SWiPE Researcher Annina Ropponen is studying profesionals’ time use throughout the course of their day. Using a mobile app, her research aims to measure how professionals’ divide their day into work, free time and rest and aims to understand how their recovery time. The mobile app – Aikani – is being used to collect data … Continued
”The vast majority of mundane activities constituting human life aredriven by one’s entrepreneurial spirit to create new social or material value, compete and cooperate, transform and develop […] entrepreneurship has been reacaste [sic.] as a major social force, and method of living and learning […] nowadays entrepreneurial competences are becoming as important as literacy, and … Continued
Time Thursday 16th February, 08:30 to 12:00 Place Crowne Plaza Helsinki, Lumo-room, Mannerheimintie 50 Helsinki Registration Click Here Work and the ways of doing work are changing. At the same time, we know ever more about the link between working time, rest and health. What kind of working-time regulation is needed or is it … Continued
Platform economy work can be looked at from many perspectives (see e.g. Kenney & Zysman 2016, The Rise of the Platform Economy, Science and Technology, XXXII/3). For the occasional service provider Uber or Airbnb enables the conversion of idle time and underutilised capital – a car or a spare bedroom – to money. Buying the … Continued
Time 31 January 2017 at 12:00-16:00 Place Old Student House (Vanha Ylioppilastalo), Mannerheimintie 3, Helsinki Registration before 22 January 2017 via this link Global business environment and increased migration to Finland open up new opportunities for our society and economy to benefit from the skills and know-how of newcomers. Finnish business life can be … Continued
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