Hannu I. Heikkinen

Prof. Hannu I. Heikkinen is professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Oulu. His current research focuses on how human-environment relations and overall wellbeing and sustainability are mediated by culture and technology, particularly in Arctic and Northern societies. He is especially interested in participatory approaches, citizen science, resource rights and environmental justice. A Docent in Environmental and Applied Anthropology, he has led and been involved in multiple transdisciplinary projects, and has previously worked across a number of institutions, including the Thule Institute, the Arctic Centre, the Finland Futures Research Centre (Turku School of Economics), the Laboratory of Environmental Protection (Helsinki University of Technology) and Finnish Forests Research Institute (Metla). He has published 45 peer-reviewed articles and one monograph (published doctoral thesis); his publications total 97. He has supervised 13 doctoral dissertations and some 75 master’s theses. Heikkinen was a workgroup leader in the Nordic Centre of Excellence ‘Resource Extraction and Sustainable Arctic Communities’ (REXSAC).