Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo (Doctor of Social Sciences) is a university lecturer in Political Sciences at the University of Lapland. She has recently joined the AECED project (Transforming Education for Democracy through Aesthetic and Embodied Learning, Responsive Pedagogies and Democracy-as-becoming, Horizon Europe, 2023–2026) as a collaborative investigator.

Her research interests relate to body politics, feminist and new materialist thought, and (post)qualitative methodologies. She has explored gendered and cultural politics of religion, as well as the relationships between academic writing, dance, and the moving body. Most recently, she has been enquiring into the politics of human milk. In the AECED project, she engages with radical democratic thinking and democracy-as becoming in terms of assemblages in movement. She is keen on both researching and fostering transformative pedagogical practices in higher education.

You can read more about AECED at: www.aeced.org