A deep understanding of the contexts of heritage and environments, a critical approach that questions and deconstructs normative meanings, and new theoretical, conceptual and methodological openings are central to research in this area.
Research in this area focuses on the forms and meanings of games, the interpretation of games, competitive gaming, the welfare effects of gaming and problem gambling.
MA (Educ.) Nina Heräjärvi defends her doctoral dissertation in subject "Developing quality of life implementation feedback model to improve quality of life for Finnish young adults with severe physical disabilities"
MA (Educational leadership) Saswati Chaudhuri defends her doctoral dissertation in subject "Teachers' visual focus of attention and related factors in Grade 1 classroom: Teacher stress, students' basic academic skills and teacher-student relationships".