Feb 27, 2024: Ria-Maria Adams Successfully Defends Her Doctoral Dissertation
Ria-Maria Adams successfully defended her doctoral dissertation
Ria-Maria Adams has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis “The Quest for Good Life: Well-Being of Young People in Finnish Lapland” at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna under the supervision of Peter Schweitzer (University of Vienna) and Florian Stammler (University of Lapland). Janina Kehr (University of Vienna) and Joachim Otto Habeck (University of Hamburg) acted as examiners and Cornelia Staritz (University of Vienna) chaired the public defence.
In her dissertation, Ria-Maria focuses on young people’s perspectives on well-being in northern Finland. She highlights the importance of anthropological contributions to studies on Arctic youth and urges a more nuanced understanding of young people’s aspirations when they are in the process of deciding whether to stay in or leave their rural hometowns. This research was mainly supported by the uni:docs fellowship program of the University of Vienna. The research was completed while working for the ERC Advanced Grant project InfraNorth [Project ID: 885646]. This work was also partly supported by the WOLLIE project funded by the Academy of Finland [Project ID: 314471], as well as the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland, which granted her a guest researcher status for the entire time of her research.
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