|
In the picture:
Front row, from right:
Sinikka Aapola and Elina Ruuskanen.
Back row, from right:
Saara Tuomaala and Minna Kelhä
Suomeksi |
Description of the
research programme
The multidisliplinary
research programme "Many Routes to
Adulthood -
Changing Cultural Age Orders in Finland" received funding from
the
University of Helsinki research funds in
December 2004.
The research programme is led by Docent Sinikka Aapola,
Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki.
The other two researchers who work in the project are
Saara Tuomaala from the Department of History and Minna Kelhä from
the Department of Education. Elina Ruuskanen conducts her Master's
thesis in the project.
Subprojects
The research programme consists of three inter-
connected research projects. There are theoretical, methodological and
empirical links between the projects.
Docent Sinikka Aapola's own current research project
is called "Young People Transgressing
Cultural Age Orders" and her
funding comes from the Finnish
Youth Research Network. Her data consists of media discourses of
age
as well as young people's life-stories. Her research project is
associated with a larger research program "15- to 19-year-olds in the
Finnish Society", funded by the Finnish Youth Research Network.
PhD Saara Tuomaala's postdoctoral research project is called "Rural
Young People's Age-Related Transitions in Finland, 1920-1940".
Her
research project has started in 2005.
MEd Minna Kelhä's doctoral research project is called "Motherhood
- At What Age? Motherhood in Cultural Age Orders". She has
started her
project in 2004.
Elina Ruuskanen conducts her Master's thesis on young people who have
made early transitions to work life.
Recent Publications in
English:
Aapola, Sinikka - Gonick,
Marnina - Harris, Anita (2004):
Young Femininity: Girlhood, Power and Social Change.
Palgrave, Houndmills and New York.
Aapola, Sinikka (2002):
Exploring Dimensions of Age in Young People's Lives. A Discourse
Analytical Approach. Time & Society vol 11 (2/3): 295-314.
Tuomaala, Saara (2004):
“How did a shepherd´s life story become a patriotic song?
Narrating past rural childhood of the 1920s and 1930s in Finland”. In:
Vainio-Korhonen, Kirsi (ed.), History and Change. SKS, Helsinki.
|
|
