Inequalities, Interventions and New Welfare State

The Master’s Degree program in Inequalities, Interventions and New Welfare State at University of Turkuis designed to give students rigorous training on social inequalities and welfare, effective social policy or intervention design, and using advanced statistical methods to measure data on these topics.

This degree of Inequalities, Interventions and New Welfare State offered by the University of Turkucollaborates with the national INVEST flagship’s world-class social and behavioural scientists. There is a strong emphasis in developing students quantitative research skills.

INVEST research covers six research themes – socioeconomic inequality and wellbeing, intergenerational and within-family influences, social relationships and networks, demography and life course, skills and learning, and health and biology – under the fields of sociology, social policy, psychology, child psychiatry, social work, statistics, economics, and epidemiology.

Career in Research

The MPINVEST program educates research and public administration professionals for analysing social inequalities and welfare state institutions as well as developing new policies and intervention methods to reduce disadvantages and improve wellbeing and skill development of children and youth. Typical areas of employment include:

• public administration,

• research focused public and private institutions,

• academia, and

• data science.

Courses include:

• Prerequisite Basic Quantitative Methods

• Prerequisite Social Issues and Welfare State

• Stata

• Comparative Welfare State

• Demography

• Multivariate Methods

• Social Inequality(in English

• Longitudinal and Multilevel Modelling

• Prevention and Intervention