Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies - News

An autoethnographic study explored how communication and encounters with healthcare professionals influenced one patient’s sense of control during her treatment journey.

The Excellent Teaching Practitioner 2025 Awards were presented at the UEF Learning Environment Seminar on 19 August.

The UEF Business School has earned business accreditation, issued by AACSB International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

The degree programme consists of studies in sociology and social policy.

Novel study examines how West African states can strategically harness intellectual property regulation to advance their economic and trade interests.

In the beginning of June, RUSTIK project members gathered at the UEF for a project meeting and living labs sessions, organized by the Karelian Institute. RUSTIK is a four-year transdisciplinary research project aiming to enable rural communities’ actors and policy makers to design better strategies, initiatives and policies fostering sustainability transitions of rural areas.

The patient’s experience of agency was shaped not only by healthcare professionals, other cancer patients and close family members, but also by external events.

The Research Council of Finland’s Scientific Council for Social Sciences and Humanities has granted 2.8 million euros of funding to four new Academy Projects and one new Academy Research Fellow at the University of Eastern Finland.

Nine Academy Projects and four Academy Research Fellows secured funding.