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Rejected, Unheard, and Gaining a Voice

Tampere University
Duration of project3.1.2022–31.12.2025
Area of focusSociety

Rejected, Unheard, and Gaining a Voice: Children’s Experiences of Abuse in Foster Care. What Inhibited and What Enabled Them to Share These Experiences 1950-2025

Main object: to develop understanding on the cultural, social, and institutional mechanisms inhibiting and/or facilitating children’s social sharing of difficult experiences (particularly experiences of neglect and abuse).

Research team and partners

PI, senior research fellow Antti Malinen
Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences (HEX)

Johanna Barkman, director of development
Pesäpuu ry, national child welfare organization

Pilvi Morko
Hoivatie, previously ”Friends of the Youth”, provider of national social services and expertise, specially for the young people

Mikko Oranen, director of development
Hoivatie

PhD Karoliina Puranen-Impola, historian
University of Jyväskylä

Anneli Tuura
Playback Theatre Storia

Artists, Cultural cooperative ILME:
Timo Harju, Mirka Kortesoja, Tiina Vehkaperä

Artists, Playback Theatre Storia:
Varpu Kohvakka, Tanja Pihlaja, Anu-Maaria Tulla, Jukka Virtala

Funding

Kone Foundation