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Mentorointitapaaminen tuo yhteen tutkijoita monitieteisesti

Greetings from JYU.Well post doc peer-mentoring program

Program provides additional support for their academic careers, interdisciplinary research and the development of the researcher identity.

Business Networking Day had over 540 participants

The Business Networking Day event was organised for the third time and larger than ever before. Business Networking Day is a networking event organised by three JYU faculties, which brings together students, companies, stakeholders and researchers.

Adolescents resent commercial profiling based on voice data, whereas the monitoring of online behaviour is perceived as normal targeted advertising

Most adolescents found online targeted advertisements based on voice data as more privacy-invasive than those based on their previous online activity.

Mika Lähteenmäki appointed the dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences from 1 January 2024

Mika Lähteenmäki appointed the dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences from 1 January 2024

Low self-regulation in smartphone use is connected to online shopping addiction

Exploring the co-effects of problems with self-regulation and smartphone use on shopping addiction.

03.11.2023: Russian speakers’ acculturation in Finland and Latvia: the role of language and news media engagement (Khalimzoda)

Russian speakers in Latvia and Finland, looking at the role of news media engagement

Sakari Taipale

Online services in social and health care: “Talk about the digital leap have been a disservice to older people”

After a certain age, even someone with good skills may have trouble using digital services, says Professor Sakari Taipale.

Usein vasta velkaantuminen herättää huomaamaan shoppailuriippuvuuden. (Mostphotos, Andrey Popov)

Low self-regulation in smartphone use is connected to online shopping addiction

A recent research article from a joint study by the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä and the Department of Education at the University of Helsinki is among the first peer-reviewed scientific publications...

Significant ERC funding for two projects at the University of Jyväskylä: New innovations expected in molecular biology and the ethics of land use

Teea Kortetmäki and Elina Laanto received highly competitive five-year ERC Starting Grants from the European Research Council. The awarded sum for both projects amounts to almost 1.5 million euros.

Mikko Nurmi tutki huippubasistien luovuutta jazzimprovisaatioissa.

2.9.2023: Tempo and the frequency of chord changes have little effect on the creativity of eminent jazz bassists (Nurmi)

MA Mikko Nurmi investigated creativity in the bass lines of two very prominent jazz bassists.

Ghulam Abbas Khushik

2.9.2023: How do the Common European Framework levels differ in terms of linguistic features? Analysing English language learners’ written corpora by using Natural Language Processing tools (Khushik)

The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) was established by the Council of Europe to enhance transparency in European language education (CoE, 2001).

Marcus Petz, kuvaaja Suvituulia Huotari

1.9.2023: From Cryptocurrency to a Resilient Community (Petz)

Doctoral research shows that local currencies can strengthen our communities, bringing forward-resilience for ecological sustainability, rural renewal, active aging, and social inclusion.