Programme

You can find the abstracts here:

Parallel sessions 1.1-1.5 (12.30-14.00)

Session 1.1: Translating research to impact: challenges and practices for impact-based research

Room: U4079 

Chair(s): Rūta Šerpytytė (), Amir Pakpour )

Presentations:

Yasmin Samaletdin, Seija Jalagin – Pathways to societal change in migration research: Reflections from the Mobile Futures

Eva Malessa – Breaking barriers to accessibility and usability in a serious game: Redesigning a literacy support game app to make it LESLLA-friendly

Suvi Valsta, Salla Kuuluvainen – The ReBel Journey – Harnessing design thinking in research can create magic

Kirsi Leskinen, Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö– Identifying and breaking language-related institutional barriers to higher education for students from migrant backgrounds

Megan Dale – Migrant Participation in Sustainability Transformations: A Systematic Literature Review

Session 1.2: Breaking group barriers 

Room: Main Building, Small Hall (F4050)

Chair(s): Paula Paajanen (), Eerika Finell () 

Presentations:

Riikka Era – Bridging Barriers through Art: Low-Threshold Encounters in a Finnish Reception Centers

Venla Rantanen & Lotta Leinamo – Resisting Otherness through Humor in adult basic education classroom 

Annika Valtonen – Ethnicity-based categories as bridges and barriers in storytelling interactions

Paula Paajanen – The lived experience of repeated intergroup contact in a befriending program: A dyadic, longitudinal and multimodal analysis

Session 1.3: Technologies of Inclusion and Exclusion: Identity, Community, and Civic Engagement in the Digital Age

Room: U4072

Chair(s): Tuire Liimatainen (), Keiu Telve (), Jaanika Kingumets ()

Presentations:

Frida Alizadeh Westerling – Techno-legal modalities in asylum law

Nia Sullivan, Tuuli Kurki – From Filtering Harm to Building Joy - Digital Advocacy and Collective Care by, with and for Racialized Communities

Gwenaëlle Bauvois – Femonationalism and Digital Feminist Repertoires - The Case of Collectif Némésis

Session 1.4: Visualizing invisible barriers: Cartographies of everyday coexistence

Room: F3010 

Chair(s): Liina Mustonen ), Bruno Lefort ), Saara Toukolehto )

Presentations:

David Hoffman, Sonya Sahradyan – Visualizing Structural Dynamics to Better Understand the (Ir)Relevance and Limitations of Design Thinking and the Hype Around Digitalization and AI: Bringing a Bigger Picture into View (LEVERAGE)

Chamanie Nanayakkara – Hello Helsinki! (on the everyday experiences of food delivery workers)

Yorgos Konstantinou – HABIBING/ 3 days at Habibi.Works

Liina Mustonen – Cartographies of resistance in Berlin

Session 1.5: Rage against the machine: Technologies of living in transitional spaces

Room: F3005 

Chair(s): Iida Kauhanen ()

Presentations:

Oleksandra Sushchenko & Johanna Ylipulli – Belonging as an Aspect of Care in Digital Public Services

Parallel sessions 2.1-2.5 (14.30-16.00)

Session 2.1: Translating research to impact: challenges and practices for impact-based research

Room: U4079

Chair(s): Rūta Šerpytytė ()

Discussion

Session 2.2: Breaking group barriers: Cross-cultural connections in everyday life

Room: Main Building, Small Hall (F4050)

Chair(s): Paula Paajanen (), Eerika Finell () 

Presentations:

Olga Tkach – Making and breaking barriers across homestay accommodation: Mediating labour beyond hosting households

Maarit Pönkänen – A narrative dyadic study of loneliness among mothers participating in a befriending programme

Athina Simatou – Visual and Performative Narratives: Feminist Storytelling as Inclusionary Practice in Contemporary Cities

Ángel García Morales, Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez – Bridging Communication Gaps: Protocols for Telephone Interpreting with Neurodivergent Patients in Spanish Healthcare

Heli Tikkanen,  Lotta Haikkola – ”No, we don´t really talk about racism.” DEI and Avoidance of Discussions on Racism in the Finnish Private Sector.

Session 2.3: Technologies of Inclusion and Exclusion: Identity, Community, and Civic Engagement in the Digital Age

Room: U4072

Chair(s): Tuire Liimatainen (), Keiu Telve (), Jaanika Kingumets ()

Presentations:

Pia Hagqvist, Perpetual Crentsil – Culture and digital skills – Gender, minorities, and barriers in accessing health

Maryna Smahina – ‘More Than Sufferers’ - Digital Boundary - Making and Belonging through Work Among Ukrainian Forced Migrants in Finland

Sukthawee Suwannachairop –  Political and Technological Innovations in Advancing Inter-generational Climate Governance and Breaking Youth Representation Ceilings

Session 2.4: Exploring the emerging Impacts of Generative AIs on our societies

Room: U3039

Chair(s): Marta Choroszewicz (), Visa Rantanen (), Zhen Im () 

Savitri Jetoo – Sanctuary by design: Artificial intelligence and the rise of the North American Great Lakes Climate Havens

Session 2.5: Pathways to Belonging: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Migrant and Minority Contexts

Room: U4075

Chair(s): Zahra Hosseini ()

Presentations:

Yi-Hsuan Huang – Building Bridges through Participatory Curation: Strengthening Indigenous Adolescents’ Ethnic Identity and Historical Empathy

Barış Yüksel – Postmigrant Futures and Imaginaries: Rethinking Belonging of Racialized Young Adults in Finland and Germany in Times of Rising Anti-immigration Sentiments

Parallel Sessions 3.1-3.5 (12.30-14.00)

Session 3.1: Exploring the emerging Impacts of Generative AIs on our societies

Room: Main Building, Small Hall (F4050)

Chair(s): Marta Choroszewicz (), Visa Rantanen (), Zhen Im () 

Frida Hartman – Who conducts research on AI bias, and what are the implications?  

Katharina Ruuska – "Make for me comprehension and writing test for Finnish language B1 level, like real one”. Language learning, digital technologies and social (dis)connection in a migration context 

Session 3.2: Policy issues in migration and integration

Room: U3029

Chair(s): Zahra Hosseini ()

Presentations:

Henna Nurmi – This is not Migration Policy, this is Security, Security, and Security’: Securitization of Migrants in Finnish Political Discourse on Instrumentalized Migration

Olga Cielemecka – Border Barriers: From Barbed Wire to Smart Fence

Iiris Annala – EU social security regulations, statistics and the epistemic government of EU mobility

Minna Raappana – Writing together without a shared language? Frames child welfare social work professionals use describing participatory documentation practices with multilingual service users

Session 3.3: Crafting inclusion: Empathy-driven persona workshop for inclusive public service

Room: U3041

Interactive craft workshop by Annukka Svanda

Session 3.4: Pitch your research: Connecting cities and academia

Room: U3043

Chair(s): Viivi Eskelinen ()

Presentations:

Linda Bäckman – International students as a potentially vulnerable group in Finnish society

Olena Ocheredko – From Efficiency to Empathy: Managing Refugee Integration Through Trauma-Informed Information Systems

Sandra Nasser El-Dine – Arabitaustaisten äitien ääniä Helsingistä: arki, koulutus ja kotiutuminen

Session 3.5: Visualizing invisible barriers:

Room: F3006

Chair(s): Liina Mustonen ), Bruno Lefort ), Saara Toukolehto )

Presentations:

Yorgos Konstantinou – A workshop on visual language (understanding mechanisms for representing realities through drawing)