Biodiverse Anthropocenes
Deputy Director

This six-year transdisciplinary research programme, funded by the Academy of Finland and the University of Oulu (€4 million) seeks to encourage collaborative research between the natural and human sciences to address biodiversity and socio-ecological crises. It promotes community inclusiveness via citizen science, participatory research and environmental and societal co-management, and encourages multi-actor, multi-institutional collaborations to increase public awareness of environmental challenges and the research to combat them. 2021-2026.

CONTOURS: Conservation, Tourism, Remoteness
Principal Investigator

This three-year project, funded by ERA.NET Rus Plus (€700,000), looks at the role played by various forms of tourism in devlopment of rural parts of Europe. The research team is made up of twelve researchers across Finland, Estona and Germany. 2021-2023. www.contours.fi

Where North ends: Critical ecological development of landscape and mobility futures in the Fennoscandian Arctic
Principal Investigator

This five-year project, funded by the Academy of Finland (€500,000), uses sensory ethnography and a praxeological approach to understand how practices of mobility have shifted following Covid-19 in the Arctic. Fieldwork will be carried out in Finland and Norway using transdisciplinary methodologies from visual anthropology and the environmental humanities, including immersive video and audio. The project aims to generate new tools for understanding and enhancing human-environment relations across the North. 2021-2026.

Archiving the Planet: Material Infrastructures and Ecologies of Storage in the High North
Researcher

This four-year project, funded by the Eudaimonia Institute (€420,000), investigates how seeds shape infrastructures of conservation, understandings of nature, and the production of global environmental knowledge. It looks at the role seeds play in Arctic futures, revealing hidden entanglements between southern indigenous agricultures, "northern" natures, and "western" high-technological ideologies. The project contributes to emerging work on beyond-human ecologies, infrastructure studies, and environmental futures across anthropology and the history of ideas.

One by Walking
Co-Investigator

This network, funded by Riksbanken's Jubileumsfond and NOS-HS (€62,000) focuses around walking as method for researching humans and the environment, and as a means of promoting environmental and ecological awareness, inclusion, and connection to place and community. A series of four international workshops have brought together diverse scholars and practitioners from the Nordic countries and beyond to facilitate data collection that allows a 'bottom up' approach for communities to understand and work with global SDGs.

Extending Realities: Pioneering Immersive Technologies in Transdisciplinary Research
Principal Investigator

This network, funded by NOS-HS (€43,000) focuses around the emerging innovative use of immersive audio-video technologies (XR/VR/AR) in capturing in situ data and of representing various fields for social science and humanities researchers. Across five workshops, the project solidified a research agenda for immersive technologies; developed a series of best practices and lessons learned for scholars interested in bringing these digital technologies into their work; and built a network of researchers that pushes forward paths for future scholarship.