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Centre for Consumer Society Research

University of Helsinki

Research Areas

We work in six research areas: Data, self and society, Health, food and social change, Innovation, market disruption and value creation, Politics of co-creation, Sustainable technologies, practices and places, and Wealth and spending.

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Data, self and society

The research group “Data, Self and Society” at the Consumer Society Research Centre explores how datafication, referring to the conversion...

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Health, food and social change

Research on this thematic area focuses on consumer practices and meanings in relation to health/wellbeing and eating as well as factors and...

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Innovation, market disruption and value creation

Our studies in innovation, market disruption and value creation look at consumption and consumer behaviour as challengers of established...

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Politics of co-creation

Co-creation is an approach for developing new value and solutions to societal challenges through collaborations among public and private...

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Sustainable technologies, practices and places

Reflecting the high social demand, research in this thematic area focuses on the introduction of new energy and environmental technologies...

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Wealth and spending

Research in this thematic area focuses on consumption as an economic and social phenomenon: it is our view that consumption cannot be...