Pauliina Rautio

My transdisciplinary research team AniMate includes scholars of e.g., education, sociology, anthropology and biology. We produce in-depth studies exploring everyday life 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. We also collaborate with artists working on science fiction literature, dance or fine arts, among others.

As the PI of AniMate, 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.