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
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 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
Professor Anne Kovalainen, head of the SWiPE Consortium spoke at the New Work Factory – Impact Seminar on the 30th of November held in Kulttuurikeskus Korjaamo in Helsinki. Professor Kovalainen adressed the seminar on the topic “Digitalisation as a social phenomenon and source of renewal”. The seminar touched upon themes ranging from Industrie 4.0, Digitalisation, … Continued
The Working Life 2020 seminar on the 8th of November looked at questions ranging from what we know – and don’t know – about platform economy and crowdsourced work phenomena, how work and working life are changing, what effects these shifts might have on our society, and finally, how Finland ought to respond. The platform … Continued
Antti-Jussi Tahvanainen is a research director at ETLA the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy. He has many years of experience in research projects both at home and abroad and has taught business model design in the Aalto University entrepreneurship programme. He is also an entrepreneur and an executive of a charged with analysing the … Continued
Jari Hakanen is a Research Professor at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and is docent of social psychology at the University of Helsinki. He has previously worked as a research director at the University of Helsinki researcher collegium and as a researcher at STAKES (the National Institute for Health and Welfare). Jari also has … Continued