 | Rauna Kuokkanen, University of Lapland, PI Research profile Rauna Kuokkanen, or Fierranjot Kirstte Rávdná, SápmiDem’s PI and lead for Work Package 3. She is Research Professor of Arctic Indigenous Studies at the University of Lapland and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on comparative Indigenous politics, Indigenous feminist theory, governance, law, Nordic settler colonialism, and the energy transition in Sápmi. She’s Sámi from the Deatnu River. | |
 | Andrei Marin, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, WP1 lead Research profile Andrei Marin is an Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He works at the interface of environmental and social change. His current research and teaching focus on institutional dynamics, green transformation, rights and power in the broader context of environmental governance. | |
 | Kaisa Raitio, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, WP2 lead Research profile Kaisa Raitio is an Associate Professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Her work focuses on the politics of natural resources, in particular on conflicts around mining, forestry and indigenous peoples’ rights in Sweden, Finland and Canada. Her research focuses on deepening our understanding of the constructive potential of environmental conflicts for social change, and exploring ways for implementing the internationally recognised indigenous peoples rights of the Sámi in natural resource policies and practices. | |
 | Iiris Tuominen, University of Lapland, WP3 Research profile Iiris Tuominen is a postdoctoral fellow and project coordinator in SápmiDem at the University of Lapland. Her research is situated in the fields of legal theory and legal philosophy, focusing on international human rights law and EU law. Her PhD dissertation focused on the rights of sexual minorities. She has also worked extensively on issues related to Sámi cultural heritage and Indigenous research ethics. | |
 | Rasmus Kløcker Larsen, Stockholm Environment Institute, WP2 Research profile Rasmus Kløcker Larsen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute. His research focuses broadly on the ethics, practices and politics in the governance of land and water, notably in conflicts and negotiations over rights claims, drawing on critical social theory and participatory and action-oriented research methodologies. | |
 | Annette Löf, Stockholm Environment Institute, WP2 Research profile Annette Löf is a Senior Research Fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute. Her research concerns environmental justice, conflict and sustainability, with particular emphasis on Indigenous Sámi rights and livelihoods, including reindeer herding. | |
 | Láilá Susanne Vars, Sámi allaskuvla, WP1 Láilá Susanne Vars is Sámi human rights expert who has worked as a legal adviser for the Sámi Parliament in Norway and served as the member of the UN Expert Mechanism of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP). She currently works at the Sámi Parliament in Norway as Senior Advisor for the Parliamentary Administration and Elections. She previously served as the rector of the Sámi allaskuvla – Sámi University of Applied Sciences. She is also a Commissioner of the Truth Commission for the Sámi People in Sweden. | |
 | Eedla Rahikainen, University of Lapland, WP3 Research profile Eedla Rahikainen is a PhD student in SápmiDem’s Work Package 3 at the University of Lapland. | |
 | Kukka Ranta, University of Lapland, WP3 Research profile Kukka Ranta is a PhD student and research assistant in SápmiDem at the University of Lapland. She examines Sámi rights in the energy transition and settler colonialist social structures in Finnish society. Previously, she worked at Amnesty Finland as an advisor on Sámi rights and as a researcher and research coordinator in a joint project between Amnesty and the Sámi Council on Just Transition in Sápmi. | |
 | Tessa Laven, University of Arts London (visiting researcher at SEI, 2025) Research profile Tessa is a visiting researcher from University of Arts London where she is undertaking a PhD in the space of ‘design for transitions’ as part of the EU-Funded CoDesign4Transition doctoral network. Her research explores the role of design to enable just and equitable climate transitions. She assists SEI colleagues in exploring best practices to Sámi democratic engagement and ‘design perspectives’ related to power and participatory practices. | |