Pauliina Rautio

I am Professor of Biodiversity Education at the University of Oulu. 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.

My transdisciplinary research team AniMate includes scholars of e.g., education, sociology, anthropology and biology. We collaborate with artists working on science fiction literature, dance or fine arts, among others.

We produce in-depth theoretical-empirical studies exploring 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.