I am a PhD researcher in the School, Education, Society, and Culture Doctoral Programme at the University of Helsinki. In my research, I explore speculative fabulating as a pedagogical method through a two-year long (2019-2021) ethnographic study in a Finnish primary school, to address parallel time-spaces in children’s storying with socio-ecological worlds. My study adopts digital storytelling, Finnic Baltic myths and multispecies ethnography, to support children to express and share their affectively entangled and meaningful experiences with more-than-human worlds. Moreover, I hold a Master of Arts in General and Adult Education. I have worked in various research projects at the University of Helsinki, where I have collaborated on developing and researching pedagogical materials that are designed to promote children’s multiliteracy, ecoliteracy and ecological imagination through storying. I have also participated in co-writing several articles related to children’s encounters with more-than-human worlds, giving me a deeper insight into the research field of environmental education. I have also participated in organizing events and pedagogical workshops for adults and children and I am an active member of the Playful Learning Center (PLC). My current research project is ECHOing- Enriching Children’s Ecological Imagination, funded by Academy of Finland and Kone Foundation.
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