Anna Vladimirova

Vladimirova is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Education and Psychology. She is an environmental education scholar whose work integrates relational ontologies, environmental ethnography, place-responsive pedagogy, and multispecies inquiry. She is leading one of the work packages in the HOMINGS: More than just human homes (RCF 2024-2028) project (PI Prof Pauliina Rautio). Together with photographer Inkeri Jäntti and sound artist Elle Kokkonen, Vladimirova visits abandoned houses with the aim to document the biodiversity of these houses, envision homes as more-than-human infrastructures and contribute to policy dialogues that recognize urban ecologies beyond human habitation. Vladimirova has been a member of the transdisciplinary research group AniMate since its establishment in 2016. Vladimirova co-hosts and co-produces mosscast: A multivoicED podcast that explores multispecies (justice) education, art, research and practice.

Vladimirova's main areas of interests include place-responsive pedagogy, materialities of places, embodied ways of knowing, and the creative inquiries through which humans and more-than-humans co-create meaning in precarious environments. In 2025, she received a grant for the Place-Responsive Pedagogy: Education for Climate Resilience project, funded through the University of Oulu International Strategic Partnership Development Scheme. Through this project, she collaborated with Dr. Jamie Mcphie (University of Cumbria, UK) and supervised ten pre-service teachers working with methods that enhance attentiveness to inequalities, discriminatory practices, and anthropocentric patterns within the places they inhabit. The results of their shared work are available at the project's website. In autumn 2025, Vladimirova also conducted a research visit to Ambleside to participate in a module led by Dr. Mcphie. This collaboration has encouraged her to continue learning from scholars who integrate environmental, artistic, and ethical dimensions of education.