“I study post-growth economic models, focusing on technologies and innovations needed in them, how they are innovated, who owns them, and how they can be leveraged through innovation policy. Previously I have of governance of sustainability transitions in Finnish city management and in Indigenous communities in Ecuador. Currently, I am trying to understand what kinds of organizations, technologies, and innovations we need to create a more sustainable way of living.”

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“In my dissertation, I analyze the communication of organizational purpose, which seeks to justify the existence and actions of business organizations. This communicative phenomenon of ‘purposezation’ has significantly increased in recent years due to global ecological and social crises. In my research, I approach the communication of purpose and CSR communication from the perspective of diverse stakeholders and analyze how power relations are constructed and renewed through this communication.”

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“I am researching how people in Finland find wellbeing amid social, digital, and environmental change, particularly in later life. Through ethnographic fieldwork and artistic methods I explore the link between environmental care and social wellbeing. I will share the results in an exhibition and graphic non-fiction book. My previous research was in Japan and I am the author of Ageing with Smartphones in Japan.”

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“I am currently working on understanding urban biodiversity and the multiple values and value conflicts associated with it. I also research and develop creative and embodied learning methods for sustainability education. I often apply cross-disciplinary research, facilitate workshops and use creative methods in my research.”

“I am exploring new research paths and practical solutions for nature-inclusive, regenerative solar energy production. My research bridges physics, engineering, ecology, and art to ask how we might design energy systems in ways that foster ecologically sustainable relationships and interactions with other species.”

“In my current project, I examine work and livelihoods in socioecological transformations from the perspective of workers. My research frequently involves multidisciplinary ethnographic inquiry into economic cultures, alongside reflections on paradigm shifts and the nature of knowing. In addition to the fields of organisation and management studies and sustainable entrepreneurship, I have worked within design research, sociology, cultural studies, and gender studies.”

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“In my research, I aim to examine the impacts of climate change on society and well-being, and to provide researched data on attitudes, experiences and feelings related to climate change. My research interests also relate to how behavioural science can be used to inform the design and implementation of climate action.”

“In my research group, we imagine a transformation of our mobility systems with the goal of creating and serving more coherent, ecologically sustainable and resilient, (more than) human-centered communities. The focus of my doctoral research is on the role of bottom-up movements, such as protests or civil disobedience, and how they can steer the desired change. I look at activism and how it helps or can help shape existing planning paradigms.”

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“I study how journalistic publicity could be produced within planetary boundaries. My research focuses on the material dimensions of journalistic publicity production, such as the use of natural resources, biodiversity loss, CO2 emissions, and various types of waste. I am particularly interested in how the working conditions, operational models, and production methods of the media industry should change to make journalistic publicity production materially sustainable for the environment.”

“I work as a post doc -researcher in a multinational European research project called MAPS (Models, Assessment, and Policies for Sustainability). The aim of the project is to study well-being and social policies that operate within planetary boundaries, with a particular focus on different models of post-growth economies and their social acceptance. Last year, I completed my dissertation, which examined activation policy measures for long-term unemployed people in Finland from a sustainability perspective.”

“I conduct artistic research on human-soil relations in the context of regenerative thinking and practices. The research is based on dialogic fieldwork with regenerative farmers and soil and climate scientists. I explore the topic through artistic work, perception studies, and environmental aesthetics. I also consider the art-historical continuum from land art to contemporary regenerative art forms.”

“Knowledge co-production is widely advocated as essential for advancing sustainability transformations, as it brings together diverse societal actors and knowledge systems to produce actionable insights to address complex challenges. My dissertation critically examines and further develops knowledge co-production methods in environmental governance, empirically focusing on the Transition Arena method.”

“My research focuses on eco-social policy and sufficiency for sustainable well-being. In my dissertation, I look at how our consumption can be reduced to sustainable levels in a fair and acceptable way. My data is based on a survey conducted in Finland and interviews with households. I am also a researcher on the MERGE and MAPS Horizon projects, which are exploring policy tools, indicators and models for sustainable well-being and a post-growth economy.”

“Where two animals or humans meet, not only pathogens spread, but also lots of microbes that support health. I study the spread of symbiotic gut microbiomes in social networks: how health spreads through contact. Through my research, I am trying to create a new ecological theory of network-spreading ecosystems and how the diversity and resilience of ecosystems depend on the balance between isolation and connection. Understanding this is particularly important now that our new lifestyles are fundamentally changing who and where we are in contact with, and thus how microbes and other species spread between ecosystems.”

“My dissertation research explores Finnish forests through a utopian imagination involving science, artificial intelligence, art, emotions and citizen activism. The research challenges dominant economic narratives and highlights the forest as an ecosystem. The study focuses on both traditional and AI-generated texts written by the high school students participating in the study. The research is rooted in imagination and utopian studies, and in particular in the social psychology and utopia pedagogy traditions.”

“I am a psychologist, doctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland, and eco-emotions expert at Tunne ry. I study the concept of planetary psychology and psychologists’ roles in sustainability transformation. Previously, I have examined the identities and vulnerabilities of young environmental activists. As an eco-emotions expert, I train and lead workshops on mental health and ecological crisis for organizations, social and health care professionals, and EU-level actors, among others.”

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“I am interested in economic inequality and its implications for the planetary crisis. For my PhD I am doing research on the concentration of markets and the accumulation of power and wealth that comes with it. I am focusing on the role of the public sector in driving this development and exploring ways to build a more inclusive economy within planetary boundaries. At the moment, I am focusing on urban planning and the impact of suburban development on the ownership of local malls in Helsinki.”

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“My research is about the water cycle, its meaning for sustaining the Earth system, and interdependencies between local and global changes in water resources. I map changes in freshwater resources using global data and combine these findings with the Finnish context by analysing physical and virtual water flows to and from Finland. I hope that my research would produce increasingly holistic knowledge on how we change the vitally important water cycle and how does it affect us.”