Aki Koivula
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Political trust, Political attitudes, Political Participation, Political Parties, Digital interaction and participation; Social networks; Social Trust; Media consumption; Longitudinal and Experimental Survey methodology
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I am a docent in Economic Sociology at the University of Turku and a docent in Political Science at the Tampere University.
I am currently working as a Senior Researcher at the INVEST Flagship, where I lead a research group focused on implementing the INVEST Longitudinal Survey on Well-Being.
From 2020 to 2023, I led the KRIME research group, which examined the social impacts of the pandemic. I am also actively involved in several domestic and international research networks. I currently serve as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Finnish Journal of Social Research.
Before joining INVEST, I served several years in different teaching positions, being also as head of the Economic Sociology Unit for two years.
My research focuses on citizens' well-being and their engagement with state institutions within the context of societal change. In particular, I have studied the drivers and consequences of political trust, as well as the impact of digital technology on human behaviour and interaction. I have published extensively in leading academic journals, including the European Political Science Review, Sociology, Social Science & Medicine, and New Media & Society.
- INWS0014 Social Inequality
- Research report on the Finland in the digital age -surveyPuolueiden rakenteet ja jäsenistön verkostot (2018) Jukka Sivonen, Aki Koivula, Arttu Saarinen, Teo Keipi
- (2018)
- Poliittiset kuplatTieteessä tapahtuu
- Trust and Privacy in Messaging (2018)
- IADIS International Journal on Www/Internet
- (2018) Proceedings of the 16th International Conference e-Society 2018 Jukka Vuorinen, Aki Koivula, Ilkka Koiranen
- A deeper look at party members – assessing members’ and supporters’ social structure. Research on Finnish Society (2017)
- Research On Finnish SocietyTotuudenjälkeinen aika : Helsingin Sanomain Säätiön blogi
- (2017) Aki Koivula, Ringa Sirppiniemi, Ilkka Koiranen, Janna Oksanen
- Does party identification associate with consumer preferences?
Analyzing Finnish consumers in 2009 and 2014 (2017)- International Journal of Consumer Studies
- Do mail and web surveys yield similar results when examining attitudes towards immigrants? (2017)
- Research papers in economic sociologyTurun Sanomat
- Päivystävällä dosentilla on painavaa asiaa – ei ainakaan keskustan ja perussuomalaisten kannattajien mielestä (2017)
- Poliittiset kuplat
- Political party preference and social trust in four Nordic countries (2017)
- Comparative European Politics
- (2017) Ilkka Koiranen, Aki Koivula, Arttu Saarinen, Pekka Räsänen
- Puoluejäsenet suurennuslasin alla – tarkastelussa jäsenten sosiaalinen rakenne. (2017)
- Puoluejohtajaehdokkaat vertailussa: sekä demareita että demareita (2017)
- Poliittiset kuplat
- Sipilä tarjoaa töitä taloustieteen HUIPPUdosenteille (2017)
- Poliittiset kuplat
- Sosiaalisen median aktiivikeskustelijat tulevat valtavirtapolitiikan ulkopuolelta (2017)
- Totuudenjälkeinen aika : Helsingin Sanomain Säätiön blogi
- Sosiaalisessa mediassa kuuluu hyväosaisen ääni (2017)
- The different uses of social media – A population-level study in Finland (2017)
- Research papers in economic sociology
- Tutkijan on tunnettava otostutkimuksen perusteiden lisäksi myös tutkimusilmiö (2017)
- Tieteessä tapahtuu
- Vihreiden yleispuolueistuminen jatkuu (2017)
- What kind of party cleavages can be found on the basis of societal risk perceptions? A study of Finnish political party members. (2017)
- Research papers in economic sociology



