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Aki
Koivula

Senior Researcher, INVEST Research Flagship Centre
Docent, Faculty of Social Sciences

Contact

+358 29 450 3073
+358 50 436 7381
Assistentinkatu 7
20500
Turku

Links

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INVESTHub
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Areas of expertise

Political trust, Political attitudes, Political Participation, Political Parties, Digital interaction and participation
Social networks
Social Trust
Media consumption
Longitudinal and Experimental Survey methodology

Biography

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 planning and implementing the INVEST Longitudinal Survey on Well-Being. I am also Principal Investigator in the project ""Segregating Trust and Sleeping Suburbs: Intra-Urban Inequalities in Political Efficacy and Electoral Participation". From 2020 to 2024, I led the KRIME research group, which examined the social impacts of the pandemic. Before joining INVEST, I served several years in different teaching positions, being also as head of the Economic Sociology Unit for two years.

Teaching


  • INWS0018 Research Proposal Workshop



Research

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.

Publications

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Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED) (2025)

British Journal of Sociology
Bühlmann, Felix; Ahler-Christesen, Caroline; Cousin, Bruno; Denord, François; Houman-Ellersgaard, Christoph; Lagneau‐Ymonet Paul; Gray-Larsen, Anton; Savage, Mike; Thine, Sylvain; Young, Kevin; Araujo, Pedro; Arrigoni, Paola; Atria, Jorge; Benz, Pierre; Behr, Johanna; do Carmo-Botelho, Maria; Butt, Asif; Casanova, Pedro; Clemente‐Casinhas, Luís; Castellani, Ana; Cescon, Fabio; Dagnes, Joselle; Debska, Hanna; Delval, Anne‐Sophie; Dragun, Vitalina; Egas, Andreia; Emilsson, Kajsa; Fan, Xiaoguang; Fu, Fan; Gentile, Julia; Gomes, Orlando; Gronwald, Victoria; Heredia, Mariana; Hjellbrekke, Johannes; Honório, Jorge; Huang, Jie; Inkley, Johnathan; Johansson, Håkan; Koiranen, Ilkka; Koivula, Aki; Kuusela, Hanna; Levita, Gabriel; Ling, Chao; Lu, Peng; Lukas, Michael; Lunding, Jacob; Mahmoudzadeh, Mina; McQuade, Sean; Méndez, María Luisa; Nunes, Nuno; O'Brien, Shay; Otero, Gabriel; Pagnini, Marta; Pelfini, Alejandro; Pereira, Jéssica; Roa, Catalina; Rossier, Thierry; Marte-Lund, Saga; Santana, Dulce; Schneickert, Christian; Schimpfössl, Elisabeth; Schoenberger, François; Solipa, Izaura; Trembaczowski, Łukasz; Toft, Maren; Vale, Sofia; Vasconcelos, Pedro; Quesada-Velazco, Jorge; Warczok, Tomasz; Yu, Xinguo
(B1 Vertaisarvioimaton kirjoitus tieteellisessä lehdessä )

Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world (2025)

Nature Climate Change
Cologna, Viktoria; Meiler, Simona; Kropf, Chahan M.; Lüthi, Samuel; Mede, Niels G.; Bresch, David N.; Lecuona, Oscar; Berger, Sebastian; Besley, John; Brick, Cameron; Joubert, Marina; Maibach, Edward W.; Mihelj, Sabina; Oreskes, Naomi; Schäfer, Mike S.; Linden, Sander van der
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
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