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Research

We produce multidisciplinary research on young people and youth.

Highlights of our international research

Planetary youth research

Planetary youth research is Research Professor Sofia Laine‘s approach to youth research, in which young people and youth are studied in relation to the carrying capacity of the planet.

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

CHAT-YOUTH will produce information and facilitate stakeholders to information exchange and ethical reflection to improve the quality of starting and ongoing non-profit OCCS and to capacitate youth work in Europe.

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YouthWiki

An online database in English describes the institutional structures, contexts and practices of youth policies in 34 European countries. The Finnish content is produced by the Finnish Youth Research Society.

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Latest publications of our researchers

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Themes

Finnish Youth Research Society carries out a wide range of research on both social divisions that shape young people’s lives and everyday experiences and practices of young people and adults who work with them. In addition to the established themes in youth studies, we highlight new topics related to the transformation of youth in the world.

Our research activities are based on multidisciplinarity, ethics and the combination of basic academic research and applied, youth policy-relevant research approaches. Research activities are carried out both nationally and internationally.

Youth work and youth policy

We produce critical information on the objectives, methods, impact and young people as clients of youth work.

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Youth cultures and leisure time

The analysis covers both the organised leisure activities offered to young people and the leisure activities that young people undertake on their own initiative outside the institutions.

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Well-being

We provide a wide range of information on young people’s lives and the social divisions that shape them, as well as on the everyday experiences and practices of young people and the adults who work with them.

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Inclusion, participation and democracy

Themes related to participation and democracy have been a central part of our research activities throughout the 2000s.

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Education, work and transitions

Issues related to education and work and transitions from youth to adulthood have been studied in several projects and in the framework of the Youth Barometer.

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Current research activities

Regular data collections are the cornerstone of the Finnish Youth Research Society research activities, characterised by their recurrence, permanence and long-time series. In terms of volume, most of our research is carried out in research projects of varying size and duration.

Regular data collection

Our permanent data collection tools include the Youth Barometer, the Children and Youth Leisure Survey, the online database YouthWiki, the qualitative follow-up study Youth in Time and the Yearbook on Living Conditions for Young People.

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Research projects

Each year, the Finnish Youth Research Society runs around 10-20 research projects, varying in theme, funding and duration.

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