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Funding: Academy of Finland
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The Global North shares one dilemma that jeopardises its sustainable future development: ageing and depopulation of rural areas.
Sustainable Rural Futures (SURF) tackles this urgent yet over-looked challenge from the perspective of young people and social
sustainability. The project explores how recent historical changes in the rural regions have affected the life chances of young people.
Building on a unique qualitative longitudinal study of two generations of rural young people and their families, the project aims to
identify essential elements of socially sustainable rural youth. The SURF project combines two qualitative follow-ups: 1) pre-existing
study of young adults (n= 30, born 2000), carried out by the research team on two sparsely populated regions between 2015–2025, and 2)
new follow-up of contemporary young people (n=30, born 2010) and their families (selection of parents of the young participants)
through a four-year period.
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Rural Leisure Time in the Making: Self-Created Youth Activities and Leisure Time in Sparsely Populated Rural Finland
Armila, Päivi; Käyhkö, Mari; Ristaniemi, Helena; Vehkalahti, Kaisa; Pöysä, Ville, 2025, Vehkalahti, Kaisa; Eriksen, Ingunn Marie; Østergaard, Jeanette, Growing Up Rural. Qualitative Longitudinal Explorations of Young People Living in the Nordic Countries, 171-197. A3 Book section, Chapters in research books -
Rural Nordic Youth’s Transition to Upper Secondary School: Challenges and Dilemmas
Rönnlund, Maria; Tollefsen, Aina; Eriksen, Ingunn Marie; Ristaniemi, Helena; Vehkalahti, Kaisa; Østergaard, Jeanette; Armila, Päivi, 2025, Vehkalahti, Kaisa; Eriksen, Ingunn Marie; Østergaard, Jeanette, Growing up Rural. Qualitative Longitudinal Explorations of Young People Living in the Nordic Countries, 199-231. A3 Book section, Chapters in research books -
The Unique Ethical Dimensions of Longitudinal Qualitative Research with Rural Young People
Aapola-Kari, Sinikka; Armila, Päivi, 2025, Vehkalahti, Kaisa; Eriksen, Ingunn Marie; Østergaard, Jeanette, Growing Up Rural. Qualitative Longitudinal Explorations of Young People Living in the Nordic Countries, 73-98. A3 Book section, Chapters in research books -
Trajectories of Belonging Among Nordic Rural Youth: Strengthening, Weakening, or Conflicting Belonging over Time
Eriksen, Ingunn Marie; Vehkalahti, Kaisa; Ristaniemi, Helena; Rönnlund, Maria; Tollefsen, Aina; Østergaard, Jeanette; Armila, Päivi, 2025, Vehkalahti, Kaisa; Eriksen, Ingunn Marie; Østergaard, Jeanette, Growinr up Rural. Qualitative Longitudinal Explorations of Young People Living in the Nordic Countries, 145-170. A3 Book section, Chapters in research books -
Young People’s Projective Imagination Growing Up in Rural Nordic Countries
Østergaard, Jeanette; Eriksen, Ingunn Marie; Rönnlund, Maria; Vehkalahti, Kaisa; Ristaniemi, Helena; Armila, Päivi; Tollefsen, Aina, 2025, Vehkalahti, Kaisa; Eriksen, Ingunn Marie; Østergaard, Jeanette, Growing up Rural. Qualitative Longitudinal Explorations of Young People Living in the Nordic Countries, 257-288. A3 Book section, Chapters in research books -
Belonging and participation: perspectives of youth from socio-cultural margins
Armila, Päivi; Sivenius, Ari, 2024, Chesters, Jenny, Research Handbook on Transitions into Adulthood, 92-102. A3 Book section, Chapters in research books -
Reflexive Learning with Young People in Qualitative Longitudinal Research
Aapola-Kari, Sinikka; Armila, Päivi; Käyhkö, Mari, 2024, Cook, Julia; Maire, Quentin; Wyn, Johanna, Longitudinal Methods in Youth Research: Understanding Young Lives Across Time and Space, 197-209. A3 Book section, Chapters in research books -
Syrjäseutu lasten ja nuorten liikkumisen tilana: STOP! Tässä seison enkä muuta voi? -tutkimushankkeen loppuraportti
Armila, Päivi; Halonen, Terhi; Sivenius, Ari; Haantio, Santtu, 2024, Kunnallisalan kehittämissäätiö. E2 Popularised monograph -
"Sanna tuu takasin" - Ystävyydet syrjäseudulla kasvaneiden nuorten elämässä
Armila, Päivi; Käyhkö, Mari, 2022, Nuorisotutkimus, 40, 3, 39-58. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
"Tasasen paskaa kuuluu": Elämänongelmien kirjoa kehkeytyvässä aikuisuudessa
Käyhkö, Mari; Armila, Päivi, 2022, Aikuiskasvatus, 42, 4, 270-285. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research