Riitta Jallinoja feels concern for young researchers. The demand that everyone write their doctoral dissertation and create a career at the youngest possible age is not necessarily compatible with their life situation and everyday life. Some want to found a family at a younger age and embark on a research career only after they have some experience of life. For Jallinoja, the important thing is a good research plan, not the researcher's age. Of course there are some limits to it, but it is tragic if you are considered too old to start a research career at 30.
Some people mature more slowly than others.
A research career in the social sciences demands an enormous amount of work. She finds it strange that the university community stresses plurality in some respects and completely ignores it in others. It seems that plurality and the individual characteristics of disciplines are given space only in solemn speeches, not in science administration. The Academy of Finland has made its research grant policy more stringent, and so has the university. This trend does not take research in the right direction.