Teemu Kemppainen (PHD) works as a Senior Lecturer in Urban Geography. He obtained his PHD in 2017 from the University of Helsinki. The thesis examined social order and subjective insecurity in a residential context, especially in the Finnish Post-WWII housing estates. His research interests include:
- welfare and well-being as contextual phenomena
- housing studies
- neighbourhoods and housing estates
- segregation, social mix and threshold theories
- immigration as an urban studies and sociological topic
- the welfare state and social policy
- unemployment
- power and values
- transnational health service use and complementary therapies
- sociological theory, especially Durkheim and Weber
- survey methods
- regression analysis; e.g. spatial models and multi-level analysis
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