding is designed to promote the quality of research, scientific impact as well as scientific renewal and diversity.
