Research project: FORK- Fraud-Free Food and Regulatory Know-How, funded by the Academy of Finland and UEF 2019-2023
How can consumers be sure that they eat what they think they eat? The FORK project responds to the trends of power consumerism, personalized nutrition services and digitalization of food commerce by developing better regulation for a modified food chain.
International partner: Fighting Food Frauds regarding Foods with Intentionally Added Pharmaceutical Products, funded by the Chinese State Administration for Market Regulation, 2019-2022. The FFF-project aims to identify patterns of food fraud and seek solutions by examining experiences of other jurisdictions. Economically motivated food adulteration adding pharmaceuticals in foods as Chinese traditional medicine is a growing issue in food manufacturing largely contributing to food safety problems in China.
Book project: K Lindroos, L Montagnani and K Klafkowska Wasniowska: Freedom and Responsibility of Online Platforms, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019-2021.European values include upholding free movement in the single market, while ensuring responsibility and accountability in the digital single market. All regulators face the same dilemma: how to strike a balance between these values structuring the role of platforms in preserving fundamental values.
Book project: K Lindroos, L Tammenlehto: Moderni immateriaalioikeus ja alustatalouden innovaatiot, Talentum Publishing 2019-2020.
In this project of the PUTTE-program (poorly known habitats and species) of Ministry of Environment we study vegetation types and species of rich fens (’letto’ in Finnish). These habitats are among the most threatened and have special biodiversity values. We collect all possible vegetation plot data that exists from Finnish rich fens and amend it in a field work campaign. The data base will enable revision of vegetation classification of rich fens and presentation of their distribution. We also produce information of rich-fen species occurrences with specific focus on poorly known molluscs and hepatics.
Taru Kesävuori is a Doctoral Researcher in the University of Eastern Finland, Business School. She works in the Neuro-impact and innovation (NOVA) research team that produces knowledge on collaborative research and innovation strategies in the field of neuroscience. Taru works in the DATASLEEP research project that looks into the developing field of sleep research and innovation. Utilizing the theoretical perspective of innovation management the project aims to increase understanding of the diversity of sleep ecosystem actors and shed light on the underlying factors, structures, rules, and values that shape the research and innovation activities in the sleep field.
Taru obtained a BSc in Mathematics from Helsinki University in 2010 and a MSc in International Design Business Management from Aalto University in 2013. Her primary research interest lies in the datafication of society and its impacts on health R&I practices and infrastructure.
I approach environmental governance as encounters between actors who are located and situated in multiple partially connected sociomaterial networks. Each network reproduces and regenerates its own ontology and epistemology about sustainability and its own conceptions of moral (values and conceptions of responsibility). I apply theories founded on decolonial and posthumanist relational approaches, combining political ontology, decoloniality and STS with environmental politics.
My PhD contributes to critical management studies and focuses on recognition in natural resource governance and development planning in Sápmi, during contemporary decolonising processes of the Sámi people as Indigenous people of Northern Europe.
My post.doctoral research will be about responsive and collaborative governance of waterscapes. I am interested in ontological, epistemological, participatory and distributional dimensions of justice in natural resource governance.
My research is interdisciplinary and I am accustomed to collaborate across social sciences, law and business studies and natural sciences. I have also worked with policy assessments.
I use qualitative methods, such as ethnography, action research, interviews and policy analysis in my research.
