The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Helsinki is Finland’s most diverse faculty in terms of the organisation and ...

Alisa Oesch, who has lived both in Scotland and in Finland, understands the struggles of finding work in a country where language can be an obstacle. We sat down with Alisa and discussed the writing ...

The museum will be operating on a special holiday schedule over the Christmas and New Year period. The Christmas and New Year holidays bring changes to the museum’s opening hours. Please check the ...

You are warmly invited to our Learning, Culture and Interventions (LECI) expert group research seminar on Friday 14th of November 2025, at 10.15-11.45 with a theme: “A Finnish Perspective on Bildung ...

Frank Hindriks from University of Groningen visited Helsinki in December. On 11 December 2025, Professor Frank Hindriks from University of Groningen delivered a lecture titled The Open Society in the ...

HSSH researchers Jouni Tuominen and Matti Pohjonen recently visited South Africa as part of the ongoing research collaboration between the University of Helsinki’s Helsinki Institute for Social ...

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Juho Pääkkönen’s dissertation explores how social scientists build credibility for the use of digital big data and what this reveals about the evolving conditions of research. HSSH Project Planner ...

The fully booked HSSH Slow Science Day invited the university community to pause, reflect and rethink the fast rhythms of academic life. The HSSH Slow Science Day: Multimodal dialogues on unhurried ...

About 70 participants from inside and outside Helsinki (and Finland) will come together next week, so you are all very welcome to come and listen to the different sessions throughout the three days of ...

A study conducted at the University of Helsinki, Finland set out to determine how 13 dog breeds performed in various cognitive tests. With a sample size of over 1,000 dogs, the researchers found ...

An experimental study coordinated by the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) showed, for the first time in the world, that the immune system of daycare children of three to five years improved ...