Research output per year
Research output per year
PL 4 (Vuorikatu 3)
00014
Finland
PL 4 (Vuorikatu 3)
HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
Finland
Research activity per year
Virpi Mäkinen is Senior Lecturer of theological and social ethics in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki. She holds a title of Docent in theological ethics and philosophy of religion at the same university. As PI, she leads an academy research project "At the Frontiers of Humanity: Extreme Necessity in the History of Ethics, Law and Politics, 300–1600" (2020–2024). Mäkinen is a member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and acts as a member in several editorial and academic boards in Finland and other countries.
Mäkinen has been a visiting scholar in Toronto (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies) and in USA (Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure University), Postodoctoral Researcher and Academy Research Fellow in the Academy of Finland), and Core Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. She has led an academy research project “Rights and Needs in Medieval and Early Modern Politics” (2012–2015) and acted as a Vice Director in two Centre of Excellence (funded by the Academy of Finland): “Philosophical Psychology, Morality and Politics” (2008–2013) and “Reason and Religious Recognition” (2014–2019). In both projects she also led research team in medieval and/or early modern thought.
In her research, Mäkinen has focused on the early history of individual rights, especially property and minority rights; see e.g. Property Rights in the Late Medieval Discussion on Franciscan Poverty (Peeters 2001); Transformations in Medieval and Early Modern Rights Discourse (Springer 2005, co-ed. Petter Korkman), Lutheran Reformation and the Law (Brill 2006), and Rights at the Margins (Brill 2020, co-ed. Jonathan Robinson, Pamela Slotte and Heikki Haara).
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General public
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
01/09/2022 → 31/12/2025
Project: Research project
Mäkinen, V., Palmén, R., Toiviainen Rø, S., Posti, M. & Haara, H.
01/09/2020 → 31/08/2024
Project: Research project
01/09/2020 → 31/08/2024
Project: Research project
Saarinen, R., Mäkinen, V., Dunderberg, I., Pihlström, S., Kukkonen, T., Appelqvist, H., Haara, H., Hakola, R., Heimola, M., Hellqvist, E., Hietamäki, M., Huttunen, N., Kahlos, M., Koskinen, H. J., Kaukua, J., Lehtipuu, O., Luomanen, P., Mattila, J., McKeown, P. I., Koistinen, T., Kovalainen, H., Kärkkäinen, P., Miroshnikov, I., Moisio, O., Paakkinen, I., Palmén, R., Riggs, T., Ruotsala, A., Salminen, J., Savonius-Wroth, S., Toivanen, J., Rafael, A., Tuominen, M., Visala, A., Tervahauta-Helin, U. K., Pöykkö, P., Yli-Karjanmaa, S., Faucher, N., Toiviainen Rø, S., Posti, M., Rauhala, M., Alanko, V., Launonen, L. & Gehlin, S.
01/01/2014 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research project
Mäkinen, V., Varkemaa, J., Posti, M., Paakkinen, I., Tolonen, M., Haara, H., Slotte, P., Decock, W. & Robinson, J.
01/09/2012 → 31/08/2015
Project: Research project
Mäkinen, Virpi (Recipient), 1997
Prize: Prizes and awards
Mäkinen, Virpi (Recipient), 2006
Prize: Prizes and awards
Virpi Mäkinen (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Virpi Mäkinen (Chair of organizing committee)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Virpi Mäkinen (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Virpi Mäkinen (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts
Virpi Mäkinen (Supervisor)
Activity: Examination types › Supervisor or co-supervisor of doctoral thesis
21/12/2021
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
03/01/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
17/10/2017
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
27/06/2017
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media