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 narrated by different actors, through a comparative 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.

I am starting the Doctorate Program at Aalto University in 2021. My research project aims at investigating how frugal social innovations from the Global South might create alternative concepts and appropriated meanings of quality, well-being, social change, consequently, development. This proposal is aligned with contemporary efforts to link management research to Grand Challenges such as poverty alleviation (Kistruck & Shulist, 2020), positioned at the emergent and interdisciplinary field of Business and Development (Lund-Thomsen et al., 2020). I believe that being part of the UniPID DocNet will be an excellent opportunity to expand my training opportunities, exchange and partnerships, while also collaborating with the network, bringing a different background and commitment to discuss the grand societal challenges and development issues in the world. To embark on such an endeavor, I bring an interdisciplinary and multifaceted background, as a researcher and educator from Latin America, working with topics related to social innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development, including significant experience in international collaborations in Brazil, the USA, Uganda, India, and other countries in Latin America and Europe.