Research output per year
Research output per year
Academy of Finland Research Fellow
Research activity per year
Outi Hakola is a docent in Area and Cultural Studies (University of Helsinki) and a docent in societal media studies (University of Turku). Currently, she works as a university lecturer in qualitative research methods at University of Eastern Finland. Her expertise includes cultural studies, film and television studies, death studies, and humour studies. She is expert in mediatisation of death and dying, cultural theories, narratology, and art criticism.
Her background is in film, television and literature studies. She has Master of Arts degrees in both Media Studies (2005) and Comparative Literature (2003) from the University of Turku, where she defended her dissertation, Rhetoric of Death and Generic Addressing of Viewers in American Living Dead Films, in 2011. After her PhD she worked at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies as a programme coordinator for Human Mortality project (2011-2013), at the Department of Radio-Television-Film (University of Texas at Austin, United States) as visiting researcher (2013-2014), and as a university lecturer in North American Studies (Area and Cultural Studies, University of Helsinki, 2014-2017). Most recently, she worked as a Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the Area and Cultural Studies (University of Helsinki, 2017-2022). Her research project, Constructing Good Death, deals with documentary films on end-of-life issues.
Area and Cultural Studies, Principal Investigator, University of Helsinki
Award Date: 26 Oct 2015
Title of Docent, University of Turku
13 Aug 2018 → …
Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
01/09/2017 → 31/08/2022
Project: Research project
Hakola, O., Salminen, J., Turpeinen, J., Winberg, O. H. B. & Korpijärvi, A.
01/01/2018 → 31/12/2020
Project: University of Helsinki Three-Year Research Project
Korhonen, A., Rossi, L., Hakola, O. & Bottà, G.
01/01/2016 → 31/12/2021
Project: Research project
Outi Hakola (Visiting researcher)
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Academic visit to other institution
Outi Hakola (Editor in chief)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of research journal
Outi Hakola (Chair)
Activity: Membership types › Membership or other role in national/international committee, council, board
Outi Hakola (Speaker: Presenter)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Outi Hakola (Speaker: Presenter)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
06/05/2022
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media