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Registration for the conference Contemplating Qualitative Longitudinal Research: temporalities, theories and methods on 10-11 June 2024 in Helsinki has closed.

Our researcher Helena Ristaniemi will present her work with other young researchers in the Spring seminar Sukupuolentutkimuksen kevätseminaari: viime vuosien satoa on 8.5.2024 at Oulu; University of Oulu (only in Finnish). Registration is open until 30.4.2024 Welcome to participate on site or Zoom!

We are delighted to announce that Longitudinal Methods in Youth Research: Understanding Young Lives Across Time and Space book launch event will take place as part of our conference on Monday 10th June.

Postdoctoral Researcher Lauri Julkunen's study Youth and changing rural regions in the Nordic countries: an overview of history and research priorities summarises previous research and historical knowledge on rural youth across four Nordic countries, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark from the early 20th century to the 2020s.

The Future of Nordic Youth in Rural Regions seeks to examine how rural young people envision the future of their regions; what kinds of dreams, hopes, worries, and possible future solutions they envision. For this purpose the project organizes 16 workshops in the four participating countries.The series of workshops was started this week in Finland!...

We have now published the preliminary programme for the conference. You can view it here. However, this program does not yet include details about individual presentations in parallel sessions. The finalized programme will be published as soon as possible.

Postdoctoral Researcher Lauri Julkunen's study Youth and changing rural regions in the Nordic countries: an overview of history and research priorities summarises previous research and historical knowledge on rural youth across four Nordic countries, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark from the early 20th century to the 2020s.

The Call for Proposals has now closed. We can already see that this is going to be a great and diverse conference! We will process the abstracts as soon as possible and we will inform the applicants about the decisions shortly. Registration for the event is now open and all participants can sign up.

Workshop in the 7th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Helsinki University 12 January 2024

In their new publication Assembling places, technologies and young people – becoming rural youth with vehicles and digital technologies in Finland Finnish researchers Ville Pöysä and Helena Ristaniemi (University of Jyväskylä) delve into the lives of young people in rural Finland. The article discusses the meanings of different technologies,...