Aleksi Karhula
Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) aleksi.karhula@utu.fi +358 29 450 3022 +358 50 467 6329 Assistentinkatu 7 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/orcid.org/0000-0002-2396-7084 |
Areas of expertise
Urban studies, inequality research, register data.
Urban studies, inequality research, register data.
Biography
Research
Currently Aleksi Karhula is a Turku Institute of Advanced Studies (TIAS) collegium fellow with the project entitled "Bowling in Separate Alleys? The Harmful Forms and Consequences of Increasing Socioeconomic Segregation (BOSA)" and PI of the Turku Urban Research Programme project "The impact of increasing socioeconomic residential segregation on the accumulation of educational disadvantages and people's life courses (SOSE)".
Publications
- Divergent NO2 air pollution trends during the COVID-19 pandemic in Helsinki Metropolitan Area (2026)
- Environmental Research Communications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Housing First and the reduction of homelessness in Finland among people with substance abuse problems (2026) Beyond the Nordic Welfare State. Extending Social Investments with Interventions. Karhula, Aleksi; Ollonqvist, Joonas; Leni, Elisabetta; Niemi, Veera; Moisio, Pasi
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Changing editors, evolving journal’s identity: Insights into editorial practice (2025)
- Finnish journal of social research
(B1 Other refereed article (e.g., editorial, letter, comment) in a scientific journal) - Childhood Geographical Mobility's Role in Shaping Educational and Occupational Attainment by Age 30 in Finland (2025) McMullin, Patricia; Karhula, Aleksi; Erola, Jani
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Contributions of Residential and Income Mobility in Different Life Stages to Increasing Low-Income Rates in Suburban Neighbourhoods (2025)
- Population, Space and Place
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Insurance against risk? Cost and compensation of job loss in different welfare states (2025)
- Socio-Economic Review
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - INVEST Pitkittäistutkimus hyvinvoinnista 2024 -kyselyn tutkimusseloste (2025) Davies, Essi; Hägglund, Anna Erika; Koivula, Aki; Laaninen, Markus; Heiskala, Laura; Karhula, Aleksi
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Research Report on the first round of INVEST Longitudinal Study on Well-being (2025) Davies, Essi; Hägglund, Anna Erika; Koivula, Aki; Laaninen, Markus; Heiskala, Laura; Karhula, Aleksi
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Taking back publishing ownership for academia through diamond Open Access (2025)
- Finnish journal of social research
(B1 Other refereed article (e.g., editorial, letter, comment) in a scientific journal) - Lives in Welfare States: Life Courses, Earnings Accumulation, and Relative Living Standards in Five European Countries (2024)
- American Journal of Sociology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Socioeconomic and ethnic segregation in Finland: A multi-scale analysis of diverse urban sizes (2024)
- Cities
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Toisiolain avaamat mahdollisuudet sosiaalityön rekisteritutkimukselle (2024)
- Tutkiva Sosiaalityö
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Insurance against risk? Economic cost and compensation of job loss in different welfare states (2023) Bedük Selçuk, Fasang Anette Eva, Harkness Susan, Bastholm Andrade Stefan, Büyükkeçeci Zafer, Karhula Aleksi, Helske Satu
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Socioeconomic Background and Gene-Environment Interplay in Social Stratification across the Early Life Course (2022)
- European Sociological Review
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Geographical mobility and children's non-completion of upper secondary education in Finland and Germany: Do parental resources matter? (2021)
- British Educational Research Journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Rural-Urban Migration Pathways and Residential Segregation in the Helsinki Region (2021)
- Finnish Yearbook of Population Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Eriarvoisuuden periytyminen (2020) Eriarvoisuuden tila Suomessa 2020 Eskelinen Niko, Jani Erola, Aleksi Karhula, Lucia Ruggera, Outi Sirniö
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Left Behind? The impact of geographical mobility on children´s educational attainment in Finland and Germany (2020) Patricia McMullin, Aleksi Karhula, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Jani Erola
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Socioeconomic background and gene-environment interplay in social stratification across the early life course (2020) Jani Erola, Hannu Lehti, Tina Baier, Aleksi Karhula
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Destination as a process: Sibling similarity in early socioeconomic trajectories (2019) Karhula A, Erola J, Raab M, Fasang A
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



