Social Justice at the Focus of Education (SAFE)
SAFE focuses on the possibilities for agency, participation and safety for different students within school, and how the societal and educational structures and practices impact these possibilities.

Research group information
Contact information
Research group leader
- Professor
Research group description
The group focuses on questions of social justice in education: the possibilities for agency, participation and safety for different students within school, and how the societal and educational structures and practices impact these possibilities.
The researchers in the group are: Kaisu Alamikkelä, Katja Castillo, Anna Itkonen, Iida Kauhanen, Veli-Mikko Kauppi, Virve Keränen, Iiris Kivioja, Maija Lanas, Maria Petäjäniemi, Eveliina Puutio, Veera Tervo, Anu Uusikylä, Anne-Mari Väisänen, Kirsi Yliniva and Mehmet Öztürk.
Recent activities
Kaleva [in Finnish]: Teachers can have a long-lasting impact on their students
Maija Lanas [in Finnish]: Challenging situations in school, podcast
Eveliina Puutio [in Finnish]: On gender and sexuality in primary school
Award for the best scientific article of the year goes to SAFE's Väisänen & Lan…
Finnish Cultural Foundation awards funding for SAFE’s Kaisu Alamikkelä & Kirsi …
MLL funding for SAFE researcher Kirsi Yliniva
TOKPIK/SAFE course for teachers: "Safe growing environment in bullying preventi…
FERA 2022: Unheard voices and unseen sceneries in education. A SAFE-led themati…
Five SAFE members presenting in ECER Glasgow this year
Publications
List of publications by SAFE researchers from the past five years
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017