Influential research on young people and youth

We promote multidisciplinary youth research in Finland and internationally.

The Annual Conference of Youth Studies 2025

XXIII Annual Conference of Youth Studies is the leading multidisciplinary conference for youth studies in Finland. Next conference will take place on 13–14 November 2025. Call for Sessions is now open!

Research projects

Most of our research is carried out in research projects with varying duration, scope and funding.

CHAT-YOUTH – Crisis Help and Assistance for youth during challenging Times

Project produces information and facilitate stakeholders to information exchange and ethical reflection to improve the quality of online counselling chat services and to capacitate youth work in Europe.

News

21.5.2025 News

Call for Papers: Gender, Solidarity, and Inclusion in Youth Studies Symposium

25.4.2025 News

Requests for assesment to the Ethics Committee of Youth and Childhood Studies by 19 May 2025

24.4.2025 News

Call for Sessions: the Annual Conference of Youth Studies 2025

16.4.2025 News

Research article examines the objectives and methods of school youth work

26.3.2025 News

Competition for Youth Research Theses 2025

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Events

6.3.2025 – 16.6.2025

Competition for Youth Research Theses 2025

24.9.2025 – 25.9.2025 Åbo Akademi (Turku, Finland)

Gender, Solidarity, and Inclusion in Youth Studies Symposium

13.11.2025 – 14.11.2025 University of Tampere

Annual Conference of Youth Studies 2025

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Latest publications of our researchers

All research publications

2025 – Kekäläinen, T., Ahola, J., Reinilä, E., Savikangans, T., Kinnunen, M-L, Pitkänen, T. & Kokko, K.

Cumulative associations between health behaviours, mental well-being, and health over 30 years (Visit an external site. The link opens in a new tab.)

Annals of Medicine, Vol. 57, no. 1, 2479233.

2025 – Kiilakoski, T. & Kivijärvi, A. & Kauppinen, E.

It’s About Relations: Goals and Limitations of School-Based Youth Work in Finland (Visit an external site. The link opens in a new tab.)

Nordic Journal of Pedagogy and Critique, 11(2)

2025 – Helfer, A., Kataja, K., & Pitkänen, T.

When Despair Takes Over: Suicide Conversations in an Online Counseling Chat Service for Youth (Visit an external site. The link opens in a new tab.)

Child & Youth Services, 1–24.

Regular Data Collection

The regular data collections form a permanent area of the Finnish Youth Research Society producing quantitative and qualitative monitoring data on young people.

Latest publications of the Finnish Youth Research Society

All publications

2024 – Lauri Julkunen

Youth and changing rural regions in the Nordic countries. An overview of history and research priorities (Visit an external site. The link opens in a new tab.)

Electronic publication

2023 – Alix Helfer, Jakob Trane Ibsen, Viola Särkiluoto and Sinikka Aapola-Kari

Restricted Childhood, Interrupted Youth. Research observations on participation in education and leisure during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Nordic countries (Visit an external site. The link opens in a new tab.)

Electronic publication

2023 – Alix Helfer, Sinikka Aapola-Kari and Jakob Trane Ibsen (eds.)

Children and Young People’s Participation During the Corona Pandemic – Nordic Initiatives (Visit an external site. The link opens in a new tab.)

Electronic publication

Ethics Committee of Youth and Childhood Studies

The multidisciplinary Committee promotes ethical research by addressing special issues in childhood and youth research, promoting research training and participating in science policy discussion about research ethics.