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Robots As Rescuers Are Not Allowed To Make Mistakes

Do we want robots to save as many people as possible or the one who most deserves to be saved?

Young People’s Climate Anxiety Linked To Action Mitigating Environmental Change

A study compared emotions and actions evoked by climate change among young people aged 23 on average in 28 countries.

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Uncertainty And Lifestyle Are Reasons To Postpone Having Children In Finland

Since 2010, fertility has been sharply declining in Finland, but reasons for this decline are poorly understood. How Finns explain their decisions to postpone or even not to have (more) children during fertility decline?

ERC Awards Five-Year Grant For Research On The Construction Of Scientific Knowledge

In her project ‘Medical Electricity, Embodied Experiences, and Knowledge Construction in Europe and the Atlantic World, c.1740–1840’, Postdoctoral Researcher Soile Ylivuori investigates the construction of scientific knowledge in 18th-century Europe and the Atlantic world.

Increasing Inequality Affects Wellbeing At School

An extensive study carried out in 2006–2019, encompassing nearly one million pupils and students, looked for reasons for both burnout and wellbeing.

Young People’s Climate Anxiety Linked to Action Mitigating Environmental Change

In the study Climate anxiety, pro-environmental action and wellbeing: antecedents and outcomes of negative emotional responses to climate change in 28 countries, anxiety and concern about climate change among young people was predictably high, particularly in Finland, but the researchers found that the action taken to curb and tackle climate change was strong in Finland at the same time.

Researchers Create a Situation Room Where Cities Can Practise Managing Recurring Environmental Crises

How should we prepare for future environmental crises? The LONGRISK project is organising exercises for the cities of Helsinki, Tampere and Kotka.

ERC Awards Five-Year Grant for Research on the Construction of Scientific Knowledge

In her project ‘Medical Electricity, Embodied Experiences, and Knowledge Construction in Europe and the Atlantic World, c.1740–1840’, Postdoctoral Researcher Soile Ylivuori investigates the construction of scientific knowledge in 18th-century Europe and the Atlantic world.