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Indigenous Studies staff and associated researchers.

Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen

Professor, coordinator of the program

Amazonia, temporality, biodiversity, relational onto-epistemologies, Indigenous research methodologies, research ethics, Indigenous sustainability, biocultural heritage, Indigenous knowledge

Phone: +358294140020

Svetlana Edygarova

University lecturer

Finno-Ugric languages, writing in Indigenous languages, Indigenous and minority languages, sociolinguistics, Udmurt language, language transmission

Hanna Guttorm

Senior Researcher, Kone Foundation fellow.

Indigenous research methodologies, Indigenous cosmologies, Sámi ontologies, Indigenous sustainability, traditional ecological knowledge, post qualitative research methods, research writing

Phone: +358294140043

Victoria Peemot

Postdoctoral researcher, Kone Foundation fellow

human-nonhuman relationships, memory politics, Indigenous methodologies, environmental humanities

+358401202164

Outi Laiti

Postdoctoral researcher

Sámi games, Indigenous games, Game jamming, Indigenous Game Design, Indigenous worldview, Indigenous research methodologies, Intangible heritage, Ethnoprogramming, Indigenous programming, Indigenous ICT, Human-Computer Interaction

Francisco Moura Cândido Apurinã

Postdoctoral researcher, Indigenous Studies

Human-environment interactions, Indigenous sacred places and their protection

Maria Fedina

Postdoctoral researcher, Indigenous Studies

Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia, Indigenous peoples of the North, the Arctic, self-determination

Jelena Porsanger

Associated Senior researcher

Indigenous research methodologies, Sámi epistemology

Tuija Veintie

Senior Researcher (Kone Fellow)

Indigenous knowledge, sustainability and education; collective resilience and polycrises; interculturality and pluriversality; minoritized youth; Amazonia

Irja Seurujärvi-Kari

Associated Senior researcher

Indigenous Studies, Sámi languages, language revitalization, Indigenous movement, language policy, indigeneity, Sámi movement, indigenous women's leadership

Phone: +358400876222

Reetta Toivanen

Associated Researcher, HELSUS Professor in Sustainability Science (Indigenous Sustainabilities)

Critical narratives on Europe, the Arctic, human rights, Indigenous sustainabilities, youth, equality, human rights education

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Dorothee Cambou

Assistant professor in Sustainability science

Indigenous peoples' rights, land and resource governance, self-determinaton issues, energy justice

Phone: +358294123271

Sinituuli Korja

PhD Researcher, Amazonian Indigenous education