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Janet Anand

Professor in International Social Work

  • Institution University of Eastern Finland
  • Department/faculty Social Sciences and Social Work

Janet Carter Anand is an academic, educator and practitioner in social work. Currently a Professor in International Social Work, UEF, she has researched and published on global mindedness, cultural diversity, human rights and ageing and migration and quality of life. Janet is affiliated with the UEF Centre for Borders, Mobilities and Cultural Encounters, leads the IAASW Baltic Nordic Regional Resource Centre and is Editor of the Journal of Nordic Social Work Research and course director Sosnet Global Perspectives in Social Work of a new YUFE program on Global Migration and European Identity.

Zahra Edalati

Doctoral Researcher

  • Institution Tampere Peace Research Institute- Tampere University
  • Department/faculty Social Science

I am a doctoral researcher in peace and conflict studies at Tampere Peace Research Institute, Tampere University. My doctoral research focuses on transnational women’s rights activism, solidarity, and working across differences in the case of Iran. My professional work has been focused on women’s rights activism in Iran and in the diaspora from the feminist peace studies and intersectionality perspective. Previously I have conducted research on the characteristics of the Iranian women’s movement and the peaceful transformation of Iranian society. Besides, I am a journalist, and I have been working as a journalist for more than 10 years. I am a co-founder of the first news agency for Persian-speaking immigrants in Finland.

Laura Kumpuniemi

PhD researcher

  • Institution University of Eastern Finland

PhD research about political dimensions of solidarity economy in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Anitta Kynsilehto

Senior Research Fellow

  • Institution Tampere University
  • Department/faculty Tampere Peace Research Institute

My research focuses on global mobilities, solidarity practices and gender/intersectionality.

Tiina Seppälä

University lecturer, docent

  • Institution University of Helsinki
  • Department/faculty Faculty of Social Sciences

Dr. Tiina Seppälä is a university lecturer in Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki and adjunct professor of International Development Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She has engaged with women’s rights and slum activists in Nepal and Bangladesh, anti-eviction movements in India, asylum seekers in Finland and anti-war activists in the UK. She is interested in development, displacement, social movements, post/decolonial and feminist theory, ethnographic research and arts-based methods.

Projects

Governance, Resistance and Neoliberal Development: Struggles against Development-Induced Displacement and Forced Evictions in South Asia