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Lotta Haikkola

Academy Research Fellow
+358 44 4165 300
lotta.haikkola@youthresearch.fi

I am Academy Research Fellow with a grant from the Research Council of Finland. I joined the Finnish Youth Research Society in 2018 after working at the University of Helsinki and the National Institute for Health and Welfare. I hold a PhD in sociology from the University of Helsinki.

My research interests include sociology of work, sociology of youth, migration studies and ethnographic methods. Further, my expertise covers sociological research on activation and workfare policies and youth unemployment. My current project Logistics at work. Young men moving goods in warehouses and transportation services explores the often invisible work done in the logistics sector. My other project Surviving precarious work conditions: work ethos and worker subjectivity in restaurant work explores young people’s experiences of working in the expanding hospitality sector. Previously, I led the research projects Review of the research on minority young people’s sense of security and Examining the Obligation from the Viewpoint of Register Data, Public Employment Services, Educational Institutions and Young People.

I am one of the two editors-in-chief of the publication series of the Finnish Youth Research Society and member of the board of the network RN30 Youth and Generation of the European Sociological Association (2024-2026).

I am also a pioneer in popularising sociological knowledge as the founder and editor-in-chief of the sociological journal Ilmiö.

All my publications can be found in my profile in Google Scholar

Before my current position, I worked as research manager at the Finnish Youth Research Society where I was responsible for the coordination of our research profile and managing The Annual Youth Barometer Survey and the biannual Youth Living Conditions Study. In 2017-2019, I was the editor-in-chief of Nuorisotutkimus (Finnish Journal of Youth Research) and in 2020-2024 a member of the editorial board of the Nordisk Tidskrift för Undomsforskning.

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