Azmeary Ferdoush (azmeary.ferdoush@uef.fi)
I am an Academy of Finland (AOF) postdoctoral researcher based at the Karelian Institute. My AOF project explores whether, why, and how the state creates a situation where refugees and asylum seekers are kept indeterminately waiting. It is geographically focused on the Rohingya refugees in the camps of Bangladesh and the asylum seekers residing in different reception centers in Finland.
At the Institute, my works engage with the university strategic program that focuses specifically on the profiling area of “cultural encounters, mobilities and borders.” Broadly, I am interested in exploring the way man-made ideas of borders and bounded spaces affect human mobility and vice versa. As such, I specialize in the study of state, territory, borders, sovereignty, (non)citizenship, and migration. At the same time, I often remain critical regarding “importing” ready-made ideas from the Global North to the Global South in terms of both theory and methods. My scholarship thus sits at the intersection of political geography, critical geopolitics, decolonial praxis, and qualitative research methods.
You can find more about my research here.
Raihanatul Jannat (raihanatul.jannat@uef.fi)
Raihanatul Jannat is a doctoral candidate at the UEF Law School, supervised by Dr. Yulia Yamineva and Dr. Seita Romppanen. Her PhD research explores the role transnational environmental law (TEL) can play in building climate resilient development (CRD) of women. Through her research, Raihanatul aims to conduct comparative case studies on Bangladesh and the Finnish Arctic. Raihanatul is also the coordinator of the Center for Climate Change, Environment, and Energy Law (CCEEL) and is a member of the Climate Change and International Environmental Law research group from CCEEL. Raihanatul’s other research interests include climate justice, environmental justice and minority and human rights.
Yulia Yamineva (yulia.yamineva@uef.fi)
My primary area of expertise is climate law and governance, where I have worked on a variety of topics, including:
- International climate law and governance, and UN climate negotiations;
- Law and governance of mitigating emissions of short-lived climate pollutants (black carbon, methane);
- Climate – air quality policy integration;
- Science-policy interface, especially Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;
- Climate policies in national and regional contexts: EU, Arctic, Russia, China.
My approach to research is interdisciplinary, drawing on the fields of environmental law, policy and governance, and, sometimes, science & technology studies. I closely collaborate with climate and atmospheric scientists.
At the UEF Law School, I am also Co-Director of the Master’s Degree Programme in Environmental Policy and Law, responsible for its major in climate law, as well as Director of the UEF-UNEP Course on Multilateral Environmental Agreements.
Prior to academic work, I worked for the UN Climate Change Convention Secretariat, supporting intergovernmental negotiations on climate finance, and International Institute for Sustainable Development – Earth Negotiations Bulletin. I hold PhD in International Studies and MPhil in Environmental Policy, both from the University of Cambridge. I am proud of my Bashkort heritage: Bashkort people are an ethnic group indigenous to Southern Urals in Russia.
Current projects:
Principal investigator of the project consortium ‘ClimAirPathways: Science-based legal pathways to reduce black carbon emissions in the EU and China: Towards integrated climate – air quality approaches’ (Research Council of Finland, 2023-2027)
Current PhD students:
- Raihanatul Jannat “Building climate-resilient development of women in Bangladesh through adaptation: A study on the potential of global environmental law” (2020)
- Saga Eriksson ‘EU sustainable finance legislation: Towards creation of green markets and agency?’ (2022; UEF Law School funding)
- Moritz Petersmann ‘Fit for governing modern wicked problems? International science-policy interfaces under scrutiny’ (2022; Kone Foundation grant)
- Katri Varis ‘Role of scientific advisory bodies in EU climate law and policy’ (2023)
- Camille Bertaux ‘WHO guidelines & environmental law in a moving context – from mere reference to conclusive influence?’, UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles, Centre for Environmental Law (Member of the supervisory committee with Prof Misonne and Prof Peeters; 2022)
- Niklas Löther ‘From fragmentation to integration in legal responses to climate change and air pollution: A transnational investigation of pathways and obstacles to integrated environmental lawmaking in the European Union’ (2023; funded by ClimAirPathways project)