Description of research

I am a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oulu and an Adjunct Professor of Education at the University of Helsinki. I currently lead several large scale projects on multispecies everyday lives in the framework of environmental social sciences: More than just human homes - HOMINGS (RCF 2024-2028), (Un)learning with other species (as part of SRC consortium MUST 2023-2026), CitiRats (RCF 2020‒24) and Fellow Feelings (2022‒25) which is externally evaluated as one of Oulu’s flagship projects in human sciences. I am also a senior scholar in the Biodiverse Anthropocenes research profiling area (Profi6 2021-2026). My transdisciplinary research team includes scholars of education, sociology and biology. We also collaborate with artists working on science fiction literature and biological arts. We produce in-depth theoretical-empirical studies exploring processes of becoming and being human with other animals, combining ecological citizen science with multispecies education, human-animal studies and the arts, and utilising multispecies (non-anthropocentric) methodologies.

Affiliations

University of Oulu
Unit
Faculty of Education and Psychology
Source: ORCID
Title
Senior Research Fellow

Education

Degrees
PhD, Educational Science

Publications (69)

Bewildering the legacy effects of Gail Melson’s wild things/animals/children
Young, Tracy Charlotte; Rautio, Pauliina
Pedagogy, culture and society
2024

Imagining well with almonds and honeybees in the Capitalocene - five multispecies movements for environmental and sustainability education
Pliushchik, Marina; Tammi, Tuure; Rautio, Pauliina
Journal of environmental education
2024

Israel’s war on Gaza and the violation of children’s rights
Wells, Karen; Cortés-Morales, Susana; Esson, James; Horgan, Deirdre; Nxumalo, Fikile; Phoenix, Ann; Rautio, Pauliina; Rosen, Rachel
Childrens geographies: advancing interdisciplinary understanding of younger peoples lives
2024