Parallel sessions

Abstracts for parallel sessions

Parallel Sessions I, Monday 7 November 15:00-16.30, House of Sciences and Letters

Parallel Sessions II, Tuesday 8 November 09:00-10:30, House of Sciences and Letters

Parallel Sessions III, Tuesday 8 November 11:00-12:30, House of Sciences and Letters

Parallel Sessions I

Monday 7 November 15:00-16:30, House of Sciences and Letters

1. RETHINKING YOUTH ISSUES: DOCUMENTARY FILMS AS KNOWLEDGE PRODUCERS (14.45-16.30)

Hall 505

Session organisers: Leena Suurpää & Sofia Laine, Finnish Youth Research Network

This session will bring together people working in the field of research and art to discuss the conditions and possibilities for dialogue in the knowledge production concerning the youth. The session starts with short documentary films produced in the research project Ajolähtö. Combining methods from journalism, photography and ethnography Ajolähtö-project investigates the 18–35-year-old young adults who work in low paid jobs or are self-employed in the economically declining areas in Finland. As part of the project, young adults are introduced in short documentaries made by photographer Sami Perttilä who will participate as a panellist in the session. In the short films that will be shown in this session people tell us about they work and leisure time. The session continues with a longer documentary film ‘Khamsa’ from SAHWA-project. Five young people, Hiba, Hakeem, Seif, Nina and Ayoub, tell their life stories in five Mediterranean cities: Beirut, Alexandria, Djerba, Timezrit and Casablanca. The film was directed by the journalist and documentary filmmaker Marc Almodóvar. He also directed ten documentaries and worked as a freelance journalist based in Egypt for nearly five years. Documentary can be found online.

After the documentaries the invited panellists will discuss the following issues:

How the documentary films approach young people
What kind of knowledge is produced in / through / by documentary films
What are the possibilities, conditions and obstacles/restrictions of the knowledge production that combines research and art

Panelists:

Susanne Dahlgren, university lecturer, University of Tampere
Sami Perttilä, photographer, Helsinki
Basma Serag, researcher, the American University in Cairo
Fanny Vilmilä, researcher, the Finnish Youth Research Network
The discussion will be facilitated by Leena Suurpää.
The floor will be also opened to general discussion. The session language is English.

2. YOUTH WORK I

Hall 312

Chairs: Anu Gretschel & Tomi Kiilakoski, Finnish Youth Research Network

Sanna Aaltonen & Antti Kivijärvi, Finnish Youth Research Network: Negotiating participation in participative research - insights from a youth work related project
Ilona-Evelyn Rannala, Tallinn University: Youth Work Students as Researchers at Tallinn University: based on student diploma works 2003-2014
Marti Taru, Tallinn University: The effect of youth work participation on future plans in Estonia
Anu Gretschel &Tomi Kiilakoski, Finnish Youth Research Network: Kansainvälisillä areenoilla: tapaustutkimuksia vapaaehtoistyön ja nuorisotyön vaikutuksista nuoriin

3. EDUCATION AND YOUTH TRANSITIONS

Hall 313

Chair: Mira Kalalahti, University of Helsinki

Christiane Meyers, University of Luxembourg: Research on ‘Youth in Action’ projects in Luxembourg: the variety of learning effects on participants
Pierluca Birindelli, University of Helsinki: The Cultural Experience of International Students: Narratives from North and South Europe
Anna Uboldi: Logics of exclusion and distinction: cultural capital and habitus in art schools’ students
Samuli Karevaara, Kymenlaakso University of Applied Sciences: Visual Tools for Youth Guidance

4. NETWORKED YOUTH – A LOCAL-GLOBAL NEXUS

Hall 405

Chairs: Tiia Laukkanen, Finnish Youth Research Network & Sanna Spišák, University of Turku

Sanna Spišák, University of Turku: Banging Without Feelings – Young People’s Reflections About Pornography and Expectations of Intimacy
Yen Mai, University of Helsinki & Sofia Laine, Finnish Youth Research Network: Combining autoethnography, ethnography and blog research when studying girls blogging in Vietnam and Tunisia
Noora Hästbacka & Tiia Laukkanen, Finnish Youth Research Network: Nuorten verkkoympäristöt äärettömänä tutkimuskenttänä

5. NUORTEN LÄHISUHTEET I

Hall 401

Chairs: Sinikka Aapola-Kari & Marja Peltola, Nuorisotutkimusverkosto

Päivi Honkatukia, Tampereen yliopisto & Martta Myllylä, Nuorisotutkimusverkosto: Tavallista vai toisenlaista väkivaltaa? Etnisyyden konstruointi nuorten kokemaa perheväkivaltaa koskevissa rikosilmoituksissa
Riikka Korkiamäki, Tampereen yliopisto: Maahanmuuttajanuorten ystävyyksiä tutkimassa - Ajatuksia aineistonkeruun vaiheilta

6. PANEL DISCUSSION: YOUTH IN THE NORDIC REGION - MENTAL HEALTH, EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION

Hall 404

Chair: Lidija Kolouh-Söderlund, The Nordic Centre for Welfare and Social Issues

The Nordic Centre for Welfare and Social Issues -project Youth in the Nordic Region - Mental Health, Employment and Education, examines initiatives that can prevent young people aged 19-29 being given disability pensions and initiatives for young people at risk of long-term exclusion because of mental problems or youth who neither work nor study. The Nordic Centre have collaborated with 17 researchers in the Nordic Region and have published eight research publications on these topics during 2015-2016. The themes in the publications differ but the overall topics are focusing on young people in vulnerable situations in terms of education, work, participation and mental ill-health. The topics also examines how public agencies and services in the Nordic region describe challenges, initiatives and measures relating to this group. In the Nordic Region we have similar welfare model solutions in our efforts and work with the heterogeneous group of young people who for various reasons risk to end up in vulnerable situations. At the same time our efforts and our measures differ as well, which leaves space for mutual learning and inspiration. What is not different is the young people's experiences, there are no large differences in being young in Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Islands as in other Nordic countries. The aim with the session will be to present the findings from the publications mentioned above in general terms and present policy recommendations that the Centre for Welfare and Social Issues will present to the Nordic Council of Ministers in October 2016. The session will also include three more specific presentations related to the publications in the project.

Panelists:

Sara Hultqvist, Lund University
Terje Olsen, Nordland Research Institute
Ragnhild Holmen Waldahl, Nordland Research Institute
Iben Nørup, Aalborg University
Matilda Wrede-Jäntti, Finnish Youth Research Network /Helsinki University/ National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
Sanna Aaltonen, Finnish Youth Research Network

7. NUORTEN OSALLISUUS JA PALVELUT

Hall 309

Chair: Mirja Määttä, Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, Central Finland

Hanna Laitinen, Jyväskylän yliopisto / Humak: Aktiivisia kansalaisia kasvattamassa? Nuorisojärjestöjen tarjoamat osallistumisen ja vapaaehtoisuuden mahdollisuudet
Sonja Miettinen, Suomen Partiolaiset: Partiotoiminnan tutkimus ja kehitys
Inka Sirén & Noora Hästbacka, Nuorisotutkimusverkosto: Sateenkaarinuoret päihde- ja mielenterveyspalveluissa
Tiina Kirvesniemi, Kymenlaakson ammattikorkeakoulu: Palvelumuotoilulla nuorten palveluita kehittämässä