Rejected, Unheard, and Gaining a Voice: Children’s Experiences of Abuse in Foster Care and the Barriers and Opportunities for Disclosure, 1950–2025, is a 4-year project (2022-2025), funded by the Kone Foundation.
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
Marianne Notko, Senior researcher, University of Jyväskylä
Marita Oja, research coordinator, Cultural Cooperative ILME
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