New research director 1st January 2023

As of 1 January 2023, Mia Tammelin, tenure-track Professor at the Department of Social Research, University of Tampere, will take up her position as PERLA’s Research Director. The position of Research Director is a fixed-term position (5 years). Tammelin has previously worked in teaching and research positions at universities and research institutes, and as an expert at the International Labour Organization (ILO). Tammelin’s research interests include everyday family life, family relations, reconciling work, family and other life issues and labour policy. She is currently in charge of a research project on poverty and well-being of families with children, which aims to understand families’ everyday experience of poverty, read about the project and the blog. Tammelin is also part of the consortium of the NuoriSO project on social work for young adults and is involved in a project on the support of sports clubs for low-income families.

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Mia Tammelin

  • Associate Professor
  • Faculty of Social Sciences
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