Research Council of Finland awards funding for 19 new Academy Research Fellows and Academy Projects in social sciences and humanities

The Research Council of Finland’s Scientific Council for Social Sciences and Humanities selected 35 researchers to receive an Academy Research Fellowship and 48 projects to get Academy Project Funding. The new Academy Projects are composed of 71 subprojects.

The total funding is around €23 million for Academy Research Fellowships and around €36 million for Academy Projects. The funding period in the Academy Research Fellowship and Academy Project funding schemes is four years. 

In this round, the applicant success rate was around 10% in Academy Research Fellowships and 12% in Academy Projects. 

New Academy Research Fellows at Tampere University

Usva Friman: Exploring New Dimensions of Game Cultural Agency: From Marginalisation to Empowerment (ENDGAME), €693,915. See the funding decision for details on Usva Friman’s research.

Angel Iglesias Ortiz: Challenging the Continuum of Border Violence: Experiences of Mobility as Politicised Agency and Everyday Peace, €416,500. See the funding decision for details on Angel Iglesias Ortiz’s research.

Julia Katila: Controversies of touch in close relationships: the interrelation to negative and positive affect, €579,235. See the funding decision for details on Julia Katila’s research.

Íris Santos: Strategizing the SDGs – International organisations and the global governance of education, €354,503. See the funding decision for details on Íris Santos’ research.

Leena Vastapuu: HomeFront: Feminist analysis of the 'home' as a site of militarisation in Finland, €706,111. See the funding decision for details on Leena Vastapuu’s research.

New Academy Projects at Tampere University

Marja Jalava: Making the Modern ‘Meat Complex': The Co-production of Humans and Livestock in Finnish Agricultural Modernization, c. 1880s–1960s, €599,994. See the funding decision for details on Marja Jalava’s research.

Mikko Joronen: Global Palestine: Frontier Geographies of a Region in Flux, €599,597. See the funding decision for details on Mikko Joronen’s research. 

Tuula Juvonen: Picture Me. Presenting queer visual history, €484,914. See the funding decision for details on Tuula Juvonen’s research.

Mervi Kaukko: Learning, Engaging, Participating: Exploring Newly Arrived Migrant Students' Pathways in Education and Society – PATHWAYS, €499,765. See the funding decision for details on Mervi Kaukko’s research as the coordinator of a research consortium.  

Carita Kiili: Prior Knowledge and Skills in Online Credibility Evaluation: Individual Differences and Developmental Trajectories Among Upper Secondary School Students, €450,210. See the funding decision for details on Carita Kiili’s research as the coordinator of a research consortium. 

Matias Laine: Accounting, biodiversity and firm decision-making (AccBiD), €499,501. See the funding decision for details on Matias Laine’s research as the coordinator of a research consortium.

Hannele Mäkelä: Sustainable shipping in the Arctic (SHARC), €599,635. See the funding decision for details on Hannele Mäkelä’s research.

Jutta Pulkki: Care system shocks and their consequences on the use of healthcare services among older people in Finland, €599,612. See the funding decision for details on Jutta Pulkki’s research.

Okko Räsänen: Linking Age-Dependent Changes in Caregiver Speech to Infant Language Development (LINKAGE-SPEECH), €597,973. See the funding decision for details on Okko Räsänen’s research.

Kaisu Rättyä: Growing into Literature - Advancing Theories and Practices in Literature Education, €332,802. See the funding decision for details on Kaisu Rättyä’s research as the coordinator of a research consortium.

Rune Saugmann Andersen: U-KNOW: Understanding International Knowledge Practice and Open Source Images, €600,000. See the funding decision for details on Rune Saugmann Andersen’s research.

Melisa Stevanovic: Intervening in trouble at work: Navigating power, threat, and delicacy in the shadows of social interaction ideals, €500 000. See the funding decision for details on Melisa Stevanovic’s research as the coordinator of a research consortium.

Sanna Tuurnas: Integration of rural communities into public-service delivery: Navigating Power Dynamics, Reciprocity, and Accountability in community co-production, €499,999. See the funding decision for details on Sanna Tuurnas’ research as the coordinator of a research consortium.

Mari-Pauliina Vainikainen: Exploring the Impact of School-Level Decision-Making on the Outcomes of Learning Support and Special Education in Finland, €500,000 as a partner in a consortium coordinated by the University of Helsinki. See the funding decision for details on Mari-Pauliina Vainikainen’s research.
 

To read more, see the Research Council of Finland’s press release.