New Academy Research Fellows and Academy Projects selected in social sciences and humanities

The Research Council of Finland (RCF) has selected researchers in social sciences and humanities research to receive Academy Research Fellowship funding. The funding period in the Academy Research Fellowship and Academy Project funding schemes is four years. The funding is granted to a research organisation that will manage the use of funding and be responsible for compliance with the RCF’s funding terms.

New Academy Research Fellowships

Henri Olkoniemi: Developmental trajectories of irony comprehension: Addressing a critical gap in adolescence (IRONY), 700 000 €

Anna Varfolomeeva: From a Void to the Cloud? Data Centres in the Afterlives of Arctic Industries (DATAVOID), 678 737 €

New Academy Projects

Tapio Nykänen: CEAVZIL: Borders of the Naturecultural Resilience of the Sámi, 599 365 €

Marko Jouste: Sámi Dance and Dance Music: Embodied, Affective and Transcultural Agency, 412 813 €

Hanna-Leena Määttä: Religion, Recognition, and Resilience: Spiritual perspectives and coping across the WWII Arctic Borders, 599 606 €

Sari Kunnari: Listening for their Future: The Complex Associations between Hearing, Cognition, Spoken Language, Literacy and Psychosocial Wellbeing in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adolescents? 482 060 €

Heli Kuivila: Playful Entrepreneurial Minds: Playfulness and hybrid intelligence in higher education and working life, 229 938 €

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Created 15.6.2026 | Updated 15.6.2026