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Mervi Heikkinen works as a University Researcher in Gender Studies at the University of Oulu. Her research is focusing on intersectional gender equality and non-discrimination in higher education policies and practices and on the question of gender responsibility in knowledge production. Current topics include gender impact assessment of the research content in the RESET project, and the UNIC4ER project. FETCH Arctic projects explore the academic knowledge production in the Arctic from the methodological angle.

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In my development-oriented career mainly in European projects during past 20 years, I have built up a theoretical and methodological background in understanding and strengthening human participation in the shaping and making of digital futurities through e-learning, e-work and e-research. The projects are related to gender equality promotion in education and labor market, gender equality and diversity planning, gender desegregation, gender equality work within organisations, gender and sexual violence and its prevention, sexist harassment and its prevention. Theoretically, my research builds on feminist research approaches that emphasise people's empowerment and inclusion in society in general - specifically, intersectional gender equality. Context of my research is northern Europe - Arctic North - as academic intelligence is taking a digi-leap while attempting to sustain democracy - the most valuable and vulnerable cultural heritage of Europe. The focus of my current research is on strengthening the possibilities to research the needs, potentials, affordances and social and ethical challenges in a Technology-Rich University.

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In my development-oriented career mainly in European projects during past 20 years, I have built up a theoretical and methodological background in understanding and strengthening human participation in the shaping and making of digital futurities through e-learning, e-work and e-research.

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Lena Abrahamsson, professor in Human Work Science at Lulea University of Technology.

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Lena Abrahamsson is professor and head of subject in Human Work Science and also vice scientific leader for the future area “Creaternity” at Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sweden. Her research interest covers work, organisation and gender in industrial companies. She is today active in projects on digitalisation, green industrial transformation, and sustainable development in the mining and steel industry. She leads a research group of 29 people, supervises doctoral students and works as a project manager in research projects. Read more here: https://www.ltu.se/staff/l/leab

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Britt-Inger Keisu is an associate professor of Sociology and is employed as a senior lecturer. She works as head of department at Umeå Centre for Gender Studies. Her main research interest is focused at the intersection of gender and organization theory. Currently, she work as a project leader for the research projects: Fit for fight? A study of conflict and mental health in women dominated work place from a gender perspective.

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Melina Duarte is an internationally educated analytical philosopher with expertise in the areas of moral and political philosophy. Her research interests center on diversity integration and inclusion of minorities with focus on migration and gender. Duarte is Associate Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Researcher at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She coordinates the Prestige Project.

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Lilli Mittner, PhD is a senior researcher at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and leader of the Balance Hub at UiT. Lilli coordinated the project Gender Balance in Art Education (2015-2018, RCN 245487) and is currently leading the qualitative work package of the research and intervention project Prestige. Gender Balance in Research Leadership (2017-2022, RCN 281862). In her research Lilli brings aesthetic and feminist perspectives together. She has published on multimodality and gender, critical pedagogy and curriculum transformation, gender equality in higher arts education and situated art intervention research. Together with Matthias Mittner she recently developed the web apps BalanceXplorer and the  Balancinator to measure and monitor Gender Balance within organizations.

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Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv is professor in Security Studies at the Centre for Peace Studies, UiT. She is recently awarded one of the first Arctic 5 Chair fellowships, and is leading the Arctic 5 Chair in Security Studies: https://arcticfive.org/2022/06/08/gjorv/. She leads a variety of projects that investigate the role of civilians in conflict, and in particular the role of civilians in the development of hybrid threats and warfare. Her focus on civilians and how they are a part of the conflict picture is an approach she uses to better understand different perceptions of security, and what possibilities for peace exist given these perspectives. She is the leader of The Grey Zone research group at UiT: https://uit.no/research/thegreyzone. She was the co-lead author (with Sarah Seabrook Kendell) for the "Security" chapter for the 2021 Gender Equality in the Arctic report: https://arcticgenderequality.network. Her most recent publication is "Positive Security: Collective Life in an Uncertain World" (Routledge) with co-author Ali Bilgic (Loughborough University, UK).

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Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv

Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv is a Professor in Security Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

This project presents a fantastic opportunity to merge and strengthen synergies across Arctic universities and related institutions, enhancing and promoting expertise in understanding trust and resilience in the face of hybrid threats, particularly cyber threats directed at infrastructure, and disinformation campaigns.

The Civilian Effect

Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørvs project combines three innovative foci - hybrid threats in the Arctic, civilian roles in hybrid threats, and a gendered and intersectional approach to understanding the civilian domain in hybrid threats.

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Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv is a Professor in Security Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. This project presents a fantastic opportunity to merge and strengthen synergies across Arctic universities and related institutions, enhancing and promoting expertise in understanding trust and resilience in the face of hybrid threats, particularly cyber threats directed at infrastructure, and disinformation campaigns.

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Sofia Kari is a doctoral student at the University of Lapland, the unit of Gender Studies. Her PhD focuses on non-binary gender, examining individual experiences and social norms. Through previous work, she is also interested in research related to gender in education. Currently on parental leave, Sofia will be back to research in August 2022.

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Hanna Peltomaa completed her PhD on gender studies in 2022. In her research, she studied non-heterosexual people’s lives in village communities in Finnish Lapland. The main question of the research was: What kind of possibilities and limitations do non-heterosexual people have in village communities in Lapland? Currently, her research focuses on transgender and gender non-conforming people’s experiences in health care and social services.

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Klara Rydström is a doctoral student at Human Work Sciences, Luleå University of Technology (LTU) since 2020. Rydström’s research interests center on work and intersectional gender issues.

Her PhD project is focused on constructs of work and gender doings in warehouses belonging to online retailing, which she studies using ethnographic and qualitative methods. You can read more here.

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Anna Reetta Rönkä is a post doctoral researcher from University of Oulu (UO) Finland and is currently on a parental leave. She will be joining UO´s Gender Studies team again in August 2022. Her research interests include experiences of loneliness, gender(ed) norms and normativities, belonging and non-belonging, circumpolar health and wellbeing, and history of and knowledge production in birth cohort studies. More information in ResearchGate and Researcher profile page.

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Rönkä is PhD and postdoctoral researcher in LIVES project (Lives over time: Birth cohort studies as a form of scientific knowledge-production, 2018-2021, Academy of Finland). In the project her focus areas are changing (research) ethics and their impact on Birth Cohort research; affordances and challenges of birth cohort data for gender research, and research participants´s experiences and evaluations on birth cohort studies.

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Aira Huttunen is a doctoral researcher at the University of Oulu, Information studies, Finland. Huttunen’s research interests include relations of experience, stigma and embodiment in transgender people’s ways to seek and share information. You can read more from here: https://www.oulu.fi/en/researchers/aira-huttunen

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Lise Gulli Brokjøb is a Cand.psychol student and Student Research Course candidate at the department of University at UiT – The Artic University of Norway. Her research interests center around the impact of internalized societal stressors on psychological health, embodiment and interoception in minority groups. Her past research topics include minority stress and gender dysphoria, social identity threat, and women’s body image concerns and perception of other’s bodies. She conducts quantitative research for the Prestige Project. Read more in ResearchGate.

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Eveliina Ylitalo is finishing her master's degree in educational sciences in University of Oulu. Ylitalo's previous works have focused on segregated labour market and educational equality in Finland and she aims to study gender equality planning as a doctoral researcher after graduating.