Academic website of Dr. Juha Halme

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I am a Finnish social scientist currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. My research is part of the Horizon Europe project RUSTIK – Rural Sustainability Transitions through Integration of Knowledge for Improved Policy Processes. I earned my doctoral degree in 2020 with a dissertation focused on stakeholder collaboration in regional place marketing initiatives. My current academic interests lie in sustainability transitions, regional and rural policy, and inter-organizational collaboration—particularly within the framework of living labs. My work has been presented at numerous international conferences and published in leading journals, including Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Qualitative Market Research, Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, and the Journal of Place Management and Development.

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Recent publications

Rauhut, D., Tsiapa, M. & Halme, J. 2026. The geography of exclusion: cumulative causation and the persistence of lagging regions. European Planning Studies, 1–21.

Rauhut, D. & Halme, J. 2025. Rural Development and Place Branding in da Silva Olivieira, E., Björner, E. & Sevin, E. (eds.) The Elgar Encyclopedia of City and Place Branding.

Halme, J. 2021. The role of social capital in the institutionalization of regional place marketing activity. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy 17 (3): 249-256 (Open Access)

Halme, J. 2020. Attractiveness and competitiveness … but for who? Regional place marketing collaboration from a discursive perspective, Doctoral dissertation. University of Eastern Finland (Open access)

Updates

Added column written for the newspaper Karjalainen - October 17, 2021

Added lectio praecursoria - August 2, 2021

Website opened - July 27, 2021