Keyword: Cultural memory and social change

Leaders have been appointed for the five multidisciplinary themes of the Strategy of the University of Turku to develop and implement the University's multidisciplinary activities.

Human Diversity research consortium is launching a new seminar series this autumn. The first event is arranged on Wednesday, 25^th September 2024 at 10:00

New doctoral research explores how people from refugee backgrounds experience citizenship and how they navigate their everyday lives before and after their legal status is regularised.

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Authors are the focus of University Lecturer in Cultural History, Docent Maarit Leskelä-Kärki's work. A play based on her dissertation is currently performed at the Finnish National Theatre. 

Professor of Evolutionary Biology Virpi Lummaa from the University of Turku in Finland has received a major funding from the European Research Council ERC. Lummaa received the funding for a research project that focuses on how major societal changes in the past 300 years have influenced human kinship networks and how they, in turn, have influenced the evolutionary fitness of people in the 18th to 20th century Finland. Lummaa also investigates the same questions in Asian elephants, which have suffered from declines in population size during the past 50 years due to human influence.

Researchers from the University of Turku and the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology investigated the role of grandmothers in preventing childhood mortality from infectious diseases in 18th and 19th century Finland. According to the study, grandmothers decreased all-cause and cause-specific mortality of children.

The funding supports cross-disciplinary research in the University’s three profiling areas that focus on immune mediated diseases, the evolution of human diversity, and the design of sustainable materials.