Geography

The Geography Research Unit is a highly acknowledged
academic community that consist high international profile
researchers and professors, research groups and vivid
teaching programs.

Research themes cover topics in regional geography, regional
development and policy, physical geography, tourism
research, geoinformatics and political geography.

You will find more information about our research and studies from these pages. Welcome!

News

Two researchers in human sciences on their way to the geographic North Pole for a unique fieldwork

news
17.06.2025

New Academy Research Fellowships, Clinical Researchers, and Academy Projects in the fields of biosciences, health, and environmental research

news
05.06.2025

Permanently frozen palsa mires can be lost by the end of the century

news
11.11.2024

Shanghai Ranking: twenty disciplines from the University of Oulu ranked among the world's best

news
16.09.2024

Black swans or dragon kings? Fingerprints of solar storms help to explore solar physics scenarios and date historical sites

Eleven disciplines of the University of Oulu among the world's top in QS Rankings by Subject

12 disciplines of the University of Oulu among the world's top in QS Rankings by Subject

Climate change is threatening unique permafrost landforms

Events

Projects

Project
2024 – 2027

Cross-Border Cultural and Creative Tourism in Rural and Remote Areas (CROCUS)

Project
2025 – 2028

Arts, culture and creativity for entrepreneurial networking and tourism

Project
2024 – 2028

Land use justice for green transitions (JUSTGREEN)

Project
2025 – 2028

DigiPeat

Research

Regional Development and Regional Policy

Regional and Political Geography

Tourism geographies and sustainable mobilities (TOGSUM)

Physical Geography

Geoinformatics

Sustainable geographies

Theses

Residential environment, physical activity and depressive symptoms in adults

Palsa mires of the Northern Hemisphere: environmental characteristics, degradation, and morpho-ecological state

Social innovations for inclusive development in tourism – insights from Kemi, Finland

Geography of justice: individuation, transformation, and the constitutional legal landscape

Quantitative geodiversity assessment in biodiversity investigations

Geomedia skills for 21st century geography learners. Educational experiments in teaching and learning with geomedia

Perspectives on sustainable food systems and their development in Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland

The spatial politics of depoliticization: Visionary planning, bioeconomy, and forest capital

Geography´s ability to enhance powerful thinking skills and knowledge

Contact information

Organization