Kirsi Sonck-Rautio

Kirsi Sonck-Rautio is a Researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics, and Law, specializing in consumer cultures and sustainability. She holds a PhD and currently works on the Package-Heroes project, focusing on food packaging and plastics through an ethnographic and political ecology lens.

Education: PhD in Social Sciences (affiliation unspecified).

Research Interests: Consumer cultures, political anthropology, sustainability (including cultural and ecological dimensions), policy-making, knowledge systems, and interdisciplinary approaches to global change and wicked problems. Recent work emphasizes youth perspectives on food systems transformation and sustainability trade-offs in packaging.

Collaborations: Active in international networks, with research outputs published in journals like Futures and Current Research in Environmental Sustainability. Engaged in peer-review activities for journals such as Ethnologia Fennica.

Grants & Projects: Involved in the Package-Heroes project, funded to investigate sustainable food packaging through consumer-centric frameworks.