Ria-Maria Adams, BA MA

Researcher, PhD Candidate

Contact Details

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Schottengasse 10, 1010 Vienna

T: +43-1-4277-49511
E-Mail: ria.adams@univie.ac.at

Office Hours

Please contact: ria.adams@univie.ac.at

Teaching

Current Courses: u:find

Research Focus Areas

  • Arctic Youth
  • Youth Well-being
  • Arctic Infrastructures
  • Remoteness
  • Northern Finland
  • Northern Fennoscandia

Short Biography

Currently, Ria-Maria Adams works as a researcher for the ERC funded project: https://infranorth.eu, focusing on the role of transport infrastructures in the Fennoscandian Arctic. Her PhD research is concerned with Arctic youth well-being issues and she is being supervised by Prof. Peter Schweitzer and co-supervised by Prof. Florian Stammler. Ria-Maria also contributes as a guest researcher to the Academy of Finland funded project on declining northern Finnish towns: https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/focusing-on-the-liveability-of-small-shrinking-cities

Previously, she has worked as a researcher in the project: 'Live, Work or Leave? Youth – wellbeing and the viability of (post) extractive Arctic industrial cities in Finland and Russia' and had a personal grant ‘uni:docs’ by the University of Vienna to conduct research focusing on youth well-being in Northern Finland.

Recent Publications

Current Affiliations