Research and thesis permits
The city continuously offers research and thesis topics from various sectors. The topics are suitable for theses of students as well as for broader research projects.
If you are planning to conduct research on the city’s operations or data, you will need a research permit.
The processing time for applications is approximately 2–3 weeks, slightly longer during holiday periods. The decision on the research permit will be sent to the applicant by email. You can apply for the permit electronically.
Research topics
Children’s Cultural Services
- Media culture and education issues
- Accessibility of arts hobbies
Contact person
Minna Haveri
Children's and Youth Cultural Services Manager
- Telephone
- 040 8696 374
Kulttuurikeskus ARX
International Resident Services
- Cooperation between integration-promoting guidance activities and employment
- Possibilities of family-centred integration work
- Work on the point of contact between the well-being services county and the city’s integration-promoting services
- Initial-stage guidance and service counselling
- Multi-channel and multilingual communication
- Supporting work-based immigration
- Developing community work in international resident services
- Promoting good population relations
- City-level literacy work or, for example, joint literacy work in early childhood education and basic education
- Quality plan for morning and afternoon activities and its implementation in activity groups
- Cooperation between disability services and the municipality in organising morning and afternoon activities as well as short-term care for pupils with disabilities
Contact person
Education Services
- Concept of learning
- Learning environments as a part of operational culture
- Need for of student welfare services/form of student welfare services
- Quality plan for morning and afternoon activities and its implementation in activity groups
- Cooperation between disability services and the municipality in organising morning and afternoon activities as well as short-term care for pupils with disabilities
Contact person
Literacy themes
- Developing the school’s reading culture using community-based methods (or reading community themes in general)
- The significance of reading for well-being
- Participatory literacy work – strengthening pupils’ agency
- The role of families in supporting literacy and reading enjoyment
- Literacy cooperation with multilingual families
- A reading diploma model that increases pupils’ agency
- Work related to the Lukukymppi literacy pilot
- Exercise themes: contact person Niina Heikkilä tel. 0407038400
Contact person
Exercise themes
- Pupils’ participation and involvement in planning physical activity during the school day (producing an operational model and guide for schools)
- Planning a campaign to involve families in promoting an active lifestyle
- for use by education services (especially promoting exercise during school travel)
Contact person
Early Childhood Education and Care
- Sustainable lifestyle in early childhood education and care
- Physical activity culture in early childhood education and care and pre-primary education
- Co-play between an educator and a child
- Co-participation between an educator and a child
- What happens during play? The diversity of play and its significance for child development
- Entrepreneurship education
- Pedagogical foundations for forming small groups in pre-primary education groups
- Equality and non-discrimination work in early childhood education and care
- Learning support in pre-primary education
- In addition, you can suggest a topic based on a topical theme or one that interests you
- Theses may be practice-based. Higher education theses may include, among others, development tasks targeted at working life.
Contact person
Marjo Tökkä
Early Childhood Education and Care Coordinator
- Telephone
- 040 7635 233
Varhaiskasvatuksen hallinto
Promotion of Well-Being and Health
Promotion of well-being and health
- Analysing and utilising the results of the Well-Being and Health Promotion Survey of Hämeenlinna, various topics according to the student’s area of interest. Timing: late 2025–early 2026.
- Factors relating to why young people are not eating school meals. Reserved for the time being.
- Children’s use of digital devices. Planning and implementing a campaign in cooperation with the well-being coordinator.
- Smaller development task/project: Reporting on the final survey of the project promoting physical activity among young adults, timing: late 2025
Substance abuse prevention work
- Guide for implementing substance abuse education for primary school teachers, for different grade levels. Reserved for the time being.
- Alcohol use among working-age people, possible areas of cooperation with employment services.
- Gambling
Contact person
Volunteer Centre Pysäkki
- Phenomena in volunteering
- Diversity of volunteering
- Sustainable volunteering
- How to engage men in befriending activities?
- The significance of Pysäkki volunteer activities in the everyday life of the elderly
In addition, the opportunity to produce various communal events
Contact person
Sanna Sisko Salminen
Senior Volunteer Coordinator
- Telephone
- 050 5140 366
Hyvinvoinnin ja terveyden edistäminen
Strategy and Information Management Services
- What impact has the Hyvin sanottu project had on Hämeenlinna’s culture of dialogue/Markku Rimpelä
- With the city’s upcoming strategy update in mind, the significance of indicators in decision-making. What indicators are visible at the level of the city council, city board, executive team, sectors, areas of responsibility and units. Which indicators guide correctly at different levels/Ismo Hannula
Contact person
Publishing research
Theses, completed research and reports are available in the online services of the educational institutions where the research was conducted and where the thesis work was supervised. Below you will find links to university archives. Archives of universities of applied sciences can be found collectively in the Theseus service.