New project on agency

CEACG-researcher Petteri Koivula is initiating his doctoral dissertation project on how agency is construed and reproduced through the epistemic project of brain-based addiction.
The project Brain-based addiction: Implications for views on agency (AGENCY) will ask how the epistemic project of brain-based addiction comes about and its implications for persons who suffer from the problems. The study inquires into how agency of people with addictions materializes in the implementation of the Brain Disease Model of Addiction (BDMA) in general epistemic and popular constructs; in policy and practice and in treatment settings. The project, which is entangled with the A-BRAIN consortium, has cooperation partners in Canada and in Germany.
Koivula, who has previously worked at the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), started as a research assistant at the CEACG in April. He recently finalized his master’s thesis from the University of Turku concerning psychedelic drug use experiences.
During the work with his dissertation Petteri will be enrolled as a PhD student at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki.