SWiPE Newsletter 01/16

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Read the first SWiPE project newsletter to find out more about our activity and to familiarise yourself with 10 central concepts in SWiPE research: SWiPE Newsletter 01/2016

Sari Käpykangas, Researcher, FIOH

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Sari Käpykangas is a researcher at the Finnish Institute for Occupational Health. She has a degree in social sciences and social psychology. Sari is a SWiPE consortium researcher and contributes a social-psychology perspective to the project. Sari is a social scientist and observes the platform economy principally as a group level phenomenon.   What are … Continued

Laura Seppänen, Senior Researcher, FIOH

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Laura Seppänen is a Senior Researcher at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH). She is also a docent of Agroecology at the University of Helsinki. She has studied change in work in many industries and has led a number of Finnish and international multidisciplinary research projects. Laura is especially interested in how significant changes … Continued

Aija Leiponen, Professor, Senior Fellow, Cornell University and ETLA

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Aija Leiponen is Associate Professor at the Dyson of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. Her fields of research include digilatisation, innovation strategies, organisations and technological chanhe. Aija has also worked as a researcher at Berkely in California, as well as at the Imperial College in London and ETLA, where she remains a senior … Continued

Everything changes, but does anything change?

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It’s a Friday afternoon in November. I’m sitting in a train from Tampere and the Nordic Working Life Conference towards Turku and home. I’m playing Kuningasidea when their lyrics “I’m balanced when I’m unbalanced enough…” (Orig: “Oon balanssis kun mull o sopivasti epätasapainoo…”) have me recall the days’ conversations about the uncertainty of working life … Continued

Satu Aaltonen, Project Researcher, University of Turku

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Satu Aaltonen is a project researcher at the Entrepreneurship Unit, Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku. She holds a Masters in Social Sciences and is active in teaching. Satu Aaltonen contributes culture and society perspectives to work research to the SWiPE project. Within SWiPE Satu concentrates principally on questions of migrant integration … Continued

Eveliina Saari, Senior Researcher, FIOH

Eveliina Saari is a senior Researcher at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and is a Docent of adult education specialising in organisational learning and developmental evaluation at the University of Jyväskylä. She is also programme director for the Strategic Research Council programmes: Skilled Workers – Successful Labour Markets and Health, Wellbeing and Lifestyles. In … Continued