Kone funding for Museum Studies doctoral researcher

By Shikoh Shiraiwa

I am sincerely grateful to receive this generous grant to continue my PhD in Helsinki. I did not expect this at all for it took a few days to grasp the reality.

Shikoh's silhouette in the January snow
Shikoh’s silhouette in the January snow

No need to worry about the means of finance, and being able to focus on research is such a privileged position. With all the supports I received from the Finnish National Agency for Education, Kalevala Koru Cultural Foundation, and now the Kone Foundation, I cannot express enough how fortunate that is, more so the generosity of funding a foreign researcher. Continue reading “Kone funding for Museum Studies doctoral researcher”