Johanna Peltoniemi
Official title: Senior Researcher
Tel. +358 29 524 8107
E-mail: [email protected]
Expertise
- Welfare state and social security
- Transnationalism
- Cross-country comparison
- Quantitative research
Primary duties
- Research on welfare state and social policy systems
- Research on social security innovations
Education
- 2018, Doctor of Social Sciences, Political Science, University of Tampere
- 2012, Master of Arts, History, University of Tampere
- 2011, Master of Social Sciences, Political Science, University of Tampere
- 2011, Bachelor of Social Sciences, Political Science, University of Tampere
Professional background
- 2022– Senior Researcher, THL
- 2018–2022 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki
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2014–2018 Doctoral Student, University of Tampere
Language skills
- Finnish (native)
- English (excellent)
- Swedish (good)
- Italian (good)
- Spanish (fair)
Current projects
- 2021–2023, Mobile EU Electorates and Democratic Participation
- 2019–2023, Politiskt beteende i den finlandsvenska diasporan
- 2018– Manufacturing 4.0
Previous projects
- 2019–2021, Facilitating Electoral Participation from Abroad
- 2020 , Manufacturing 4.0 Strategies for Social Policy Adoption
- 2017–2019, Elections GO!
Publications and research
Dissertation
Peltoniemi, J. (2018) On the borderlines of voting. Finnish emigrants’ transnational identities and political participation. Doctoral dissertation. Tampere: Tampere University Press.
Scientific research articles
- Peltoniemi, J., Ciornei, I. & Himmelroos, S. (2022) Editorial: Voting from abroad, Frontiers in Political Science 3.
- Nemčok, M. & Peltoniemi, J. (2021) Distance and trust: An examination of the two opposing factors impacting adoption of postal voting among citizens living abroad. Political Behavior.
- Himmelroos, S. & Peltoniemi, J. (2021) External voting rights from a citizen perspective – Comparing resident and non-resident citizens’ attitudes towards external voting. Scandinavian Political Studies 44(4), 463-486.
- Wass, H., Peltoniemi, J., Weide, M. & Nemčok, M. (2021) Signed, sealed and delivered with trust: Non-resident citizens’ experiences of newly adopted postal voting. Frontiers in Political Science 3, 83-97.
- Peltoniemi, J. (2018) Transnational political engagement and emigrant voting. Journal of Contemporary European Studies 26(4), 392-410.
- Peltoniemi, J. (2016) Overseas voters and representational deficit: Regional representation challenged by emigration. Representation 52(4), 295-309.
- Peltoniemi, J. (2016) Distance as a cost of cross-border voting (pdf 137kt). Research on Finnish Society 9, 19-32.
Book contributions
Peltoniemi, J. (2019) From mother to emigrant? Perspectives to dual citizenship, in Leinonen, J. & Kostiainen, A. (eds) Transnational Finnish Mobilities: Proceedings of FinnForum XI, 236-253, Research 3, Turku: Migration Institute of Finland
Edited works
- Umpierrez de Reguero, S. & Peltoniemi, J. (toim.) [forthcoming] Diaspora Political Participation toward the Homeland Arena across Europe.
- Umpierrez de Reguero, S., Finn, V. & Peltoniemi, J. (toim.) [forthcoming] The Missing Links of Im/Emigrant Enfranchisement.
- Peltoniemi, J., Ciornei, I. & Himmelroos, S. (toim.) (2022) Voting from abroad. Special Issue in Frontiers in Political Science 3.
Reports
Peltoniemi, J. (2018) Report in political participation of mobile EU citizens: Finland, RSCAS Publications, no. 2018/21, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Firenze: European University Institute.
