Risto Turunen

Postdoctoral Researcher

Unit

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Department / Division

Department of History and Ethnology

risto.j.turunen@jyu.fi

Biography

Postdoctoral Researcher, National Coordinator for DARIAH-FI

Research interests

My PhD on Finnish socialism, completed in 2021, applied text mining to historical research. In my post-doc projects and fellowships (Tampere University, University of Warsaw, the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Helsinki) I have broadened my expertise in data-intensive approaches to political languages. Since 2022, as national coordinator of DARIAH-FI, I have been advancing digital humanities infrastructure in Finland.

Publications

Publication

2025

Extension or Expansion? Quantitative Conceptual Analysis of Parliamentary Uses of “Democratic” in Sweden and Britain, 1950s–1990s

Contributions to the History of Concepts.

Bonin, Hugo

Ihalainen, Pasi

Janssen, Berit

Marjanen, Jani

Turunen, Risto

Publication

2025

Finding Patterns Across Multiple Time-Series Datasets : ‘Democracy’ in the British, Finnish and Swedish Parliaments and Press in the Twentieth Century

Digital Parliamentary Data in Action Workshop. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications. University of Oslo Library.

Turunen, Risto

Ihalainen, Pasi