Fariha Rubaiyat Khan

Fariha Rubaiyat Khan is a doctoral researcher in educational science focusing on posthumanist and critical perspectives in environmental education, multispecies childhood studies, intercultural and decolonial pedagogies, and participatory methodologies for research with children. Central to her work is amplifying the perspectives of children across diverse global contexts, especially those from marginalized socio-economic backgrounds, to inform environmental education for sustainable multispecies futures.

Her PhD thesis, "Who Are the Children That Environmental Education Targets? Developing an Intercultural Framework for Inclusive Sustainable Multispecies Future(s)", investigates how children from the Global North and South understand their relationships with more-than-human worlds through collaborative storytelling. Initially supported by MUST (Enabling multispecies transitions) - a Finnish Strategic Research Council funded project aimed at enabling a paradigm shift to unlearn the framework of human mastery over nature (2023-2029) - her research uses a two-site pilot across Finland and Bangladesh to analyze children's narratives for insights into coexistence, environmental justice, and the potential for culturally responsive pedagogical frameworks adaptable to various global contexts.

She is a member of AniMate, a transdisciplinary collective at the General Education Unit, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Oulu. The group brings together education, ecology, anthropology, and the arts to investigate human-animal relationality and shared becoming.