SWiPE Newsletter 01/16
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
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
Mervi Hasu is a Senior Researcher at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and also a Docent both at the Aalto University faculty of Management and at the Lappeenranta University of Technology in the faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management. She is also working as associated professor in the University of Oslo in the department … Continued
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 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 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
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
SWiPE Researchers Laura Seppänen from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health writes abour crowdsourcing and unconventional work in her Unelmahautomo -blogpost (in Finnish): “Mitä yhteistä on Suomen vaeltavilla ammattilaisilla ja Brasilian köyhillä kotiäideillä”.
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
Things didn’t quite go to plan recently as I was opening a seminar; I began by asking “who here is an employee – would you raise your hands? Then, I asked who here imagines themselves to be developers or managers?” What I got in return to this was a befuddled silence… a moment later a … Continued
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