Marjo Kolehmainen
marjo.kolehmainen@utu.fi +358 29 450 3354 +358 50 470 8618 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2949-2638 |
intimacy; affect; more-than-human; socio-material practices; technology; gender; sexuality; mental health; well-being
I am Academy Research Fellow and the PI of the project Networked Care: Intimate Matters in Online Mental Health Care (NetCare), funded by the Research Council of Finland (decision no. 356256) 2023-2027.
Prior to my current affliation, I have examined e.g. intergenerational touching relations; relationship and sex counselling in Finland; and the role of technology during the Covid-19 pandemic as experienced by psychotherapists and other therapy and counselling professionals in Finland. I have also acted as a Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies.
Project description (NetCare):
By exploring online mental health support in Finland, the project produces novel knowledge on how technology provides care. The project widens the scope of feminist research on digital intimacies to online mental healthcare, opening up a novel field of research. It simultaneously examines mental vulnerabilities and digital vulnerabilities, analysing how vulnerabilities align with e.g. gender, sexuality, class, age and ethnicity, but it also consideres new digital divides and their impact on mental healthcare. The data comprises interviews, online discussion threads, promotional materials and newspaper artices, and tools provided by both conventional textual analysis and by new materialist inquiry will be used as analysis methods.The site of the project is the University of Turku, and the research team comprises the PI and two postdoctoral researchers. The results will be useful in improving mental health care, and the project contributes to sustainable mental health policy.
- Affective capitalism and the (new) entrepreneurial mood : Slush as a field configuring event (2024)
- European Journal of Cultural Studies
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Vibrant Screens : Remote therapy and counselling through the lens of digital materiality (2024)
- Health
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Affective intensities of single lives: An alternative account of highs and lows of everyday life (2022)
- Sociology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Affective Intimacies (2022) Kolehmainen Marjo, Lahti Annukka, Lahad Kinneret
(Editorship of a scientific special issue, book or conference proceedings (C2)) - Intimate Technology? Teletherapies in the era of COVID-19 (2022) Affective Intimacies Kolehmainen Marjo
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Introduction (2022) Affective Intimacies Kolehmainen Marjo, Lahti Annukka, Lahad Kinneret
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3))