School of Social and Political Science

Profile

Markus Ketola is Senior Lecturer in Global and International Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh, and co-editor of the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. 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, 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.