Joonas Uotinen
Master Degree in Specialized Economic Analysis
jauoti@utu.fi |
Subjective Well-Being; eudaimonia; Buddhism; Ken Wilber; suicides; social capital; indigenous happiness conceptions; comparison of western scientific ontologies with indigenous ontologies; economic theory.
Culturally sensitive, ecologically sustainable, global well-being. The research contains happiness philosophy, buddhism, statistics on SWB and qualitative research on indigenous peoples.
After my Bachelor's in theoretical physics and being keenly interested in international development, I did my masters on the subject in Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. However, born and raised in Finland, one of the most developed countries in the world, I was faced with the question: why don't people seem very happy and should this be the aim of development? Thus, I began researching happiness.
Having started my research on happiness in 2013, I have tried to read a variety of different viewpoints on the topic and I have immersed myself into alternative communities and tried to test results and happiness philosophies in practice. With the rising consciousness on the ecological limits of the planet and with my degree in natural sciences, I have felt the necessity of trying to combine ecological sustainability with happiness. In my research I use and I have used both large quantitative and self-collected qualitative datasets. The qualitative dataset is on the happiness and well-being conceptions of some of the indigenous peoples in Central India, collected through structured, thematic and in-depth interviews, and it has been combined with two other independently collected qualitative datasets on the conceptions of ethics and the experienced ontologies amongst those peoples. Those two other datasets were collected by MSc Tikli Loivaranta, University of Turku, Finland, and MPhil Arunopol Seal, Ambedkar University, India.
I have taught and I am keen to teach areas of my expertise including basic statistics.
- Nonhuman Well-Being is a Part of Happiness and Well-Being Conceptions Among Central Indian Indigenous Communities (2025)
- Journal of Happiness Studies
- Research Report on the Finland in the Digital Age Round 3 Panel -survey. (2020) Aki Koivula, Emmi Vainio, Jukka Sivonen, Joonas Uotinen
- Integral Perspective on Happiness (2015)
- Approaching Religion