Finland
Emilia Palonen is Senior Lecturer in political science at the University of Helsinki. She returned to her native country after studies in the UK (MA and PhD, Essex; BA London, UCL) and fellowships in Central Europe. Currently she develops comparative and theoretical perspectives on democracy, populism and nationalism at the Academy of Finland funded Mainstreaming Populism consortium in 2017-2021. She is the founding editor of the prize-winning online magazine of Finnish PSA, Politiikasta. She comments on politics nationally and internationally, and engages with science policy and academic publishing at the FPSA and Finnish League of Learned Societies' boards