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Antti Autio
Doctoral Candidate
Antti Autio is a Ph.D. student in the Doctoral Programme in Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences (DENVI) at the University of Helsinki. He holds a master’s degree in Development Geography and his dissertation research focuses on smallholder farmer’s adaptation to climate change in East Africa from the perspective of political ecology.
Roseanna Avento
Global Development Manager
My research focuses on food security related initiatives in the Global South. I work on aquaculture and specifically fish farming development, food innovation using neglected foods and indigenous knowledge, food safety and quality management as well as value chain management and development of gender-based value chains. The development of tertiary education (vocational and higher education) is a cross-cutting theme in all of my global engagements in research and education.
Projects
Global Foodnet: Ancient Crops for Food Security
Central Asia Finnish Education Institutes for Green Biotechnology and Food Security
Aquaculture and fisheries development in the Kyrgyz Republic
Green biotechnology for food security
Development of women fish farmer cooperatives in Nepal
Capacity Building in Fisheries and Aquaculture Education in the Kyrgyz Republic
Education collaboration opportunities between Finland and South Africa
Food safety and quality management
Teachers of the future : Finnish-Namibian collaborative teacher education
Food product development from indigenous foods
Role of Finnish higher education in global food and nutrition security
Shahnaj Begum
Post-doctoral researcher
Niti Bhan
Doctoral Student
Niti's research interests lie in the intersection between design methods, multidisciplinary approaches, and participatory social design-driven transformation that takes a humble approach within confined settings (Markussen, 2017; Koskinen and Hush, 2016; Ehn, 1993). She brings more than 2 decades of design and innovation practice to her doctoral studies.
Pramod Bhusal
Principal Investigator
Aina Brias Guinart
Doctoral candidate
My research explores the links between education and biodiversity conservation. I am particularly interested in how conservation NGOs implement education programmes in rural communities in Madagascar and how they affect local cultures, environments and knowledge systems. I have mainly been doing qualitative research using interviews, focus groups and participant observation as methodologies.
Projects
Unpacking the role of education as a tool for biodiversity conservation
Eric Bruun
International public transport expert
Carolina Buendia
Doctoral candidate, Global Development Research
I am a doctoral candidate in the Political, Societal and Regional Change programme experienced in qualitative research and implementation of development cooperation projects in Finland and Latin America. My doctoral research focuses on how the focus of women’s empowerment shifts when Finland’s development aid has been increasingly transferred from traditional development cooperation to the private sector through cross-sectoral partnerships with Kenya. My professional work has been focused on using research to inform project design and implementation in development cooperation initiatives for gender-based violence, gender equality, peacebuilding, psychosocial support, and migration. Previously I have conducted research on Women, Peace and Security, and feminism in Colombia, and refugees, agency, and gender-based violence in Norway.
Chi Bui
Doctoral Researcher
My doctoral research aims to determine the link between Forest Landscape Restoration and Local Livelihoods in the context of the vigorous expansion of planted forests in Vietnam that is dominated by high-density monocultures of non-native species.