Kaisa Vehkalahti is Senior Lecturer at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She leads the multidisciplinary project The Future of Nordic Youth in Rural Regions: A Cross-National Qualitative Longitudinal Study in Four Nordic Countries (2022–2026). Her research interests include rural youth, qualitative longitudinal research, and history of childhood and youth.
Ingunn Marie Eriksen is Research Professor at NOVA Norwegian Social Research, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. Her primary analytical focus is on young people's diverging life chances through well-being, education, material resources, leisure time and values. Other interests include parenting, class, gender, school environment and mental health. She is the co-editor-in-chief of Nordic Journal for Youth Research.
Jeanette Østergaard is Research Professor at the Rockwool Foundation, Denmark. Her research interests are young people’s transition to adulthood as explored from the perspective of everyday life, marginality, and risk behavior (drinking and drug use), often from a longitudinal mixed methods perspective.