School of Social and Political Science

Dr Markus Ketola

Job Title

Senior Lecturer in Global and International Social Policy

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Dr Markus Ketola

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2.27

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Chrystal Macmillan Building

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15a George Square

City (Address)

Edinburgh

Country (Address)

UK

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Background

Markus Ketola is Senior Lecturer in Global and International Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. 

His background is in civil society studies, having studies the role of NGOs and communities in policymaking and delivery in various country contexts, including Turkey, UK, Finland and the EU. His first book on this theme, Civil society and Europeanisation, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. His second book, with Ciaran Hughes, Neoliberalism and the Voluntary and Community Sector, was published by Policy Press (Bristol University Press) in 2021. More recently his research has focused on the overlapping themes environmental policy, populism and storytelling. He is currently developing a new line of research about forests and forest governance that brings together these interests in researching policy, governance, civil society and storytelling.

From 2015 to 2022 he served as a member of the Social Policy Association's Executive Committee. From 2019 until 2022 he was the Honorary Secretary of the SPA. He is a co-editor of the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. 

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Ketola M, Odmalm P. The end of the world is always better in theory: The strained relationship between populist radical right parties and the state-of-crisis narrative. In Lacatus C, Lofflman G, Meibauer G, editors, Political Communication and Performative Leadership: Populism in International Politics. 1st ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2023. p. 163-177. (The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-41640-8_9
Knox C, O'Connor K, Ketola M, Carmichael P. EU PEACE Funding: The policy implementation deficit. European Policy Analysis. 2023 Aug 1;9(3):290-310. Epub 2023 May 26. doi: 10.1002/epa2.1177
McFadden P, Ross J, Byrne J, Flanagan N, Dolan R, Kirwan G et al. The role of social work education in relation to empathy and self-reported resilience: Results from Entry to Exit of Social Work Education on the Island of Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic. British Journal of Social Work. 2023 Jul;53(5):2902-2921. Epub 2023 Feb 10. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcad046
Kühner S, Hong I, Ketola M, Roumpakis A. Editors’ introduction: 10 years of the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy (2013–2022) – taking stock and charting a route forward. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. 2023 May 19;39(1):1-12. doi: 10.1017/ics.2023.6
Nordensvärd J, Ketola M, Urban F. The river runs through it: Naturalising social policy and welfare. Sustainability. 2022 Aug 22;14(16):1-18. 10415. Epub 2022 Aug 22. doi: 10.3390/su141610415
Ketola M, Nordensvard J. A theory of informal and formal social citizenship and welfare. Journal of Social Policy. 2022 Jul 15;1-20. Epub 2022 Jul 15. doi: 10.1017/S0047279422000630
Kazanoğlu N, Ketola M. Understanding the moral economy of state-civil society relationships: Islam, women’s NGOs and rights-based advocacy in Turkey. Turkish Studies. 2022;23(4):600-622. Epub 2022 Feb 10. doi: 10.1080/14683849.2022.2033118
Nordensvard J, Ketola M. Populism as an act of storytelling: Analyzing the climate change narratives of Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg as populist truth-tellers . Environmental Politics. 2021 Nov 1. Epub 2021 Nov 1. doi: 10.1080/09644016.2021.1996818
Hughes C, Ketola M. Neoliberalism and the Voluntary and Community Sector in Northern Ireland. Bristol: Policy Press, 2021. 152 p. (Third Sector Research Series). doi: 10.51952/9781447351191
Nordensvard J, Alexandra J, Ketola M. Internalizing animals and ecosystems in social citizenship and social policy: From political community to political country. Sustainability. 2021 Jun 9;13(12):1-15. doi: 10.3390/su13126601
Ketola M. [Review of] Jätkät ja jytkyt–Perussuomalaiset ja populismin retoriikka [Blokes and Bombshells: True Finns and Populist Rhetoric]: Edited by Emilia Palonen and Tuija Saresma, Tampere: Vastapaino, 2017. Pp. 365. €36 [£30] softback; €25 [£21] EPUB. ISBN: 9789517686174. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. 2020 Apr 2;26(2). doi: 10.1080/13537113.2020.1751395
Ketola M. NGOs and Civil Society. In Ozerdem A, Whiting M, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Turkish Politics. Abingdon: Routledge. 2019. p. 126-137
Nordensvard J, Ketola M. Rethinking the consumer metaphor versus the citizen metaphor: Frame merging and higher education reform in Sweden. Social Policy and Society. 2018 Dec 26;18(4):555-575. doi: 10.1017/S1474746418000465
Ketola M, Nordensvard J. Reviewing the relationship between social policy and the contemporary populist radical right: Welfare chauvinism, welfare nation state and social citizenship. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. 2018 Sept 26;34(3):172-187. doi: 10.1080/21699763.2018.1521863
Ketola M, Nordensvard J. Framing social policy and populism in a changing European context. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. 2018 Sept 6;34(3):169-171. doi: 10.1080/21699763.2018.1521864
Ketola M, O'Connor K. Contemporary governance in Northern Ireland: Introduction. Administration. 2018 Aug 24;66(3):1-4. doi: 10.2478/admin-2018-0024
Ketola M, Hughes C. Changing narratives, changing relationships: A new environment for voluntary action? Voluntary Sector Review. 2018 Jul 12;9(2):197-214. doi: 10.1332/204080518X15299335540420
Ketola M, Nordensvard J. Social policy and populism: Welfare nationalism as the new narrative of social citizenship. In Needham C, Heins E, Rees J, editors, Social Policy Review 30. Vol. 30. United Kingdom: Policy Press. 2018. p. 161-181. (Social Policy Review).
Ketola M, Hughes C. Independence of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector in Northern Ireland. 2016. 23 p.
Ketola M. Understanding NGO strategies to engage with donor-funded development projects: Reconciling and differentiating objectives. European Journal of Development Research. 2016 Jul 1;28(3):479-494. Epub 2015 Apr 2. doi: 10.1057/ejdr.2015.17
Ketola M. Civil society management education in Finland: What’s management got to do with it? Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership. 2015 Nov 10;5(4):305-324. doi: 10.18666/JNEL-2015-V5-I4-7032
Nordensvard J, Ketola M. Nationalist reframing of the Finnish and Swedish welfare states – The nexus of nationalism and social policy in far‐right populist parties. Social Policy and Administration. 2015 May;49(3):356-375. Epub 2014 Jul 31. doi: 10.1111/spol.12095
Ketola M, Nordensvard J. Nordic Euroscepticism – An exception that disproves the rule? 2013.
Ketola M. The everyday politics of the European public sphere: Moving beyond EU policy perspectives. Journal of Civil Society. 2013 Sept 1;8(3):213-228. Epub 2012 Nov 30. doi: 10.1080/17448689.2012.738879
Ketola M. Europeanization and Civil Society: Turkish NGOs as Instruments of Change. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. (New Perspectives on South-East Europe).
Ketola M. EU support for NGOs in Turkey is not a short-cut to democratic change. 2012.
Ketola M. European perspectives on the Big Society agenda. In Ishkanian A, Szreter S, editors, The Big Society Debate. United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2012. p. 158-167
Ketola M. ‘A gap in the bridge?’: European Union civil society financial assistance in Turkey. European Journal of Development Research. 2011 Aug 18;24(1):89-104. doi: 10.1057%2Fejdr.2011.32
Ketola M. EU democracy promotion in Turkey: Funding NGOs, funding conflict? The International Journal of Human Rights. 2011 Aug 1;15(6):787-800. Epub 2011 Jul 4. doi: 10.1080/13642987.2011.572551
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