Rautio Pauliina

Professor

Description

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

Professor

Primary

Yleinen kasvatustiede

2025

Primary

Source: University of Oulu

Education (1)

PhD, Educational Science

Publications (68)

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2024

Bewildering the legacy effects of Gail Melson’s wild things/animals/children

Pedagogy, culture and society

Open access

DOI

10.1080/14681366.2024.2355094

Peer-reviewed

Israel’s war on Gaza and the violation of children’s rights

Childrens geographies: advancing interdisciplinary understanding of younger peoples lives

DOI

10.1080/14733285.2024.2316752

Kotitarpeesta modernin tuotannon tarpeisiin – eläinteollisuuden kulttuurihistoriallista tarkastelua

Terra: maantieteellinen aikakauskirja

Open access

Granted funding (4)

ELOTILA Inclusive co-creation model for shared agency and sustainable future imaginaries in formal education

Research Council of Finland

2025 - 2026

More than just human homes Creating new storylines of co-habitation to drive everyday life sustainability transitions (HOMINGS)

Research Council of Finland

2024 - 2028

Enabling multispecies transitions of cities and regions (MUST)

Research Council of Finland

2023 - 2026