VASTUU-tutkijakoulun opiskelijavalinta

Tutkijakoulun johtokunta on kokouksessaan 27.11.2009 päättänyt seuraavista opiskelijavalinnoista.

HAKIJA	2010	2011	2012	2013
Berlin, Jenni	-	12 kk	12 kk	12 kk
Hämäläinen, Hans	-	12 kk	12 kk	12 kk
Isola, Anna-Maria	9 kk	-	-	-
Kainu, Markus	12 kk	12 kk	-	-
Kashaga, Frateline Mlashani	6 kk	6 kk	12 kk	12 kk
Könönen, Jukka	12 kk	-	12 kk	-
Majamaa, Karoliina	6 kk	6 kk	-	-
Määttä, Anne	3 kk	12 kk	-	-
Perkiö, Mikko	12 kk	-	-	-
Rasinkangas, Jarkko	12 kk	-	-	-
Saukko, Anu Emilia	6 kk	12 kk	12 kk	6 kk
Tanskanen, Antti	6 kk	12 kk	6 kk	-
Van Aerschot, Lina	-	-	12 kk	12 kk
Viitasalo, Niina	-	12 kk	12 kk	12 kk
Ylikännö, Minna	12 kk	-	-	-
YHT.	8 v	8 v	7½ v	5½ v

Jaettavana yhteensä 384 kk (32 vuotta)
Jäljellä 36 kk (3 vuotta)

VARASIJAT
Pekkarinen
Edwin
Awolin

B-PAIKAT
Toivo
Awolin
Edwin
Pekkarinen
Sandberg
Bishwakarma
Kalalahti
Kuronen
Mudi-Okorodudu, Cristal
Pirskanen
Savolainen
Siziba
Weckström
Tafor

KAHDEKSAN NELIVUOTISTA SOSIAALIPOLITIIKAN TUTKIJAKOULUTUSPAIKKAA HAETTAVANA

Valtakunnallinen sosiaalipolitiikan tutkijakoulu VASTUU ilmoittaa haettavaksi kahdeksan tutkijakoulupaikkaa (Suomen Akatemian nelivuotisella rahoituksella) 1.1.2010 alkaen.

Hakuaika päättyy 31.8.2009. Hakemuksen voi jättää sekä englannin että suomen kielellä. Hakijoiden arvioinnissa keskeisiä kriteerejä ovat aikaisempi opiskelumenestys, julkaisut ja tutkimussuunnitelma.

Hakijoiden tulee olla vähintään maisterin tutkinnon suorittaneita. Tutkimussuunnitelman tulee olla sosiaalipolitiikan alalta ja liittyä VASTUU-tutkijakoulun profiilimäärittelyyn (Tutkijakouluhakemuksen luku 2.6, ks. alla). Kouluun voidaan valita myös lyhyemmäksi kuin nelivuotiskaudeksi jos valmistumisen arvioidaan tapahtuvan nopeammin. Hyväksytyt arvioidaan kauden keskivaiheessa, ja jos tutkimussuunnitelmaa ei ole seurattu kausi voidaan katkaista. Haussa käytetään refereemenettelyä.

Palkka on Suomen Akatemian määrittämä ja on tällä hetkellä 1880 €/kk. Vaadittavat hakuasiakirjat: tutkimussuunnitelma, portfolio (CV+julkaisuluettelo). Mikäli hakija haluaa lyhyempää tutkimuskautta tai aloittaa myöhemmin kuin 1.1.2010, se on ilmoitettava hakemuksessa.

Tutkijakoulussa ovat mukana kaikki maan sosiaali- ja yhteiskuntapolitiikan oppiaineet ja sitä koordinoi Helsingin yliopiston Yhteiskuntapolitiikan laitos (vuoden 2010 alusta yhteiskuntapolitiikan osasto).

Hakuilmoitus liitteineen löytyy osoitteesta
www.soc.utu.fi/projektit/sosiaalipolitiikka/sospolnet/index.php

Lisätietoja J.P.Roosilta (j.p.roos@helsinki.fi) ja Veli-Matti Ritakalliolta (vemari@utu.fi).

Hakemusten on oltava perillä 31.8.2009 klo 18 mennessä joko postitse Yhteiskuntapolitiikan laitoksella (Snellmaninkatu 10, JP 18, 00014 Helsingin yliopisto) tai sähköisesti osoitteella j.p.roos@helsinki.fi.

EIGHT FOUR-YEAR PhD STUDENT POSITIONS IN SOCIAL POLICY

The Finnish Graduate school in Social policy announces eight PhD positions (financed by the Academy of Finland) beginning from Jan 1st, 2010. The deadline for applications is 31.8.2009. The criteria for filling the positions are: previous successful studies, publications, research plan (in social policy, according to the profile of the VASTUU graduate school, section 2.6. in the application, see below). The candidates should have a completed MA.

