The Methodological Unit organizes a weekly Brown Bag Seminar to highlight novel methodological approaches in humanities and social sciences. The idea of the meetings is to introduce methodological innovations and cutting-edge research in various disciplines in an easily accessible manner and have an interdisciplinary discussion in an easy-going atmosphere over lunch. Bring your own lunch, we bring fresh methodological topics!
Every Tuesday at 12.15.
You are welcome to join us at seminar room (access via Vuorikatu 3 courtyard, take elevator or stairs from Café Portaali to floor B5, room 524 is on the right after a glass door) or online via Zoom.
There will be a 20-minute introduction to the methodological theme, followed by an open discussion of 40 minutes. The seminars are open to everybody. We expect a multidisciplinary and methodologically curious audience from different faculties and units of the central campus. The language of the meetings can be Finnish or English.
The most important prerequisite for participation is not methodological expertise, but an open mind towards new methodological innovations and discussion across methodological and disciplinary boundaries.
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It has been suggested that poor mental health could be contagious and spread in social networks. In my talk, I will illustrate how Finnish register-based data can be used to examine peer effects. I will present findings from on-going studies where institutionally imposed peer networks in adolescence are used to study peer effects of mental disorders. The benefits and caveats of register-based social network research will be discussed.
Christian Hakulinen is an Associate Professor of Health and Well-Being Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki. Christian has been awarded ERC Starting grant and Academy Research Fellowship. His research focuses on register-based psychiatric research and psychosocial factors that affect mental and physical health outcomes across the life-course.
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