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Kajsa Ekroos

Project Coordinator, MA

  • Institution UniPID, University of Helsinki
  • Department/faculty Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science

I'm a project management professional with several years of experience in coordinating international cooperation projects in both academia and the private sector. My areas of expertise are: science, technology and innovation (STI) cooperation frameworks between Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean, EU-CELAC STI policy dialogue, internationalization of higher education and research, Latin American Studies and intercultural communication.

Projects

Developing Finnish Science, Technology and Innovation Cooperation between Europe, Africa, Asia and the LAC Region (FinCEAL Plus)

Developing Finnish Science, Technology and Innovation Cooperation between Europe, Africa and the LAC Region (FinCEAL)

Developing Finnish Science, Technology and Innovation Cooperation between Europe, Africa, Asia and the LAC Region (FinCEAL Plus Continuation)

Internationalizing Finnish Science: Building Sustainable Bridges to Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean (BRIDGES)

Jerkko Holmi

Doctoral researcher

  • Institution University of Turku
  • Department/faculty Department of Contemporary History

I am currently writing my doctoral thesis on the motivations of Finnish foreign relations towards Southern African states in the latter part of the 1980s. The primary aim of this research is to examine why the relations towards African states were promoted and what were the reasons for doing so. My previous scientific publications focus on Finnish foreign relations and policies towards Southern African states during the Cold War period, and modern cultural impacts of sports video games. My scientific interests include Nordic historical approaches on development cooperation, Finnish foreign, security, and domestic policy issues during the Cold War, African countries in international forums during the Cold War, and modern cultural impacts of sports in society.

Yusuf Kosar

Doctoral Researcher

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

I am a  PhD student in Human Geography, in the department of Geographical and Historical Studies at UEF. I am originally a political scientist and I do my research on Geopolitics and International Relations. However my PhD dissertation is The Finnish Influence on International Peacebuilding, where I will be focusing on two cases of conflicts "Russo-Ukrainian War and Palestinian Crisis" 

Daria Mishina

Leader/Arctic justice

  • Institution University of Lapland
  • Department/faculty Social Science

PhD in Social Science, University of Lapland (Finland). MA in International Relations, Webster University, Vienna (Austria). Specialist in International Relations, Kazan State University (Russia). BA in Jurisprudence, Kazan National Research Technical University (Russia).

Mariko Sato

Principal Investigator

  • Institution University of Jyväskylä/Academy of Finland
  • Department/faculty History and Ethnology
Projects

Asserting Independence in the Post-Colonial Sea: Non-Alignment, Russia and the West in the Mediterranean (RUSMED)

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

Baris Can Sever

Visiting Doctoral Researcher

  • Institution University of Helsinki
  • Department/faculty Global Development Studies / Faculty of Social Sciences

I have had a background in International Relations with bachelor's and master's degrees as I wrote my MA thesis on the role of local non-state actors in the integration of refugees. Currently, I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Middle East Technical University and a visiting doctoral researcher in the Discipline of Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki. My major research area is the sociology of migration, and my minor is environmental sociology. At the nexus of these two main areas, I have specifically focused on the nexus of the climate crisis, neoliberal governance, and migratory movements along with the urban-rural dynamics, socio-ecological and political-economic transformations in the web of life. In addition to that, I have an interest in decolonial philosophy, which lead me to investigate each phase of climate crisis and migration processes through the relations of power, capital, nature, and coloniality.