Shorter than 4-year appointments are possible if the applicant can be expected to finish his/her studies in a shorter time. There will be a midterm evaluation of the applicants and in case of major deviations from research plan, the appointment may be cut short. The applicants will be evaluated using referees.

The pay is determined by the Academy of Finland and is presently about 1880 €/month.

The required application documents are: a research plan, Portfolio (CV and list of publications). Foreign students who are not students in Finnish universities should present certified documents concerning their study certificates.

All Finnish university departments of Social Policy are members of the graduate school and it is coordinated by the Department of Social and Public Policy at the University of Helsinki. There are no fees for University studies in Finland. The foreign applicants should indicate in which Finnish university they wish to pursue their studies. They should also indicate the time period for which they wish to apply the position (it may be shorter than four years and start later than Jan 1st 2009).

The announcement and additional information is available at
www.soc.utu.fi/projektit/sosiaalipolitiikka/sospolnet/index.php

Additional information may also be given by Professor J. P. Roos (j.p.roos@helsinki.fi) or Professor Veli-Matti Ritakallio (vemari@utu.fi)

The applications must be sent to the Department of Social Policy, University of Helsinki, either by mail: Department of Soxcial Policy, Snellmaninkatu 10, PL18, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland, or by e-mail: to j.p.roos@helsinki.fi by 6 pm, August 31st, 2009.

Appendix:
2.6 Vastuu Profile

We mean by a need for a school on social policy an orientation which emphasizes theoretical orientations which are relevant for practical, existing social policies. In our view most of sociological and some social policy theories have distanced themselves from actual social policies and their preconditions so that they cannot be really used for evaluating or proposing policies. Only a theory which produces hypotheses and assumptions which can be empirically analyzed and compared is useful for social policy purposes.

The data concerning outcomes of social policies and their preconditions are nowadays so extensive that it is already impossible to grasp and make coherent use of it. There is urgent need of development and unification of existing theories. There are several competing frames of reference, some of which produce absolutely contradictory outcomes.

The special quality of the VASTUU graduate school is that it is based on one broad discipline, social policy. This discipline is one of the original disciplines of the new faculty of social sciences in the University of Helsinki and in a sense a Finnish specialty that has evolved since the mid 1940s as an academic discipline and a scientific society with about one thousand members. On the other hand social policy in Finland is growing in importance for several reasons:

• Welfare state in Finland is in transition due the various trade-offs between demographic change, competitiveness and equality resulting in demand for research that can either assess the consequences of these changes or to contribute for current policies. In order to be able to do so, we shall need well-trained researchers with reasonable good knowledge on the institutions of welfare state, their adjustments and welfare consequences. In particular, we need scholars capable to deal with issues like financing, cost-shifting, flexicurity, innovation diffusion, the adaptive efficiency of technologies and institutions, poverty and income distribution; furthermore, there is a clear need for up-dating current theories of well-being and welfare, including those inspired by evolutionary psychology and subjective welfare theories, and systematically apply them to various empirical data sets, in order to generate theories that apply well to affluent societies.
• The one major interest of the graduate school will be to study poverty and precarisation both quantitatively and qualitatively. Old and new risks as well as accumulation of risks will also be addressed.
• The integration of European union and the globalisation of various social policies (e.g. Copenhagen process on social development, the Beijing process on gender equality, the Cairo process of demography, and numerous poverty reduction strategies) has resulted in need for multi-governance and comparative research not yet available to a sufficient degree. In particular, we need scholars capable to deal with various methods of multi-level governance (e.g. those of Lisbon strategy, strategy for sustainable development, the OMC in social protection and immigration, and global dimension of European policies). In many ways, these are the issues of national interests.
• One of the special orientations of the Graduate School will be Global Social Policy and eradicating worldwide social inequalities, this is an increasingly important task which has to be addressed. Globalisation and economic growth is currently leading to considerable social changes, structural transitions and human mobilities throughout the world. These need to be addressed thoroughly not only considering their economic and ecological impacts, but also in terms of social risk, social justice and global social policies. More in particular the VASTUU graduate school focuses - with critical reflection - on implications of global social policy programmes, such as the Millennium goals, on the national and international social policy schemes, social policy institutions and international co-operation related to the implementation of sustainable development. Global social policy implies successful international and multilayered governance. The VASTUU graduate school will contribute to the education of a new gene ration of social policy experts qualified to take action in both local and global context of social policy.