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Sanna Rikala

Senior Research Fellow
Faculty of Social Sciences | Unit of Social Research
Tampere University
sanna.rikala [at] tuni.fi (sanna[dot]rikala[at]tuni[dot]fi)
+358401901344
City Centre Campus

About me

My research is inspired by the question of how people’s agency is formed and performed in varying marginalized positions of society. I identify myself as a social policy scholar drawing perspectives from the fields of governmentality studies, gender studies, youth studies, and sociology of mental health. 

I am a member of Tampere Centre for Societal Sustainability (TaSSu). Our research promotes an understanding of individuals’ and communities’ possibilities of participation and the preconditions of ecologically and socially sustainable transformations towards inclusive societies. We aim to create theoretical and empirical knowledge of inclusive social practices, needs-based democratic and social innovations, and people’s opportunities of influencing their lives, their surroundings and the society.

 

 

Responsibilities

Research, Teaching, Supervising 

Project links

Research topics

Social inequality, Social inclusion, Marginalised groups, Agency, Citizenship, Power and Governance, Occupational rehabilitation

Research fields

Social policy

Gender studies

Sociology of mental health

Latest publications

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