Thematic call for 2025: Law and Politics

Awarded grants

 

Fabritius, Noora (Master of Social Sciences, Bachelor of Science)

Travel grant for a research visit to the University of Montreal to advance the doctoral dissertation Law at Finland’s Border: Decision-Making and Its Social Dimensions in First-Line Border Inspections

€3,700

 

Farahani, Emad (Master of Arts)

For doctoral research: Legal Fictions and Class Realities: Unequal Foundations of a Universal Ideal (The Missing Class in Human Rights Discourse: A Marxist and Postcolonial Inquiry)

€26,000

 

Heinikoski, Saila (Docent of Political Science)

For the Finnish translation of Giorgio Agamben’s Lo stato di eccezione (2023)

€10,000

 

Häkkinen, Esko (Doctor of Laws)

For postdoctoral research: The Development of the Client’s Right to Self-Determination and Participation in Finnish Social Services from the 1950s to the 2020s

€6,500

 

Kasa, Tuija (Doctor of Philosophy)

For postdoctoral research: Law and Politics in Human Rights Education in an Age of Polarization

€26,000

 

Kekkonen, Maria (Master of Social Sciences)

For doctoral research: Forms of Political Trust and Distrust as the Foundation of Societal Resilience

€13,000

 

Lassila, Maija (Doctor of Social Sciences, Master of Fine Arts)

Travel grant for postdoctoral research (fieldwork and research visit in Queensland, Australia): Justice in the Green Transition and Alternative Global Politics: An Ethnographic Study among Reindeer Herders in Arctic Finland and Indigenous Networks in Australia

€12,000

 

Matveinen, Kanerva (Master of Arts)

For doctoral research: The Labour Question in Shrinking Regions

€13,000

 

Nikoleishvili, Karlo (Master of Arts, Master of Laws)

For doctoral research: Prisoners’ Right to Rehabilitation: A Comparative Study Between Georgia and Finland

€13,000

 

Nikoleishvili, Shorena (Doctor of Laws)

For postdoctoral research: Egalitarian Promise: Exploring Erga Omnes Partes Standing in International Law and Politics — Its Implications for Statehood and Self-Determination

€26,000

 

Nikumaa, Henna (Doctor of Philosophy)

For postdoctoral research on the realization of the rights of ageing persons with disabilities and a travel grant for a research stay at the University of Oxford

€11,000

 

Pölkki, Miika (Master of Arts)

For the Finnish translation of Kohei Saito’s Hitoshinsei no shihonshugi (Capital in the Anthropocene, 2020) and a travel grant to Tokyo

€8,000

 

Rahkonen, Susanna (Licentiate of Laws)

For doctoral research: The Right to Basic Livelihood Security — How Do the Constitution and Fundamental Principles of the Legal Order Bind the Legislator?

€26,000

 

Särmä, Saara (Doctor of Social Sciences) and research team

For postdoctoral research: Minds and Entertainment – Everyday Sites of Militarization in Finland in the 2020s

€13,000

 

Viren, Eetu (Doctor of Social Sciences)

For the Finnish translation of a selection of writings by Hans-Jürgen Krahl

€13,000