Philip is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland’s School of Forest Sciences and a member of the Gamification Group at Tampere University.
His research focuses on understanding how gamification can be used in decision-making in forestry planning and policy contexts. He is interested in exploring whether games and playful and immersive technologies, such as games, drones and VR, can be utilised to better engage stakeholders in participatory processes and support multi-criteria decision-making.
As a doctoral researcher in the Spacefen project, I’m combining field measurements with mulit-source and -scale remote sensing data, like drone, aerial and satellite imagery, to characterize spatiotemporal dynamics of palsa mires in the fennoscandian tundra. Palsas are peat mounds containing a permafrost core and are likely to vanish within this century under current climate scenarios. My research aims to better understand palsa life cycles, degradation processes and climate feedbacks.
Phillip Sams is currently researching the concepts pertaining to a perceived crisis of masculinity in late 19th-century American Naturalism. His supervisors are Dr. Jopi Nyman and Dr. Pekka Kilpeläinen. In addition to this, Phillip teaches the American Studies lectures.
I am a researcher and a teacher in the area of management and leadership. My interests relate to management, leadership, expert organizations, change management, resilience, organization behavior, strategic human resource management, competence management and careers.
My research relate to management in working life and I cooperate with different organizations.
I am an Adjunct Professor at LUT-University and University of Jyväskylä.
My research is focused on atherosclerosis and the response of the different cells types to the stimuli. I am studying the gene regulatory processes under pro-atherogenic stimuli and the contribution of the ncRNAs in the different cell types.
I work as a post-doctoral researcher in a culture studies project Post-ownership as an Interpretation and Experience of Economic Change (2022-2026), funded by the Kone Foundation. In my research I focus on the everyday enactments and more-than-human agencies of economy.
In my dissertation Omakätisen ruoantuotannon monilajiset taloudet I examined the everyday economic practices of small-scale food production in Finland. Drawing on the work of feminist economic geographer J.K. Gibson-Graham and feminist naturecultures thinking by Donna Haraway, I approached food production as more-than-human livelihoods. One of the articles of the dissertation was awarded the Vuoden tiedekynä Academic Writing Award by the Kone Foundation in 2021.
I am a member in the international Community Economies Research Network and Community Economies Institute. I take part in the activities of the Finnish feminist network of political ecology and the Finnish network of sufficiency research. Additionally I am a member PALSTA (garden plot) research group as well as the network of Utopia Studies and the network of Gender Studies at the University of Eastern Finland.
As senior lecturer and adjunct professor in general history, my current research focuses on the history of university celebrations, student revolts, and on medical history, including the development of medical education at universities and colleges of higher education and changing attitudes towards medical uncertainty. My publications deal with, among other themes, the intercultural transfer of university ideas within Europe in the nineteenth century and the history of academic mobility.
Currently I am in charge of two projects dealing with “Changing attitudes towards medical uncertainty in the training of physicians from the 1880s” (NOS-HS, 2019-2022 and Academy of Finland project, 2019-2024).
Yearly I am teaching five to six courses, such as “World history since 1600”, “History of historiography and theory of history”, “History of ideas and cultural history”, “History of colonisation and decolonisation of (Central) Africa”, “History of the Baltic Sea Region”, “History of Medicine”, and Bachelor dissertation seminar.
I am a pharmaceutical chemist with my research interests now in short non-coding RNA sequences and how to mimic their function using synthetic drugs. My background is in Pharmacy, and I defended my Doctoral thesis in drug design of sirtuins in autumn 2015 in UEF. After my dissertation, I left to study molecular dynamics methods and enzyme engineering to Brno, Czech Republic. I can use all the basic tools of computational drug design, including docking and molecular dynamics simulations and up to some simple quantum chemistry calculations.
I am a doctoral researcher in the Department of Business at the University of Eastern Finland and a member of the Tourism Business Research Group. My doctoral research focuses on nature-based tourism firms, with particular emphasis on the role of nature as a key business resource, and on the role of tourism actors in preserving and enhancing the natural resources within their operating environments.
I am interested in responsible and sustainable tourism, regenerative tourism, nature-based tourism, outdoor recreation, the intangible values of nature, ecosystem services, natural resource governance, and environmental policy.
