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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

Researchgate
Google Scholar
INVEST Longitudinal Study on Well-Being
cv_short_Koivula.pdf
Publications_Koivula.pdf
ORCID

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 Tampere University.

I currently work 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 the Principal Investigator of 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 held several teaching positions and also served as Head of the Economic Sociology Unit for two years.


Teaching

My current teaching profile centers on PhD supervision and the development of research proposals. I am responsible for INWS0018 Research Proposal Workshop. I supervise nine PhD researchers whose topics range from political attitudes to subjective well-being. 



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, such as 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
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli 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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