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Aleksi Karhula serves as a Collegium Researcher at the INVEST Research Flagship Centre and Docent at the Department of Social Research, University of Turku. He currently holds a Turku Institute of Advanced Studies (TIAS) Collegium Fellowship for the project "Bowling in Separate Alleys? The Harmful Forms and Consequences of Increasing Socioeconomic Segregation (BOSA)" and leads 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)".
His research centers on urban inequality dynamics using Finnish register data, with particular focus on how socioeconomic residential segregation shapes life trajectories and educational outcomes. Karhula employs longitudinal methodologies to analyze residential mobility patterns across life stages, examining their consequences for income stability, neighborhood disadvantage, and cross-national welfare state variations. His work bridges urban geography, sociology, and social policy through innovative register-based approaches.
Recent publications reveal consistent thematic development in residential segregation research, increasingly incorporating life course perspectives and cross-national comparisons. His 2021-2025 output demonstrates methodological sophistication in register data analysis while expanding from Finnish urban contexts to European welfare state comparisons.
Scientific recognition includes:
- TIAS Collegium Fellowship
Karhula secures significant research funding through his PI roles in the SOSE and BOSA projects, which investigate segregation's impact on educational disadvantages and life course outcomes. As a Docent, he supervises graduate research in social stratification and urban studies, though specific advisees aren't documented. His work contributes to policy discussions on urban inequality through the Turku Urban Research Programme.
He operates within the INVEST Research Flagship Centre ecosystem, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams focused on well-being research, and contributes to the Turku Urban Research Programme's mission of addressing urban sustainability challenges through evidence-based analysis.
