Residency artists and researchers Research Sinikka Selin MA, doctoral student What are you going to be when you grow up? Young people’s work-related visions of the future in the 1950s and 1960s I am a historian and currently working on my dissertation the subject of which is young people in the 1950s to 1960s and their work-related visions of the future. The dissertation presents and analyses the expectations, hopes, fears and plans of young people who at the age of 15 to 16 are finishing their compulsory education. The decades after the war were a time of great social transformation which had a big influence on how young people viewed what was possible for them and what was expected of them. I incorporate both macro levels of society, e.g. by inspecting the influence of social class, the parallel school system and gender, and a grass roots perspective by focusing on the youths as individuals. I have been able to carry out my research with the support of Kone Foundation for a few years now and this two-month intensive work period affords me an excellent opportunity to focus on writing and working on my manuscript.