In this text, WDRG doctoral candidate Thomas Banafa writes about combining entrepreneurship and doctoral studies. I started my own consulting company a little over two years ago after six years of working as a design engineer at a large…
In this blog post WDRG post-doc Laura Verbrugge reflects on the role of researchers in transdisciplinary research projects on water. Solving wicked problems in water management requires collaboration of various actors and the integration of knowledge from diverse sources and research disciplines. Such processes, also referred to as knowledge co-production, help to establish a common understanding…
Amy Fallon and Marko Kallio investigate a recent environmental report in the Mekong basin and discuss constructive ways forward for science and cooperation in the region. This post was originally published by The Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS) within the Faculty…
Juho Haapala is a former and current Water and Development Research Group member, who had his defence in 2018 about governing water for local development. After the graduation, he spent two years in rural Nepal working in water-related governmental water projects…
Vilma Sandström has a PhD in Environmental Science and she is passioned about using science and research as tools to work for more sustainable societies. Food systems and their sustainability challenges have been in the focus of her research. In…
In mid-August Aino Peltola, Elina Lehikoinen and Matias Heino from Aalto University’s Water and Environmental Research Group got an exciting change to their regular schedule, when a group of secondary school students visited the laboratory to learn about water-related phenomena…
Climate oscillations are weather cycles, where atmospheric or oceanic conditions, such as sea surface temperature (SST) or atmospheric pressure, fluctuate regularly. These fluctuations are often related to changes in temperature and precipitation patterns even far away, through so-called teleconnections. The…