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Research Institute

Our joint unit develops the university's research in the arts and promotes multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research projects.

RAATO 22.3.-14.4.2019 Raato collective: Siiri Korhonen, Paula Ruusuranta, Leena Saarinen, Milja Salonen. Photo: Petri Summanen

Purpose of the Research Institute

The University of the Arts Research Institute is a joint unit that serves the research conducted both at the institute and the university’s three Academies. The task of the institute is to develop the university’s research and promote cross-artistic and interdisciplinary research projects.

The Research Institute’s core community consists of professors, university researchers, postdoctoral researchers, as well as grant-funded and visiting researchers. The institute’s activities—researcher meetings, seminars, conferences, and publications—benefit the wider research community including art professionals and researchers within Uniarts Helsinki and beyond.

On this page, you can find information about the institute’s research networks, research projects and researchers. If you are looking for news about our research or current research events or information about our research projects, you can find them in the newsroom and event calendar and project listing page.

Contact information

  • Leena Rouhiainen

    Head of the Research Institute, University of the Arts Helsinki;
    Professor of Artistic Research, Theatre Academy
    +358400792093
    leena.rouhiainen@uniarts.fi

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Introducing the research networks

Our thematic research networks foster interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary artistic research. Through their connections with national and international arts and research communities, they enhance the relevance, timeliness and impact of the Institute’s research activities.

  • What the Re­search In­sti­tute’s net­works do

    Uniarts Helsinki’s Research Institute hosts three thematic research networks. These networks focus on artistic research, research into the history of the arts and cultural life, and research in artist-pedagogy and arts education.

Research Institute personnel

Research Institute visiting researchers

Research Institute grant-funded researchers

Blogs and current activities

  • Art makes a dif­fer­ence

    Research network PEAR’s blog offers news and views about how research into arts education, artist pedagogy and artistic thinking can have an impact on society. There are blog articles both in English and in Finnish.

  • Artis­tic Re­search

    Writings about contemporary topics, latest events and activities in artistic research. The blog is coordinated by the research network NfAR. Most blog articles are in English.

  • Dy­namic in­ter­pre­ta­tions of the past

    Exploring the history of performing arts. Uniarts Helsinki’s History Forum’s blog. Most blog articles are in Finnish.

Resources and publications

  • Summer Academy for Artistic research (SAAR) 

    SAAR provides a supportive setting where artist-researchers from all fields collaborate, present their on-going artistic work, and research and receive feedback from experienced tutors and peers from leading academic art institutions.

  • OperaSampo

    OperaSampo provides rich linked open data on more than 9,000 opera and musical theatre performances staged in Finland between 1830 and 1960, together with information on over 3,500 individuals involved in these productions in various capacities. OperaSampo is a collaboration between Aalto University, the History Forum at the University of the Arts Helsinki, the Sibelius Academy, and HELDIG, the Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki.

  • Ruukku journal

    Discover the international journal for artistic research that we publish in collaboration with Aalto University’s School of Arts, Design and Architecture and the University of Lapland.