Rate My Professor Riikka Hohti

Hohti's research centers on childhood studies, multispecies research, sustainability science, and education from a more-than-human perspective, addressing child-animal relations, materiality, temporality, atmospheres, museum pedagogy, feminist care ethics, and education in the Anthropocene. She leads the "Children of the Anthropocene – Atmospheres" project funded by the Kone Foundation (2022-2026) and the Academy of Finland project "Figurations of the child and more than human politics of childhood for the post-Anthropocene: The fossil, the microbe, the weather" (2024-2027) as Principal Investigator. Her key publications include "‘Do the next thing’: an interview with Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre on post-qualitative methodology" (2015), "Lollipop stories: Listening to children’s voices in the classroom and narrative ethnographical research" (2014), "The greenhouse effect: Multispecies childhood and non-innocent relations of care" (2019), "Children writing ethnography: children's perspectives and nomadic thinking in researching school classrooms" (2016), "‘For whom? By whom?’: Critical perspectives of participation in ecological citizen science" (2022), and "Composting storytelling: An approach for critical (multispecies) ethnography" (2024). She has received the World Cultural Council Special Recognition Award (2023), Vuoden museopedagoginen teko (2021), Vuoden paras artikkeli (2018, shared), and Väitöskirjapalkinto (2017). Hohti has edited research journals and special theme issues and served on the scientific committee for the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (2024).