Doctoral programme on Inequalities, Interventions and New Welfare State (DPInvest)

Doctoral programme on Inequalities, Interventions and New Welfare State (DPInvest) is part of the University of Turku Graduate School (UTUGS). DPInvest includes doctoral candidates from two faculties (ie. social sciences and medicine) and three disciplines (ie. child psychiatry, psychology and sociology).

DPInvest is part of research flaship project INVEST, which aims at increasing wellbeing of Finnish society during childhood, youth and early adulthood and preventing psychosocial risks compromising such development through innovative interventions. INVEST will implement and test various universal and targeted interventions to improve the efficiency of the current welfare state institutions at critical points of the life course. INVEST will provide an outline for more efficient, just and affordable model of the Finnish welfare state for years to come.

 

Next application period to the doctoral programme:

  • 3 March - 14 March, 2025 (right to study from 1 August 2025)  
    Note! The application forms closes at 4 pm local time in Finland. 

Contact:

The Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme:

Doctoral Education Specialist Kirsi Tammi

Decision on funded doctoral researcher positions (from 1.1.2025)

Selection for fixed-term funded doctoral researcher positions (autumn 2024):

Sumia Akter
Marco Balducci
Niko Eskelinen
Achyut Gautam
Waseem Haider
Alisa Jashari
Zahra Kafami Khorasani
Eija Lindroos
Jasmin Lostedt
Damian van der Neut
Nuru Nabwire Obwaka
Timo Teräsahjo
Bingkun Zhang
Xiao Zhang

In addition, two applicants were selected who didn't give permission to publish their names.