A Finnish research group from the University of Turku, University of Tampere and Aalto University has mapped the organisation of human conscious feelings and found them to cluster into five major categories: positive emotions, negative emotions, cognitive functions, somatic states, and illnesses.
New research helps to understand how illnesses and bodily states in general influence our subjective well-being.
The University of Turku will establish the Master’s Degree Programme in Software Engineering in co-operation with the University of Namibia next year. Simultaneously, the University strengthens its position on the growing education market of Africa.
A new study by researchers from the University of Turku, Finland and the University of Skövde, Sweden shows that people with more peace of mind in the waking state have more positive dreams, whereas those with more anxiety in the waking state have more negative dreams. This means that dream experiences, as revealed in recalled and reported dreams, may reflect a person’s mental health.
This year, the Elias Tillandz prize for the best scientific paper published in 2017 in BioCity Turku was awarded to two research groups. The prize was presented on Thursday, 23 August 2018.
The University of Turku was ranked among the 301–400 best universities in the Academic Ranking of World Universities this year. Simultaneously, the drop in the ranking of the University of Turku that had lasted for a few years changed course for a strong rise.
On Monday, 13 August, academics from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Tanzania visited the University of Turku. The visitors were part of the Southern African-Nordic Centre (SANORD) where the University of Turku was a founding member when the network was established in 2006. The international SANORD conference is organised in Finland for the first time on 15–17 August.
There will be nearly fifty open vacancies for fixed-term doctoral candidate positions at the University of Turku from 1 January 2019 onwards. The call for applications will be open 3–21 September 2018. This is already the sixth year for all the 16 doctoral programmes to open their call for applications simultaneously.
Researchers from the University of Turku, Finland, and the University of Palermo, Italy, studied the similarity of investment decisions in the financial market and how the investment strategies used by the investors influence the volatility of the markets by using an exceptionally large set of empirical data. The results help in understanding the operation of financial markets and shed light on the connection of earlier theories to the actual stock market.
The Taiwanese NTU Ranking has ranked the best 800 universities in the world. In the 2018 ranking, the University of Turku was placed 335th.
Humans have been capturing wild Asian elephants for more than 3,000 years for different purposes, and this still continues today despite the fact that the populations are declining. An international team of researchers has now analysed records of timber elephants in Myanmar to understand the effects of capture on the animals and their survival. The study shows that even years after their capture, wild-caught elephants’ mortality rate remains increased, and their average life expectancy is several years shorter compared to captive-born animals.