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Saana Hansen

PhD Student

  • Institution University of Helsinki
  • Department/faculty Social Sciences (Social and Cultural Anthropology)

My research interests include internal and cross-border displacement in Sub-Saharan Africa, politics of belonging, identity building and state formation. In my ethnographic Doctoral Study I use the return migration of Zimbabweans from neighbouring Southern African countries as an avenue for exploring the dynamics of returnee urban emplacement.

Samuel Hartikainen

PhD student

  • Institution University of Eastern Finland
  • Department/faculty School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences

Environmental health, analytical chemistry and toxicology relates studies related to plastic recycling, microplastics, sedimentology, mining, mining waters, mineral processing, geochemistry, geology and mineralogy.

Päivi Hasu

Academy Research Fellow

  • Institution University of Helsinki
  • Department/faculty Dpt of Political and Economic Studies
Projects

Religion and globalization: Evangelical Christianity and development in Africa

Kaisa Haukka

Dr.

  • Institution University of Helsinki
  • Department/faculty Microbiology

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.

Markku Hauta-Kasari

Principal Investigator

  • Institution University of Eastern Finland
  • Department/faculty SIB-lab infarustructure Unit
Projects

Spectral imaging and analysis in environmental and industrial applications - SPEVINDS

Anja Heikkinen

Coordinator

  • Institution University of Tampere
  • Department/faculty School of Education
Projects

ReWell - Promoting Regional Wellbeing Through Adult and Vocational Education

ReWell - promoting regional wellbeing through adult and vocational education

Anita Heim

  • Institution University of Helsinki
  • Department/faculty Department of Agricultural Sciences
Projects

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

Ulla Helimo

Coordinator

  • Institution Conservation International
Projects

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

Ida Herdieckerhoff

PhD Candidate

  • Institution University of Eastern Finland
  • Department/faculty Department of Historical and Geographical Studies

Collaborative natural resource governance

Projects

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

EURÍDICE HERNÁNDEZ

Doctoral researcher

  • Institution Univesity of helsinki
  • Department/faculty Culture and Area Studies

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.