Memornet — The Finnish Research Education Network on the Society’s Memory Functions

The Network’s goal is to enhance research education in the field of society’s memory functions and memory organizations. Due to last decades’ technical and social changes the perspectives of the different memory organizations, libraries, archives and museums, and the disciplines working in this field, such as information studies, archival studies and museology, have come closer to each other. Separate traditions are amalgamating. Digitization changes practices and compels to adapt a new vision in research.  

Interested Finnish memory organizations and university departments have decided to create a cooperative network, which they have called Memornet. It was formally established in November 2007.  The network functions as a link between memory organizations, university departments, researchers,  supervisors and doctoral students. It organizes research-related events, summer schools and doctoral seminars. 

Practical arrangements are taken care of by the Department of Information Studies, University of Tampere.

In April 2011 the Finnish Academy granted six doctoral students' positions to the Doctoral Program of Memornet for the years 2012-2015.

You can get an idea of the goals of the Memornet Doctoral Program from the Introduction of the application document. More information on the activities of the Doctoral Program will be announced in the Fall of 2011.

Further information: prof. Janne Vilkuna (chair, E-mail janne.vilkuna[at]jyu.fi), lecturer Ilkka Mäkinen (coordinator, ilkka.makinen[at]uta.fi), asssistant professor Marjo Rita Valtonen (marjo.valtonen[at]uta.fi), assistant professor Pekka Henttonen (pekka.henttonen[at]uta.fi)