Welcome to the home site of the Research Network of Singlehood Studies. The following text is a slightly shortened version of the launch speech by the network coordinators Marjo Kolehmainen and Annukka Lahti, originally written for the launch event that took place on December 17, 2019 in Tampere. Why Singlehood Studies? The Research Network of […]
Singlehood Studies: Kick-off event on December 16-17, 2019 Tampere University (Finland)
The event consists of three parts: 1) Public keynote talks by four distinguished scholars 2) Workshop for invited researchers who are currently conducting research on singlehood or related themes3) A launch event of the recently established Research Network of Singlehood Studies and a related panel discussion on couple-normativity. The keynote talks and the launch event […]
The Research Network of Singlehood Studies (SinglehoodS)
The number of people living without a partner is growing in Finland, in Europe, and globally. Despite this shift, there is a paucity of research on singlehood. Even though the increase in the amount of singles is reshaping institutions and producing alternative intimacies, the demographic change has not disrupted the tenacity of the couple norm […]