Doctoral researchers

Examples of doctoral researchers´ topics in the Sustainability Transformation doctoral education pilot:

  • Measuring sustainability competence in the world of work
  • Experiences on creative self in work life setting as part of sustainability transformation
  • Northern river nature and nature culture; a participatory documentary film project with riverside people
  • Just water governance in sustainability transformations: comparative case study from Finland
  • Unpacking different resilience understandings in the implementation of European water policy
  • Rethinking human-nature relations in economic organization: Regeneration and managing of natural capital
  • Strategic management of sustainability transformations
  • Towards planetary approach in psychology: Exploring the understanding of sustainability transformation through the case of psychologist-activists and activist identity formation
  • Interactive Promotion of Sustainability Transformations in the North Karelia Biosphere Reserve: A Case Study on Networked Environmental Governance
  • Legal coherence in sustainable transformation and the integration of environmental objectives with critical raw materials governance in the EU
  • The EU Legal System and Post-Growth: A Socio-Legal Investigation into Structural Mismatches and Leverage Points in the Food and Energy Contexts
  • Ecosystem governance in sustainable circular economy of green transition materials
  • The impact of sustainability reporting practices on strategic decision-making
  • Personal and public responsibility for climate change and trust in public institutions
  • From individualism towards planetary inclusion
  • The carbon and biodiversity footprint of Finnish transportation system
  • Nordic eating for planetary well-being: identifying and fostering interfaces for socio-culturally accepted dietary transition
  • Exploring future orientations and pro-environmental behaviour among Finnish youth: implications for sustainability transitions
  • Sustainability transformations in the Era of Capitalocene: Formulating pedagogies for cultivation of desires Enablers and Constraints of Sustainability Education in Non-governmental Organisations and Schools
  • Civil society strategies in the governance of just transition: Views from Africa
  • Strengthening legal systems for sustainability transformation through complexity-aware evaluation
  • Navigating legal tensions of the sustainability transition within political-administrative interaction
  • Multispecies soundscape perception to inform stakeholders about other species needs
  • Indigenous and ancestral ontologies for environmental protection in the Colombian Andean-Amazon region. Study case of communities in Nariño and Putumayo, Colombia
  • Cultural and Knowledge Co-Creation for Sustainable Land Stewardship in the Arctic: Engaging Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Participatory Mapping for
    Biocultural Diversity Conservation
  • Multi-level stakeholder engagement and joint value creation for biodiversity in the mining sector
  • Conservation of unknown diversity in the age of global decline in biodiversity
  • Future biodiversity visions
  • Operationalizing Socio-Ecological-Technological Systems (SETS) framework to integrate Justice in Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) Planning
  • Participatory GIS and GeoAI in holistic risk assessment and sustainable management of cultural heritage in dynamic landscapes 
  • Cultural Sustainability Transformation and Futures of Sufficiency
  • Transformational futures narratives for human-material relationships Exploring the geospatial correlation of outdoor air quality as measured by PM2.5 to seasonal variations in health facility visits/admissions for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and acute exacerbation of COPD
  • Investigating the direct and indirect effects of sustainable diets on respiratory health
  • Market concentration and wealth inequality as root drivers of the planetary crisis – what should the public sector do?
  • Towards sufficiency in food consumption: An empirical study on combining good life with sustainable food system.