Astrid Sofia Huopalainen

Assistant Professor

E706 Dept. Management Studies

Astrid Huopalainen is an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the field of Leadership for Creativity, in the Department of Management Studies and the Department of Art and Media. Her research is within organization theory, Animal Organization Studies, and critical management studies, with a particularly keen interest in arts-based, posthumanist practice-based and processual approaches to issues of work and more-than-human organizing.

She serves as the Consortium Principal Investigator of the Research Council of Finland-funded multidisciplinary consortium project "PAWWS - People and Animal Wellbeing at Work and in Society" (2023-2027). The PAWWS project is a pioneering multidisciplinary collaboration, advancing research in Animal Organization Studies (AOS), Veterinary Science, and Social and Healthcare Sciences in novel and ground-breaking ways. PAWWS aims to develop insights into interconnected human-animal wellbeing at work; improve ethical working conditions for animals, and advance a multispecies approach to wellbeing in policy and practice.

Huopalainen also studies issues related to embodiment at work, everyday creativity, creative labour in the post-industrial era, and gender and diversity-related inequalities in organizations.

Full researcher profile

https://research.aalto.fi/...

astrid.huopalainen@aalto.fi

Postal address

Ekonominaukio 1 02150 Espoo Finland

Phone number

+358504211883

Areas of expertise

, Liiketaloustiede

Honors and awards

PAWWS - People and Animal Wellbeing at Work and in Society

Knowledge about human-animal work and multispecies wellbeing at work remains limited. PAWWS fosters cross-disciplinary collaboration between Animal Organization Studies, Veterinary Science and Social and Healthcare Sciences to study human and animal wellbeing at work in novel, integrated and groundbreaking ways. Empirically, we will focus on human-dog working relations in organizations, such as service-, therapy-, pain- and cancer dogs at work. Our data will be collected through mixed methods. Project PAWWS creates in-depth understanding and new knowledge about multispecies wellbeing, animal voice and agency in human-animal work. The project contributes especially to Animal Organization Studies, Veterinary and Medical studies and Social and Healthcare Sciences. Practical and societal impacts are considered, such as developing a DogWork logo and animal welfare certification, and ethical (non)human relations in organizations.

Myönnetty rahoitus (julkiset tutkimusapurahat) Johtamisen laitos May 2023

Research groups

Organisaatiot ja johtaminen, Apulaisprofessori