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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,...

Call for Papers for the upcoming conference Contemplating Qualitative Longitudinal Research. Methods, Theories, and Temporalities (10-11 June 2024 Helsinki, Finland) has been extended until 19 January 2024.

Norwegian project researchers Ingunn Marie Eriksen and Patrick Lie Andersen (NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University) discuss gender differences in young people's psychosocial driving in rural areas in Norway. The article The gendered district effect: psychosocial reasons why girls wish to leave their rural communities was published in Journal of Youth...

Our Swedish researchers, Maria Rönnlund and Aina Tollefsen (Umeå University) discuss the life paths and career choices of Swedish rural young adults in two new publications.

10.-11. June 2024 Helsinki, Finland

Historiatietoisuus rakentaa myös kulttuurien ja paikkojen tulevaisuutta ja esimerkiksi ilmastonmuutoksen ja Saamenmaan maankäytön kysymykset asettuivat nuorten puheissa osaksi historiallisia jatkumoita. Historia ei ole vain jotain taaksejäänyttä, kaukaista tai vierasta. Sen sijaan historia on kerrostunutta, läsnä olevaa, vaikuttavaa ja ajassa...

Our Finnish team is participating in Method Festival at Jyväskylä 1.9.2023. We will discuss qualitative longitudinal research with scholars from the same sphere. You are warmly welcomed to listen!

Two of our researchers Ingunn Marie Eriksen and Kaisa Vehkalahti have participated in podcasts, that you can listen to online! You can find Ingunn´s podcast interview about youth wellbeing, mental health issues and stress (in Norwegian) from Radio NRK , and Kaisa´s podcast interview about history of childhood (in Finnish) from YLE Areena

Helena Ristaniemi's dissertation "Here, it matters which family you are born into, it affects everything." The formation and meanings of historical consciousness in the lives of girls from the Finnish Sámi Homeland" shows that local history and culture affects young people's lives when making choices about their future. The longitudinal study...