Astrid Sofia Huopalainen
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.
