INVEST
News
18.10.2021
Transition to Retirement Increases the Amount of Time Grandparents Spend Caring for Their Grandchildren
According to a study published in Frontiers in Psychology, grandparents spend more time with their grandchildren after retirement than when...
13.10.2021
CCEA and KiVa antibullying program started to collaborate: Promoting change and improving implementation
KiVa antibullying program research group has started collaborating with CCEA company. CCEA is an expert in human-driven change. CCEA uses...
8.10.2021
Psychiatric Disorders in Teenage Years Associated with Social Exclusion in Later Life
Adolescents who had received a mental health disorder diagnosis were often excluded from the labour market and education as young...
Events
DPINVEST & INVESThub Workshop on interventions, evaluations and field experiments
26.10.2021 - 27.10.2021
Each year the thematic workshop will invite leading experts in the disciplines related to INVEST to present their work. The...
Workshop on Aggression
04.11.2021 - 06.11.2021
The 25th Workshop on Aggression will take place on 4th-6th November, 2021 in Turku, Finland, with the overarching theme “Prevention...
TCWR Friday Seminar
05.11.2021 - 05.11.2021
Elina Kilpi-Jakonen & Hye Won Kwon: The mental health benefits of speaking the origin-country language within immigrant families: the moderating role...
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
3-6 Senior Researchers in the faculty of Social Sciences for the period January 1 2022 – December 31 2025. Apply...