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Karembe Ahimbisibwe

Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Institution University of Jyväskylä
  • Department/faculty Social Sciences and Philosophy

Karembe F. Ahimbisibwe is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is also a Lecturer in the Department of Adult and Community Education at Makerere University, Uganda where has over 20 years of experience of teaching and supervising graduate and undergraduate students. His research focuses on citizenship, everyday resistance, participatory learning, grassroots associations and development, pandemic precarity, and NGOs. His work has been published in Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Global Society, and International Development Planning Review, among others.

Antti Ainamo

Adjunct Professor

  • Institution 1) Aalto University; 2) Umeå University
Projects

Meta-communication as facilitation strategy in projects of "massive change"

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.

Eleonoora Karttunen

Phd student

  • Institution University of Eastern Finland
  • Department/faculty Yhteiskuntatieteiden laitos

My dissertation examines the perspectives of Bolivian civic actors in forest fire management and politics in the Bolivian Chiquitania; exploring how responding to the socio-ecological crisis, resistance and alternative utopias interlink in the Bolivian activism.

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

Marko Virta

Dr

  • Institution University of Helsinki
  • Department/faculty Department of Microbiology

Dr. Marko Virta is the Director of the Doctoral Programme on Microbiology and Biotechnology at University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests include antibiotic resistance in various human impacted environments such as waste waters, agriculture and aquaculture. Dr. Virta’s website: http://www.helsinki.fi/molecular-environmental-biosciences

Projects

Antibiotic resistance in Indonesia

Occurrence, Sources and Prevention of Antimicrobial Resistance in West Africa – Following the flow of AMR genes between humans, animals and environment