Rautio, Pauliina
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1847-6221 Description of research
I am Professor of Biodiversity Education at the University of Oulu. I currently lead several large scale projects on multispecies everyday lives in the framework of environmental social sciences. These include the proof-of-concept project ELOTILA (RCF 2025-2026), research project More than just human homes - HOMINGS (RCF 2024-2028), consortium project (Un)learning with other species (SRC/MUST 2023-2026), and Fellow Feelings (2022‒25) which is externally evaluated as one of Oulu’s flagship projects in human sciences. My transdisciplinary research team AniMate includes scholars of e.g., education, sociology, anthropology and biology. We collaborate with artists working on science fiction literature, dance or fine arts, among others. 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 (68)
Bewildering the legacy effects of Gail Melson’s wild things/animals/children
Imagining well with almonds and honeybees in the Capitalocene - five multispecies movements for environmental and sustainability education
Israel’s war on Gaza and the violation of children’s rights
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
Granted funding (4)
More than just human homes
Creating new storylines of co-habitation to drive everyday life sustainability transitions
(HOMINGS) Research Council of Finland2024 - 2028
ELOTILA
Inclusive co-creation model for shared agency and sustainable future imaginaries in formal education Research Council of Finland2025 - 2026
Enabling multispecies transitions of cities and regions (MUST) Research Council of Finland2023 - 2026