University of Turku INVEST Research Flaghsip Centre 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.
INVEST research is organized around five research themes headed by research area directors:
- Socioeconomic and intergenerational inequalities;
- Demographic changes and family dynamics;
- Education, skills and learning;
- Child and adolescent psychosocial well-being and mental health;
- Public health and health equity
The thematic areas are not intended to be exclusive, and usually an individual study will overlap with more than one theme at a time. Each of the research themes is linked with interventions that already exist or are being developed. Research grants are meant for researchers conducting research related to at least one of the five INVEST research themes. Previously granted are allowed to reapply.
- Duration of the grant: 3–12 months.
- Amount of the grant: 2500 €/month to doctoral researchers and 3000 €/month to post-doctoral researchers, and 3500 €/month to senior researchers.
- Application period: 14.3.–31.3.2025
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.