Research output per year
Research output per year
PL 3 (Fabianinkatu 33)
00014
Finland
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: 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 › Anthology or special issue › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › Scientific
Mäkinen, V. (Project manager), Toiviainen Rø, S. (Participant), Tikka, K. (Participant), Posti, M. (Participant), Korpiola, M. (Participant), Toropainen, V. P. (Participant), Palmén, R. (Participant) & Haara, H. (Participant)
01/09/2020 → 31/08/2024
Project: Research Council of Finland: Academy Project
Saarinen, R. (Principal Investigator), Mäkinen, V. (Participant), Dunderberg, I. (Participant), Pihlström, S. (Participant), Kukkonen, T. (Participant), Appelqvist, H. (Participant), Haara, H. (Participant), Hakola, R. (Participant), Heimola, M. (Participant), Hellqvist, E. (Participant), Hietamäki, M. (Participant), Huttunen, N. (Participant), Kahlos, M. (Participant), Koskinen, H. J. (Participant), Kaukua, J. (Participant), Lehtipuu, O. (Participant), Luomanen, P. (Participant), Mattila, J. (Participant), McKeown, P. I. (Participant), Koistinen, T. (Participant), Kovalainen, H. (Participant), Kärkkäinen, P. (Participant), Miroshnikov, I. (Participant), Moisio, O.-P. (Participant), Paakkinen, I. (Participant), Palmén, R. (Participant), Riggs, T. (Participant), Ruotsala, A. (Participant), Salminen, J. (Participant), Savonius-Wroth, S.-J. (Participant), Toivanen, J. (Participant), Rafael, A.-L. (Participant), Tuominen, M. (Participant), Visala, A. (Participant), Tervahauta-Helin, U. K. (Participant), Pöykkö, P.-M. (Participant), Yli-Karjanmaa, S. (Participant), Faucher, N. (Participant), Toiviainen Rø, S. (Participant), Posti, M. (Participant), Rauhala, M. (Participant), Alanko, V. (Participant), Launonen, L. (Participant) & Gehlin, S. (Participant)
01/01/2014 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research project
Mäkinen, V. (Participant), Pihlström, S. (Project manager), Knuuttila, S. (Participant), Saarinen, R. (Participant), Pessi, A. B. (Participant), Kivistö, S. (Participant), Heinämaa, S. (Participant), Peräkylä, A. (Participant) & Hänninen, J. (Participant)
20/11/2013 → 20/02/2014
Project: Research project
Mäkinen, V. (Principal Investigator)
01/09/2012 → 31/12/2015
Project: Research Council of Finland: Academy Project
Mäkinen, V. (Project manager), Varkemaa, J. (Participant), Posti, M. (Participant), Paakkinen, I. (Participant), Tolonen, M. (Participant), Haara, H. (Participant), Slotte, P. (Participant), Decock, W. (Participant) & Robinson, J. (Participant)
01/09/2012 → 31/08/2015
Project: Research project
Mäkinen, V. (Recipient), 1997
Prize: Prizes and awards
Mäkinen, V. (Recipient), 2006
Prize: Prizes and awards
Mäkinen, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Mäkinen, V. (Chair of organizing committee)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Mäkinen, V. (Speaker: Presenter)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Mäkinen, V. (Speaker: Presenter)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Mäkinen, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
29/04/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
13/02/2024
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
01/12/2023
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
01/12/2023
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media