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.

I am a first-year doctoral researcher in Development studies. My project is on the title " Civil societies strategies for the governance of just energy transition : Views from Africa

Projects

Developing Development Studies

My research contributes towards Development Studies, and focuses on Degrowth. The objective of my research is to explore how degrowth can be promoted at the social level and thus contribute towards the social agenda within degrowth. Primarily I am concerned with the 'decolonisation of the imaginary' which refers to the 'transformation' needed to allow for alternative models of living, such as degrowth, to penetrate the imaginations of society, so that the current model of living is not viewed as the only rational pathway. I will be attempting to create a framework which can be utilized to explore this transformation 'decolonisation of the imaginary' and attempt to use it within a case study, to hopefully gain insight in to how this transformation can occur and be brought about.

I am a PhD student in Development studies at the University of Jyväskylä. My research title is " From humanitarian response to Development: Dynamics of localizing aid in protracted Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh".

After my retirement I'm on professorial contract continuing to conduct research and supervise PhD students in Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki. My own research areas include histories of global development, Finnish development cooperation and Tanzanian long-term development history. I supervise students whose topics are in some way related to any of these.

Godfred Adduow Obeng is a doctoral researcher in Development Studies at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä. He is working on a PhD thesis tentatively entitled “Organic Cocoa Governance and its Implication on Sustainable Production: A Comparative case analysis between Ghana, Ivory Coast and The Dominican Republic”. He investigates this topic from the perspectives of multilevel governance.

University Researcher in Youth Work and Youth Research at Tampere University, and in Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki. For more information: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/onodera/

Lahara is a doctoral researcher at the Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku. Her research looks at how transformative futures of development cooperation are imagined and narrated by different actors, through a comparative study of donor and recipient perspectives in Finland and Sri Lanka. Bringing together futures research and development studies, she explores how narratives shape ideas of transformation, power, and agency in development cooperation, and what alternative futures might emerge from these perspectives.

Academy Fellow and Principal Investigator of Global Development Studies, focusing on development, politics, and state formation in Latin America and Africa.