Work Package 2: Students' learning and well-being in home and school contexts before, during, and post-pandemic
This sub study examines children’s, young people’s and their parents’ experiences of relationships, well-being and learning during the COVID-19-pandemic. We want to hear the so-called “silent voices,” that is, the most vulnerable children, young people and families. Silent voices are heard in close cooperation with third sector organisations. In work package 2, we also find out what kind of individual and environmental factors strengthen resilience, i.e., the ability to recover from adversity during the COVID-19-pandemic. In addition, we will look at how children and young people's right to access education and support based on individual needs has been realised. Building on research data, we will develop recommendations for the development of distance learning and flexible solutions. This is done in close cooperation with third sector organisations, education actors and parent networks.
Research group

Eija Pakarinen
PI of the work package
Associate Professor, University of Jyväskylä
Expertise: Well-being of children, young people, families and teachers
Noona Kiuru
Vice PI of work package
Associate Professor, University of Jyväskylä
Expertise: Well-being of children, young people and families
Niina Junttila
Professor, Universities of Turku and Jyväskylä
Senior adviser for education, Finnish National Agency for Education
Silent voices -research, communications
Expertise: Well-being of children and young people, social relations and social isolation
Sanni Pöysä
Postdoctoral researcher, University of Jyväskylä
Expertise: Teachers' well-being at work and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on it, students' experiences of learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, parents' experiences of children's schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic, interaction between teacher and students
Katja Upadyaya
Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Helsinki
Expertise: Student engagement, academic motivation, research methodology, and lifelong learning, teacher-student and parent-child interaction, and teachers’ and principals’ well-being
Matilda Sorkkila
Senior Researcher, Docent in Psychology of Well-being, University of Jyväskylä
Expertise: Parental well-being and burnout during the COVID-19-pandemic
Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen
Director of EduRESCUE project
Professor of Education, Vice Head of the Department of Teacher Education (research), Adjunct Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Jyväskylä
Professor of Educational Psychology, Stavanger University
Expertise: The well-being of pupils, teachers, principals and schools, resilience and recovery from the pandemic, catching up the learning loss, the future challenges facing the teacher and principal training
Venla Panula
Project researcher, University of Jyväskylä
Doctoral researcher, University of Turku
Silent voices study
Expertise: Loneliness, depression, social phobia and anxiety, psychosocial well-being, adolescence, parenthood, school health care, statistical methods and structural equation modeling
Saara Ylisaukko-oja
Project Researcher, Doctoral Student, University of Turku
Expertise: Children's rights
Nelli Lyyra
Senior Lecturer, University of Jyväskylä
Expertise: Well-being and loneliness of school-aged children
Kaisa Aunola
Professor, University of Jyväskylä
Expertise: Parenting and family relations
Anne Lakkavaara
University of Helsinki
Pekka Mertala
University of Jyväskylä
Kati Vasalampi
University of Jyväskylä