Sustainability Transformations Doctoral Education Pilot

Here you can find the list of potential supervisors in SusTra. If you're interested in applying for a position in the thematic field of SusTra, you should contact a possible supervisor from this list as soon as possible.

Sustainability Transformations Doctoral Education Pilot (SusTra) produces information about social, cultural, organizational and individual-level change processes when targeting a sustainable and just society without exceeding the planetary boundaries. Complex social-ecological challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss and global social inequality require in-depth sustainability transformations, across all sectors, scales and actors.

This will include new approaches for i) rethinking the state, such as cross-sectoral governance approaches for advancing sustainability transformations; ii) rethinking the commons, such as changing the way which people understand, govern, and use physical, cultural, and intellectual commons; iii) rethinking justice including changing the relationships between people and place, and the range of knowledge and experiences of environmental change; iv) rethinking efficiency including finding ways to fair distribution of goods, and v) rethinking business and economy.

At the University of Helsinki we are looking for two doctoral researcher for a 3-year doctoral position in the field of Environmental Humanities. The selected persons will work on one of the following themes: Critical approaches to Global Sustainability Framework, Biocultural diversity in the Arctic, Equality and inclusion of Indigenous and minority perspectives to sustainability transition.

Suitable candidates have a background in cultural and areal studies, environmental humanities or sociolegal studies.

We are also looking for two doctoral researchers in the fields of participatory mapping and/or eco-acoustics, each to be employed for a 3-year doctoral position. The selected persons will work on one of the following themes: i) Geodesign – developing and scaling participatory methods for delivering multi-species transitions and ii) Listening in - creating representations of non-human perceptions of landscapes to support sustainability transformations. Suitable candidates will have a background in spatial sciences, human geography, soundscape ecology and/or environmental social sciences.

Christopher Raymond - Sustainability Transformations

  • I study the development of Geodesign techniques and participatory methods for sustainability transformations, as well as the role of eco-acoustics and senses of place in creating and representing human and non-human perceptions of landscapes.

Reetta Toivanen - Sustainability Transformations

  • I supervise PhD reseach in the areas of critical approaches to Global Sustainability Framework, Biocultural diversity in the Arctic, Equality and inclusion of Indigenous and minority perspectives to sustainability transition.