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News
17.9.2021
Christina Salmivalli was awarded the William Thierry Preyer Award for Excellence in Research on Human Development
The European Association of Developmental Psychology gives every two years The William Thierry Preyer Award for Excellence in Research on...
16.9.2021
INVEST’s three research consortia were granted Strategic Research Council funding
The Strategic Research Council (SRC), established within the Academy of Finland, funds high-quality research with great societal relevance and impact...
10.9.2021
Families’ long-distance moves within countries can increase the risk of school drop out
It is often assumed that families move to improve their economic and social prospects, and that these additional resources can...
Events
Workshop: Sibling Fixed Effects, part 1
12.10.2021 - 12.10.2021
This workshop provides an introduction to fixed effects models with a focus on sibling fixed effects. In these models, one...
Workshop: Sibling Fixed Effects, part 2
14.10.2021 - 14.10.2021
This workshop provides an introduction to fixed effects models with a focus on sibling fixed effects. In these models, one...
DPINVEST Seminar
15.10.2021 - 15.10.2021
More info coming soon. Seminar is for the Doctoral Students of INVEST Doctoral Programme.
Most of our events are in Finnish, you can find the events on the Finnish page
Our Research
Welfare Research and Innovation Ecosystem
The INVEST ecosystem brings together the efforts of 200 researchers and advances cross-disciplinary research. It forms an international collaboration platform...
Research Themes
The research area of the INVEST Flagship covers the study fields of sociology, social policy, psychology, child psychiatry, social work,...
Novel Research and Impact Infrastructures
Excellent, globally unique data sources and novel data infrastructure are the backbone of the world-class research that is being conducted...
Interventions
KiVa® Antibullying programme
Kiva School® is an anti-bullying programme developed at the University of Turku. KiVa aims to prevent bullying. Creating an anti-bullying...
Voimaperheet® (Strongest Families)
Voimaperheet is an intervention project of the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry, University of Turku. We develop, evaluate and implement...
Opintokamu® (Studypal)
Opintokamu® – meaning studypal – is an entity developed for high schools and vocational schools. It aims to develop students’...
Outputs
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Join the INVEST ecosystem
INVEST is a research and social innovation ecosystem and a collaboration platform that brings together researchers, public organisations, third sector...
INVEST Fellowship Programme
What is an INVEST fellowship? INVEST fellowships are 1-3 (or up to 6) months visits to the flagship to collaborate...
Vacancies
Postdoctoral Researcher / Senior Researcher in Psychology for the period November 1, 2021 – October 31, 2024. Apply by 30.9.2021...