Organizing committee

 

Iro Särkkä is a Doctoral Education Planning Officer in Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki. She is responsible for managing and coordinating the Annual Conference together with the Conference Coordination Committee. 

 

 

Emma Villman is a Doctoral Student in the Doctoral Programme of Social Sciences, at the Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy. Her research focuses on release from prison and desistance from crime.

 

 

Nanne Isokuortti is a Doctoral Student in the Doctoral Programme of Social Sciences in the discipline of Social Work. Her doctoral research comprises a process evaluation of the Systemic Practice Model for child protective services.

 

 

Aasa Karimo is a Doctoral Student in the Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal and Regional Change in the discipline of Political Science, University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on power and climate beliefs in national climate policy networks.

 

 

Bradley Reynolds is a Doctoral Student in the Doctoral  Programme in Political, Societal and Regional Change in the discipline of Political History. His doctoral research focuses on changing expectations and perceptions for European security in Finland and Russia in the early 1990’s. This is observed through the smaller liminal context of planning for a peacekeeping operation in Nagorno-Karabakh by the Conference of Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). 

 

 

Merja Kiiskinen is a Doctoral Student in the Doctoral Programme of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki. Her research topic is social welfare and its manifestation in a context of different epistemologies.  

 

Joel Kilpi is a Doctoral Student in the Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal and Regional Change in the discipline of Economic and Social History, University of Helsinki. His research addresses the class formation of Finnish American miners of Butte, Montana in the early twentieth century from the perspectives of ethnicity and mobility of labor.

 

Viivi Eskelinen is a Doctoral Student in the Doctoral Programme of Social Sciences in the discipline of Social Psychology. Her research focuses on cross-cultural comparisons of the role of religiosity in intergroup relations among national majorities in Finland, Germany, Norway and Australia.

Jennifer de Paola is a Doctoral Student in the Doctoral Programme of Social Sciences in the discipline of Social Psychology. Her research uses Social Representations Theory (SRT) as a theoretical framework to capture shared common-sense conceptions of happiness in Finland.