News from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

The Strategic Research Council (SRC) established within the Research Council of Finland has granted a total of 29 million euros for research supporting economic growth and the future of work.

A team of researchers at the University of Jyväskylä has developed and tested a new virtual reality (VR) training task designed to help stroke survivors living with visuospatial neglect.

A new international study led by the University of Jyväskylä analysed the emotional content of 176 national anthems.

The University of Jyväskylä contributes to a significant Nordic project in developing a digital learning game to support reading and writing in the Sámi languages.

EU-funded JUSTMIG project has published a policy brief reporting that unions push back against recent policy changes which undermine the labour and social rights of migrant workers in Finland.

A group of researchers from the University of Jyväskylä, the University of Oxford and the Aalto University School of Business analysed Nokia’s strategic turning points. Their analysis reveals the surprising potential of failed and discarded strategies.

MA Jarkko Keränen’s PhD dissertation argues that sign language is inherently multisensory and that it can depict meaning multisensorially.

The University of Jyväskylä received € 1.7 million in funding in Business Finland's new Rise to the Challenge pilot call.

Vilja Levonius’s doctoral dissertation examines how the use of social media as a professional tool in old age services transforms care and its practices, and how it builds empathy by communicative means.

In his doctoral dissertation, Tuomo-Paavo Salokas examines how Roman textbooks of rhetoric influenced the formation of Western political theory.

MA Dukkeum Sun’s dissertation investigates the identity and agency of young migrant learners whose everyday lives are shaped by multilingualism.

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