Meritförteckning

Career

2022-ongoing Honorary Professor in Social Epidemiology; Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland

2018 -ongoing  Professor of Social Policy (permanent), University of Helsinki, Finland

2017 Professor of Social Policy (fixed-term), University of Helsinki, Finland

2014-16 ―  University Lecturer; Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland

2014―2021 Honorary Lecturer in Social Epidemiology; Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland

2014― 2020 Visiting Professor; Research Institute of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wroclaw, Poland

2012–2014 Lecturer; School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work; and UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health (NI), Queen’s University Belfast

2011 Assistant Professor; University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty in Wroclaw

2006–2010 Research Fellow; Institute of Work, Health and Organisations (I-WHO), The University of Nottingham, UK

2005–2006 Special Lecturer; I-WHO, The University of Nottingham

2004-2006 Post Doc Research Fellow; Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki

2003–2004 Visiting Research Fellow; I-WHO, The University of Nottingham

2002-2003 Research Fellow; Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

Other esteem markers:

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2013-)

Senior Fellow; Institute of Mental Health, The University of Nottingham (2008- )

Member; International Society for Social Capital and Health (2010- )

Language skills                

Finnish (native), English (bilingual/fluent), Swedish (satisfactory), Polish (basics)

Information om forskning och undervisning

Dr Anne Kouvonen is Professor of Social Policy. She is also Honorary Professor in Social Epidemiology in the Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland).

Anne was one of the PIs of the SRC funded DigiIN project (2019-2025). She is also a Senior Researcher at the Research Council of Finland funded Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care - Migration, Care and Ageing (MICA) research group (https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/migration-care-and-ageing).  Anne’s research focuses on the social determinants of health. In particular, she has been investigating employee mental health and socioeconomic inequalities of health. Her other current interests regard ageing; migrant health; digitalisation and social inclusion of migrants. Her research involves the application of social epidemiological methods and administrative record linkage as well as large-scale prospective survey designs and qualitative research.