Call for applications – INVEST Research Center and Flagship offers support for researchers fled from Ukraine

Updated 12.6.2024

University of Turku INVEST Research Center and Flagship has opened a call for grant applications for scientific research related to sociology, psychology, social policy, child psychiatry, social work, statistics, economics and/or epidemiology. The call is open to researchers (all career stages) who have been displaced by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and who are seeking a temporary assignment to continue research outside Ukraine.

INVEST – Inequalities, Interventions and a New Welfare State – is a joint research centre and Finnish research flagship that operates under the Faculties of Medicine and Social Sciences at the University of Turku (UTU) and at the Welfare State Research and Reform unit at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). INVEST aims at providing a new model for the welfare states that is more equal, better targeted to problem groups, more anticipatory as well as economically and socially sustainable. Based on cutting-edge research on the conditions and mechanisms involved at different periods of development, INVEST will evaluate and develop various universal and targeted interventions to improve the efficiency of the current welfare state institutions at critical points of the early life course.

We are currently looking for one grant researcher who will be working on a unique study conducted by the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry of the University of Turku. The study examines the effects of the Russo-Ukrainian War on child and adolescent mental health. The cross-sectional study examines mental health problems of children and adolescent in Ukraine during the Russian invasion of Ukraine since 2014 extending the scope of the research from the invasion of Crimea to the present-day war zone in Ukraine. It is the largest epidemiological study on this topic using standardised measures. The international study group is led by professor André Sourander from the University of Turku and the group consists of several high-level researchers. The research group is also developing a psycho-social mental health intervention for Ukrainian families on how to relieve anxiety and stress of children during the war.

The grant recipient will be working in the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry in the University of Turku under the supervision of prof. André Sourander.

  • Duration of the grant: 3–12 months
  • Amount of the grant: 1970 €/month to doctoral researchers, 2500 €/month to post-doctoral researchers, and 3400 €/month to senior researchers.
  • Application period: continuous open call until the grant researcher has been selected (applications are processed in the order of submission).

Please submit your application online at https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/163811B9711011A5

Please include a personal statement containing a description of your scientific background and your research interests. Please also attach a short research plan (1–2 pages), CV, and a list of publications to your application.

For further information about the research project, please contact professor André Sourander and further information about the INVEST grant, please contact INVEST Project Manager Anu Lyytinen, anu.lyytinen@utu.fi.