Nathaly Pinto is a doctoral researcher at Aalto University, Finland, and an Adjunct Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Ecuador. With design training in Ecuador and the Netherlands, she has spent nearly a decade collaborating on projects with popular classes and indigenous peoples, partnering with civil society organizations in Ecuador and Andean South America. Her research centers on participatory design from the Global South, popular communication, and design for social change. Currently, Nathaly's focus lies in closely working with indigenous organizations and youth in the Ecuadorian Amazon, conducting research and co-designing visual devices to support political-educational spaces for dialogue, deliberation, and learning.

Occupational well-being project to increase physical and mental health for Indonesian teachers.

Punam Noor’s research focuses on accommodating indigenous peoples' traditional knowledge in international climate change law with special reference to the European High Arctic, where she combines conceptual frameworks with indigenous traditional knowledge for the promotion of indigenous peoples' resilience against climate change. She is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lapland. She earlier had a Masters in Comparative and International Law from University of Eastern Finland. She specialised in Environmental and Climate Change Law and she did European Union Law as her minor studies. She has completed Postgraduate Diploma in Law from Northumbria University in the UK. Prior to that, she completed Bachelors in Law from University of London.

Primi is a PhD Student. Her research focuses on transparency in natural resource governance in Indonesia. She is particularly assessing the information needs and experiences of communities living in a resource-rich area and on the impact of increased information disclosure on citizen engagement in subnational resources revenues management.

Projects

TIGRe: Transparency, Identity, and Governance of High-Value Natural Resources

PG Researcher in Education with an interdisciplinary interest in the overlap between culture, society, technology, business, and development - especially in educational settings.

Lahara is a doctoral researcher at the Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku. Her research looks at how transformative futures of development cooperation are imagined and constructed by different actors, through a relational study of donor and recipient perspectives in Finland and Sri Lanka. Bringing together futures research and development studies, she explores how narratives shape ideas of transformation, power, and agency in development cooperation, and what alternative futures might emerge from these perspectives.

Academy Fellow and Principal Investigator of Global Development Studies, focusing on development, politics, and state formation in Latin America and Africa.

With my doctoral dissertation, I find out what kind of challenges the "green" energy transition means for the Sámi: How the industrial land use plans accelerated by the energy transition take into account the Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) of the Indigenous Peoples, and what the neglect of the FPIC reveals about assimilating social structures in Finland from the perspective of settler colonialism.

I am a doctoral candidate at Aalto ENG (Water and Environmental Engineering). I research higher education pedagogy for sustainable development, with a particular focus on engineering education, problem-based learning and Global South networks.

Project Researcher at the Fine Particle and Aerosol Technology Laboratory (FINE), specializing in small-scale combustion and its emissions. Currently, I am working on the "Technological and socio-economic solutions to reduce indoor air pollution in Nepal" project.