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Kristina Leppälä

Kristina Leppälä

Postdoctoral Researcher

Post-doctoral researcher

Business School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies

[email protected] | +358 50 414 2718

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Leppälä’s research primarily concentrates on navigation and enactments of sustainability and the circular economy. Her research interests include practice theoretical approaches to multi-actor collaboration, materials, technology, and industrial transitions towards sustainability. Leppälä came to academia from a long career in the high-tech industrial sector. She has been a visiting researcher at Exeter University (UK) and twice to Stanford University (USA), the latter as a Fulbright Finland scholar (2025). She serves on many boards and is frequently seen as a visiting speaker. Leppälä has made her home in Finland for decades, and maintains close ties to the US.

 

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biomedical research and engineering circular economy ethnography innovation management materials practice and co-creation research practice theory qualitative research societal change sustainability transition sustainable health and economics

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