I am a postdoctoral researcher at University of Eastern Finland, School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education. In my dissertation (2023) I examined how liminality affected asylum seekers’ subjective well-being, the negotiation of agency, and participatory barriers in pre-integrational education.

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Religion and globalization: Evangelical Christianity and development in Africa

I have long experience in working together with West African researchers, mainly from Burkina Faso and Benin. Our work is in the field of microbiology, both research and capacity building. The projects concentrate on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and pathogenic bacteria in humans and environment. We organize training for students and experts in the related subjects.

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Spectral imaging and analysis in environmental and industrial applications - SPEVINDS

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ReWell - Promoting Regional Wellbeing Through Adult and Vocational Education

ReWell - promoting regional wellbeing through adult and vocational education

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Exploring food choices and linking nutrition to landscape - understanding drivers of food and nutrition insecurity of a Sub-Saharan African Indigenous group

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CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY AND WATER RESOURCES IN THE WESTERN AMAZON BASIN: ALTO MAYO BASIN, PERU AND ORITO, MOCOA, GUINEO AND ORTEGUÁZA BASINS, COLOMBIA

Collaborative natural resource governance

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MAKUTANO - Translocal forest owners and environmental collaboration: an action learning process of forest governance transformation in Tanzania

Eurídice, a versatile social scientist with an interdisciplinary foundation, is dedicated to unraveling the intricate links between public spaces, migration dynamics, and identity development. Drawing on her multifaceted background built between Brazil and Finland, Eurídice engages in cutting-edge explorations of urban design to foster social mixing and combat prejudice, leveraging her early proficiency in public management and legal studies. Her research agenda focuses on cultural public spaces and the dynamics of identity development in mixed-background individuals, a topic directly connected to her activist work at Ninho ry. Additionally, Eurídice has contributed to research projects centered around public spaces and deradicalization, smart mobility to counteract inequalities, and establishing daycare centers catering to children of informal female workers.

I am currently writing my doctoral thesis on the motivations of Finnish foreign relations towards Southern African states in the latter part of the 1980s. The primary aim of this research is to examine why the relations towards African states were promoted and what were the reasons for doing so. My previous scientific publications focus on Finnish foreign relations and policies towards Southern African states during the Cold War period, and modern cultural impacts of sports video games. My scientific interests include Nordic historical approaches on development cooperation, Finnish foreign, security, and domestic policy issues during the Cold War, African countries in international forums during the Cold War, and modern cultural impacts of sports in society.