NARG

Narrative Agency Reading Group Model:
Applications for Libraries, Schools and Hospitals
(Research Council of Finland, 2025-2026)

Partners

Turku City Library

Helsinki Libraries

Finnish Association of Teachers of Finnish as a Mother Tongue (ÄOL)

Finnish Association for Biblio/Poetry Therapy

Turku University Hospital

Helsinki University Hospital, Comprehensive Cancer Center

Karolinska University Hospital, Psychooncology Unit & Comprehensive Cancer Center

Tallinn University’s School of Humanities

University of Oxford, Centre for Life-Writing

Our project partner in collaboration with Oxford University is Astrid Joutseno/Swan. She is a researcher in Counter-Narratives of Cancer project (2023-2027) and a visitor researcher in Oxford Centre for Life-Writing in the University of Oxford in 2024-2025. Joutseno researches the grief of the dying, cancer-related grief, and counter-narratives of cancer. Under her stage name Astrid Swan, Joutseno has published seven albums and two fictional literary works.