Professor Åsa von Schoultz (née Bengtsson) holds the Swedish Chair in Political Science at the University of Helsinki since 2017. Her research targets citizens’ and elites’ perceptions on democratic processes, and electoral competition within parties. Other fields of interest are voting behavior, political participation and political behavior of minorities. 

von Schoultz has extensive experience of survey research among citizens and elites. She has been a member of the Finnish National Election Study (FNES) since 2003; she has run the European Values Study in Sweden (2017), and among Swedish speakers in Finland (2018). She is also the PI of the Finnish Candidats Survey (since 2011). von Schoultz is currently a steering-group member of the Comparative Candidate Survey (CCS), and Finnish National Election study (FNES), and she is the chair of the advisory board of the Swedish National Election Study. 

Ongoing research projects (PI):

- Intraparty competition: The neglected dimension of electoral competion (IntraComp), funded by the Academy of Finland for the period 2018-2022.

- EVS Svenskfinland. The collection of European Values Study among swedishspeakers in Finland. Funded by The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland (SLS) for the period 2018-2019. 

- EVS Sverige. The collection of European Values Study in Sweden. Funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences) for the period 2016-2019.