Anna (Ania) Varfolomeeva

PhD
Postdoctoral researcher
Environmental social sciences

Values, Ideologies and Social Contexts of Education
Faculty of Education and Psychology

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I am an environmental social scientist with a focus on human-resource relationships in the Arctic and Siberia. My current postdoctoral research examines the impacts of wind energy and hydropower development on more-than-human landscapes in northern Finland. This project's field research has been supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Prior to joining the University of Oulu in 2023, I held positions as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Indigenous Sustainabilities at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Tyumen in Siberia. I hold a PhD in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Central European University in Budapest/Vienna.

Since 2021, I have served as the Secretary of the Social and Human Working Group at the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC).

Research interests

  • wind energy
  • hydropower
  • stone mining
  • Arctic anthropology
  • human - resource connections
  • Indigeneity
  • local participation

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Contact information

E-mail

anna.varfolomeeva@oulu.fi

Visiting address

University of Oulu
Faculty of Education and Psychology
Pentti Kaiteran katu 1
90570 Oulu
Finland

Keywords

economics of renewable energy Environmental humanities indigenous peoples issues of region and environment changes in the Arctic regions conservation conflicts on water resources and wind power control of natural resources issues of the Arctic and the North