As a member of the three-person InBorder research team, Storm(-Närväinen) is interested in dissecting practices of border- and borderlander governance in democratic, semi-democratic, and authoritarian regimes. The InBorder research team, made up of P.I. Prof. Christofer Berglund (Malmö University, Sweden), Prof. Ketevan Bolkvadze (Lund University, Sweden), and Storm-Närväinen (UEF, KTL), and is charged with investigating official and unofficial practices of borderland governance across three paradigmatic cases–among Russians in Estonia’s Ida-Viru region, Armenians in Georgia’s Javakheti region, and among Talysh in Azerbaijan’s Lenkaran region. Storm-Närväinen is primarily occupied with the Georgian and Azerbaijani aspects of the study, although she is involved in aspects of the desk research phase of the Estonian case as well.
Storm(-Närväinen)’s prior research focused upon the politics of memory and identity among members of ethnic/national minority groups in Georgia, namely among the Georgian Azeri-Turks of the Kvemo Kartli border region. Her geographic area of expertise is the South Caucasus and its constituent states (Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan), although her research interests have led her to undertake inquiries touching upon peoples and states in Russia and Central Asia as well. Storm-Närväinen is a native speaker of English and possesses varying levels of proficiency in the Azerbaijani, Finnish, Georgian, Kazakh, and Russian languages as well.
I hold LL.M degrees from the University of Helsinki and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). My PhD is also from the LSE, focusing on the challenges of the environment and legitimacy at the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement System.
I am also affiliated with the 3E Center at the Brussels School of Governance, the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, with the Erik Castren Institute for International Law and Human Rights at the University of Helsinki, as well as with the Earth Negotiations Bulletin / International Institute for Sustainable Development.
My main research interests are international, EU, national and comparative climate change law, as well as international economic law and international legal theory. I also very much enjoy multidisciplinary climate change research both with other social scientists and natural scientists. I work closely with the UEF Research Group on Atmospheric Physics and with other climate scientists within the Atmospheric and Climate Competence Center Flagship.
Beyond academia, I have worked as legal adviser and consultant, inter alia, for the Finnish Government, the World Bank, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, European Commission, Nordic Council of Ministers, IUCN, International Institute for Sustainable Development, International Trade Center, World Resources Institute and Nordic Environment Finance Corporation.
Working on the project “Images and Attributes of Enemies in Pre-Revolutionary Russia” (2016-2021). Some teaching, too.
My academic interests include history of mentalities and ideas, Russian history and borderland issues. My approach tends to be that of a cultural historian; I am especially interested in representations of the past, and the ways they have been used in, for instance, supporting nationalistic efforts.
I am also a freelance writer and photographer. Besides topics related to history and culture, I like to write about – and photograph – nature, environment, countryside and all kind of living creatures.
My main responsibilities relate to the Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) Alliance, which enables students and staff to study and develop their skills both in person and online across ten universities in Europe. I lead YUFE’s work package on lifelong learning and support other multilevel development initiatives connected to YUFE within our university. I am also pleased to discuss the opportunities offered by YUFE with a variety of stakeholders. In addition, I work to enhance the internationalisation of studies for our Finnish students and to support the integration of our international students through cooperation with regional, national, and international networks.
I have a special focus on pharmaceutical policy both in research and teaching. Topics of my interest include pharmacy services, medication counseling, automatic substitution of biological medicines in pharmacies, rational pharmacotherapy and patient participation in the pharmacotherapy process. I am always ready to discuss multiprofessional collaboration on these topics. I have more than eleven years of practical experience on pharmaceutical policy matters from the Finnish Medicines Agency. My contribution at the Agency centered on patient and public participation, strategic development of medicines information practices and developing pharmacy services, including research on these topics. I have wide and active networks both in academia and regulatory affairs, a strong expertise in qualitative research methodology and wide experience in conducting population surveys. My passion is to emphasize the importance of patient participation in health care and pharmaceutical policy research. There is an expert patient in my research group to guide me on this path.
Dr. Kim Fyhr is project researcher in the INTEL and FOUNDATIONS projects at the UEF Law School. Kim’s field of specialization is EU energy law, most notably the related legislative process. His research interests include inter alia the evolution of the EU energy law, EURATOM, the regulation of different technologies in sustainable energy transition and the interface between energy policy and fundamental rights. Furthermore, the interaction of different regulatory levels (international, EU and national) in energy policy-making is of special interest to him. This also covers the legal theoretical dimension. Kim has published in peer reviewed journals in the fields of EU law and nuclear energy law. His legal empirical doctoral dissertation of European constitutional law ‘Making Fundamental Rights a Reality in EU legislative Process’ dealt with how fundamental rights are taken into account in drafting secondary EU legislation. Kim has also contributed to many Finnish professional journals with articles and texts on energy policy and law. Prior to joining UEF Law School, Kim coordinated the Finnish three-year term in the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency at the Embassy of Finland in Vienna (MFA). For almost a decade, he served at the Permanent Mission of Finland to the EU in Brussels (MFA) first as energy counsellor and later, during the Finnish EU Council Presidency of 2019 as the head of relations with the European Parliament. Kim also has a long professional experience from Fortum Corporation, the Ministry of Employment and the Economy (Energy Department) and the Ministry of the Environment (Department of Environmental Protection) and the Doctoral Programme of Helsinki School of Economics. Over the years, Kim has on several occasions functioned as an expert in the Finnish Parliament – in particular in the Commerce Committee and the Environment Committee – on topics of EU and EURATOM legislation. A Finnish national, Kim holds Doctor of Laws (University of Helsinki 2017), Licentiate in Laws (University of Turku 2008) and Master of Social Science (University of Helsinki 2001) degrees. In addition, he has completed a Diplôme d’Université de troisième cycle en droit nucléaire international (University of Montpellier 2015).
My research focuses particularly on the guidance offered in schools and educational institutions and the implementation of the principle of the whole school approach to guidance. In addition to the context of general upper secondary school education, my expertise includes theoretical and methodological discussions of agency and guidance.
