Due to several enquiries, the deadline for call for abstracts to WORK2019 conference is extended to 31 January 2019. The conference theme “Real Work in the Virtual World” hosts over 20 streams on work and working life research. Please visit www.work2019.fi for more information on the theme and the streams. More detailed information on the submission and the link to … Continued
The 4th international interdisciplinary WORK-conference on research on work and working life is organised on 14-16 August 2019 at the Finlandia Hall and the National Museum of Finland in Helsinki. The theme of the conference, Real Work in the Virtual World, offers a wide range of streams with diverse work and working life research related … Continued
Professor Anne Kovalainen and docent Seppo Poutanen from SWiPE have worked since August as visiting scholars at Harvard University in the United States. They were invited after an application process of the SCANCOR-Weatherhead partnership. Kovalainen and Poutanen work at the at Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA). Their visit now lasts until the end … Continued
The latest issue of scientific journal Työelämän tutkimus, published by the Finnish Association of Work Life Research, is a special edition produced in cooperation with WORK2017 conference, Turku School of Economics, Turku Centre for Labour Studies and the Finnish Association of Work Life Research. The issue is thematically linked to digitalisation and platform economy as well … Continued
SWiPE subproject leader, senior researcher Laura Seppänen from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health visited Yle’s morning TV programme on Thursday 29 November 2018. The theme of the interview was digital labour market, but also SWiPE research project was presented. The digital labour transmission and the platform work in general were discussed. Also the research … Continued
Die Plattformökonomie ändert alles – Platform economy changes everything. This punchy line was written in one of Germany’s widely-read online magazines in February 2017. Actually, this sentence started the idea of writing my master’s thesis about platform economy and crowdwork platforms and how they are described in German online magazines. I remained to ponder the … Continued
What kind of skills will be needed in working life? In what way would it be useful to develop professional skills? Among other things, these questions were discussed in the research seminar “Osaamisella tulevaisuuteen” (To the future with competence) on 7 November 2018 organized by projects funded by the Strategic Research Council at the Academy … Continued
In the stream Digital change and the new challenges of organising work at the Finnish Conference on Work Research a number of aspects of changes caused by digitalisation was discussed. The stream was led by the leader of SWiPE’s subproject, Laura Seppänen, from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, together with Sami Paavola, assistant professor of the … Continued
The SWiPE project is as much about research as it is about delivering insights that are of use for Finnish businesses. My colleague Kaisa, for example, is working on the responsiveness of the Finnish education system to the emerging and future needs of Finnish industry. As a part-timer on SWiPE, my doctoral project has a … Continued
The Finnish Conference on Work Research 2018 was organised at the University of Tampere in 1.-2.11.2018 for the fifteenth time. The conference is established, multidisciplinary and diversified meeting place for the researchers, developers, consultants and users of work life research information. The theme of this year’s conference was sustainable productivity and humane work. Laura Seppänen, … Continued