Jari Martikainen
Associate Professor
Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies
[email protected] | +358 50 516 0259
I work as an Associate Professor in Social Psychology at the University of Eastern Finland. In addition, I hold the title of Docent in Social Psychology at the University of Helsinki. My interdisciplinary research focuses on the theory of social representations, discursive approaches, visual and social representations of teachership and leadership, migration politics, populist communication as well as visual, multimodal and arts-based research methods. Currently, I lead a 4-year research projected Intergroup relations and local encounters – Immigrant and Finnish young people’s perceptions of each other, their lives and future in multicultural Savo (funded by Kone Foundation).
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Bridging In-Betweennesses: Social Representations of Place Among Middle Eastern Youth in Eastern Finland
Farahani, Hadi; Martikainen, Jari, 2026, Tampereen yliopisto. Abstract -
Children's Agency in Finding Happiness in the 'Happiest Country in the World': A Collaborative Drawing and Storytelling Case Study
De Paola, Jennifer; Hakokongas, Eemeli J.; Martikainen, Jari; Pyy, Iida, 2026, Children and society, 40, 4, 778-789. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Drawn Futures: How Finland's Diverse Youth Visualise Tomorrow
Paola, Jennifer De; Martikainen, Jari; Farahani, Hadi; Lötjönen, Katja; Rovamo, Helena, 2026, Journal of community and applied social psychology, 36, 2, e70253. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Exploring Adolescents’ Perceptions of Cultural Groups: Contents, Structures, and Dynamics of Social Representations of Finnish, Middle Eastern, and Ukrainian People
Lötjönen, Katja; Martikainen, Jari; Farahani, Hadi, 2026, Journal of cross-cultural psychology, [Epub ahead of print 22 June 2026], 1-27. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Performing populist leadership online: Discursive and multimodal construction of a shared social identity
Jaakkola, Jenni; Sakki, Inari; Hakoköngäs, Eemeli; Martikainen, Jari, 2026, British journal of social psychology, 65, 2, e70080. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Social Representation and Emotions in the Context of Dance Observation
Martikainen, Jari; Pohjola, Hanna, 2026, Culture and psychology, [Epub ahead of print 23 Aug 2026], 1-21. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Social representations of intercultural encounters among young people from Finland, the Middle East, and Ukraine
Rovamo, Helena; Martikainen, Jari; Paola, Jennifer De; Farahani, Hadi; Lötjönen, Katja, 2026, International journal of intercultural relations, 116, 102508. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Unsettled Class: Finnish Young People Navigating Social Class and Classed Identities
Lötjönen, Katja; Martikainen, Jari, 2026, Journal of community and applied social psychology, 36, 4, e70300. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
‘They Don't Seem That Interested in Us’: Young Immigrants' Construction of Discursive Barriers to Intergroup Contact With the Majority Population
Rovamo, Helena; Martikainen, Jari; Farahani, Hadi; De Paola, Jennifer; Lötjönen, Katja, 2026, Journal of community and applied social psychology, 36, 6, e70330. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Analysing subject positions in multimodal populist communication
Pettersson, Katarina; Martikainen, Jari, 2025, Sakki, Inari, Qualitative Approaches to the Social Psychology of Populism: Unmasking Populist Appeal, 76-91. A3 Book section, Chapters in research books

