Anna-Maria Isola

Helsinki Area, Finland Finland

Senior Researcher at National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

Researcher, lecturer, writer, practical worker, and a person with rich imagination Academic interests: Qualitative research methods (rhetoric, narratives, qualitative follow up studies) Participation, inclusion and exclusion, poverty, equality and inequality, subjective welfare (space of experiences and horizon of expectations) family and population policies Professional interests: Project design and development, social innovations, democratic education, creative community work Personal interests: Empowering photography, (aerial) yoga, boundary crossings, play and imagination, fairies and elves PhD in Social Policy (2013) Thesis: Gender and Fertility Rhetoric in Russia and Finland 199...