Ria-Maria Adams, BA MA
Ria-Maria Adams, BA MA
PhD candidate, uni:docs fellow
Contact Details
Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien
NIG, 4. Stock
Raum: A0404
T: +43-1-4277-49511
E-Mail: ria.adams@univie.ac.at
Sprechstunden
Please contact: ria.adams@univie.ac.at
Research Focus Areas
- Anthropology of Education
- Migration
- Identity
- Youth Well-being
- Child-centred Research Methods
Short Biography
Ria graduated from the University of Vienna with a Master´s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology early 2017. Currently, she is a PhD student and uni:docs fellow at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna, supervised by Peter Schweitzer and co-supervised by Florian Stammler. Her research focuses on challenges of cultural adaptation processes in Finnish Lapland from the perspective of immigrated youth. She has been contributing to the project: 'Live, Work or Leave? Youth – wellbeing and the viability of (post) extractive Arctic industrial cities in Finland and Russia' at the designated Finnish field-sites of Pyhäjoki and Kemijärvi.
Current Affiliation
Current research affliation with the Arctic Centre/University of Lapland in Rovaniemi (Finland):
´Live, Work or Leave? Youth – wellbeing and the viability of (post) extractive Arctic industrial cities in Finland and Russia´