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Higher education graduates’ employability and social positioning in the labour market (HighEmploy)

The project focuses on the Finnish dual higher education (HE) system and HE graduates’ social positioning in the labour market in relation to the level of a degree, institutional setting and location as well as disciplinary field. The study relies on a multi-method approach combining quantitative and qualitative data (register-based data-set, survey, follow-up interviews) and methods. The study provides knowledge on the relative value of education and social selectiveness in HE graduate employability. Moreover, the study provides knowledge on HE graduates’ labour market trajectories and social positioning in relation to employability.

Nina Tusa (nina.tusa@uef.fi)

My dissertation study concerns the impact of the participatory care plan. The study includes 605 patients with hypertension, coronary artery disease or diabetes from the Siilinjärvi health centre. We have followed the clinical parameters of patients and their health-related quality of life for three years. The follow-up will continue as a registry survey. My dissertation is due to be completed in the autumn of ’23. Our research team could still accommodate 1-2 doctoral researchers, so feel free to contact us what research is of interest.

Timo Lakka (timo.lakka@uef.fi)

Timo Lakka is a Professor of Medical Physiology at University of Eastern Finland, a Specialist in Internal Medicine, and an Adjunct Professor of Public Health. His research is focused on the identification of individuals at increased risk of overweight, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases and the prevention of these diseases and conditions by increasing physical activity and improving diet since childhood. He is a Principal Investigator in the Physical Activity and Nutrition in Children (PANIC) study and a Co-Principal Investigator in the Stop Diabetes (StopDia) study and the Dose Responses to Exercise Training (DR’s EXTRA) study. He has also acted as a senior researcher in many other large-scale lifestyle intervention studies, long-term epidemiological follow-up studies, and wide international genetic-epidemiological studies. He has published over 360 scientific articles in international journals, and these articles have almost 60 000 citations and a h-index of 106 (Google Scholar). He has supervised 24 doctoral theses and is a supervisor of another 13 doctoral students.