Outputs
On this page you will find a selection of our outputs, such as articles, blogs and policy briefs. Please note, that what you will find on this page is only part of what we have produced. A more comprehensive list can be found on our Finnish-language pages. We strive to gradually translate key outputs that are in Finnish to English.
peer-reviewed ARTICLES
Kankainen, V., Katainen, A., Hautamäki, L. & Warpenius, K. (2024) Representations of alcohol and drug use in the Finnish reform of social and health care service users’ rights. International Journal of Drug Policy. 128, 104430.
Seuri, O., Katainen, A. & Toivanen, P. (2023) Blurring boundaries of expert knowledge and stakeholder agenda – News media as a knowledge broker in the Finnish alcohol policy debate. SSM – Qualitative Research in Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100355
Tiitinen, L., Harrikari, T., Saraniemi, S., Romakkaniemi, M., & Fiorentino, V. (2023) Home School at the Edge of Chaos During the Lockdown: Social Workers’ Perspectives. Children and Youth Services Review, 25 October 2023, 107250.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107250.
Nieminen, K. & Sarasoja, L. (2023) Epistemic othering: The Interplay of Knowledges in Legislative Drafting. Journal of Law and Society 2023;50: 322–343. DOI: 10.1111/jols.12443
Saraniemi, S., Harrikari, T., Fiorentino, V., Romakkaniemi, M., Tiitinen, L., & Leppiaho, T. (2023). ‘I have built an office for myself in the sauna’ – The well-being of social workers in liminal space during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. International Social Work, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728231186519
Rantala, K., Alasuutari, N. & Kuorikoski, J. (2023) The logic of regulatory impact assessment: From evidence to evidential reasoning. Regulation & Governance. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12542
(2023) Emerging opportunities for relationship-based social work? Finnish social workers’ reflections on utilising digital environments during two phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, European Journal of Social Work, DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2023.2196374
Esko, T. & Koulu, R. (2023) Imaginaries of better administration: Renegotiating the relationship between citizens and digital public power, Big Data & Society , 10 (1).
Esko, T., & Koulu, R. (2022). Rethinking research on social harms in an algorithmic context, Justice, Power and Resistance, 5(3), 307–313.
Lehtimäki, T., & Taipale, J. (2024). Supervising veterinarians as boundary-spanning agents: Human–Animal Relations in Law-Science Interaction. Science & technology studies.
Harrikari, T., Mooney, J., Adusumalli, M., McFadden, P., & Leppiaho, T. (Eds.). (2023). Social Work During COVID-19: Glocal Perspectives and Implications for the Future of Social Work (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003374374
Unlu, A., Tammi, T., & Hakkarainen, P. (2023). Stakeholders’ Problematisation of Drug Consumption Rooms: A Case Study of the Policy Initiative in Helsinki. Journal of Drug Issues, 53(2), 262–279. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220426221093609
Saraniemi, S., Harrikari, T., Fiorentino, V., Romakkaniemi, M., & Tiitinen, L. (2022). Silenced Coffee Rooms—The Changes in Social Capital within Social Workers’ Work Communities during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Challenges, 13(1), 8.
Fiorentino, V., Romakkaniemi, M., Harrikari, T., Saraniemi, S., & Tiitinen, L. (2022). Towards digitally mediated social work – the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on encountering clients in social work. Qualitative Social Work, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250221075603
Malik, H. M., Viljanen, M., Lepinkäinen, N. & Alvesalo-Kuusi, A. . (2022) Dynamics of Social Harms in an Algorithmic Context. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 11(1), 182-195. doi: 10.5204/ijcjsd.2141
Unlu, A., Demiroz, F., Tammi, T., & Hakkarainen, P. (2021). The Complexity of Drug Consumption Room Policy and Progress in Finland. Contemporary Drug Problems, 48(2), 151–167.
Harrikari, T., Romakkaniemi, M., Tiitinen L. & Ovaskainen, S. (2021). Pandemic and Social Work: Exploring Finnish Social Workers’ Experiences through a SWOT-analysis. British Journal of Social Work 51 (5).
Romakkaniemi, M., Harrikari, T., Saraniemi, S., Tiitinen, L. & Fiorentino, V. (2021). ‘Bonding, bridging and linking the last resort tailboard’: Shifts in social workers’ professional positions and mobilizing adaptive capital during the coronavirus pandemic. Nordic Social Work Research, 1-14.
Other publications
Huhta, H. (2024). Ethnicity, Race and the Prisoner Community: Shaping Meanings in Finnish Male Prisons. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54990-8
Kankainen, V. (2024) A Finn always wins?: Justifications, governance, and contradictions of the Finnish gambling-profit-based public good. Doctoral dissertation, University of Helsinki
Susanna Lundell & Maija Helminen: Consultation of prisoners on the reform of the Imprisonment Act
Kati Rantala: Who are the silent agents in law drafting and why SILE only focuses to some of them?
Alitalo, O., Vanto, J., Peltoniemi, N. & Alvesalo-Kuusi, A. (22.3.2023) Asylum seekers as information providers in law-drafting. Consultation pilot of individuals applying for a residence permit as minors.
Vanto, J. (2023) Wiggle room: Discretionary power and vulnerability. Doctoral dissertation, University of Turku.
Lehtimäki, T. (2021) Organizing natures justification and critique in the development of organic agriculture in Finland. Doctoral dissertation, University of Helsinki.
Other selected outputs
SILE wisiting the EUI
The director of the SILE project, research director Kati Rantala, will visit the European University Institute’s School of Transnational Governance in Florence on 13th October 2023. During the visit, EUI organizes a seminar titled “Silent Actors in Rulemaking: Challenges and Ways Ahead. What is wrong with inclusive participation in rule-making and what to do about it?” Rantala will discuss the involvement of silent actors in rulemaking, as well as the associated challenges and rationales, with students and researchers during her visit. You can find more information about the visit and the seminar content on the EUI’s website here: https://www.eui.eu/events?id=563284.