Aino Luotonen

My research interests include personal relationships, intimacies, kinship, temporality, qualitative methods and sociological theory. I work as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the project Networks of reproduction in the complex planetary future: Intimacy, companionship and family building in Finland, Portugal, and Scotland (NETREP) that investigates young adults’ thoughts and plans concerning family and intimate life in the context of social, economic, and environmental crises. The project is funded by Kone Foundation. My background is in Sociology and I am Dr. of Social Sciences  (from University of Helsinki).

I am a member of the editorial board in Perheyhteiskunta.fi, a Finnish blog popularising scientific research on families and intimate lives. I am also a board member of Finnish Society for Research on Families and Personal Relationships.