Dr Heta Mulari is a post-doctoral researcher at the Unit of Social Research, Tampere University, Finland. Mulari’s research interests include youth and subculture studies, film studies, circus studies, urban studies, feminist ethnography, and art-based research methods. She has published widely both in English and Finnish. Her recent publications in the field of social circus studies, urban studies and subculture studies include ‘Soft Rebellion’: Flow art, critical play, and wellbeing in the city (with Maaria Hartman), DIY: Alternative Cultures and Society 2024; and 'European Youth and Social Circus Pedagogy and the Promotion of Social Well-being', together with Ilaria Bessone & Ian R. Walsh, Welfare et Ergonomia 8/2023.

In her previous research, Mulari has explored gendered youth cultures, girlhood studies as well as youth and media studies. She is co-editor of Nordic Girlhoods – New Perspectives and Outlooks, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 (with Bodil Formark and Myry Voipio). Her publications on gender and youth also include: ‘Negotiating sexual harassment and young urban femininities in Helsinki’. In Maja Lundqvist, Angelica Simonsson, Kajsa Widegren (eds.) Reimagining Sexual Harassment: Perspectives from the Nordic Region. Bristol: Policy Press: 72–91 and ‘Emotional encounters and young feminine choreographies in the Helsinki Metro’, Girlhood Studies, 2020. Mulari defended her PhD 'New Feminisms, Gender Equality and Neoliberalism in Swedish Girl Films, 1995-2006' at the School of History, Culture and Arts Studies, University of Turku, in 2015.