Niina Rantamäki


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ORCID link: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3926-5543


General description

I work as a research coordinator in the Unit of Social Sciences Unit at University of Jyväskylä, Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius.


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My research interests focus on the agency of clients, citizens, and local communities both in the public welfare service system and as a partner that supports and challenges its operation. I have examined the questions related the topic particularly from the point of view of rural areas and rural local communities. As a frame of reference for my research has served social sustainability, which I understand as a state where various dimensions of sustainable development are combined with human activity. In the field of social work, my research topic is located in the traditions of community work and structural social work.


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social work; welfare services; social sustainability; rural areas; local communities


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