About us (under construction)
PROJECT PARTNERS
Researcher
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)
Stine is a social anthropologist with an interest in human–nature relations and collaborative nature management processes grounded in Indigenous and local ways of knowing. Informed by relational perspectives and postcolonial thinking, she is attentive to the role of power, exclusion, knowledge-making and care in more-than-human practices.
Collaboration across knowledge systems and disciplines is central to Stine’s work, reflecting a commitment to more inclusive and responsible ways of living within a shared, multispecies world.
Director of infrastructure and tourism development,
National pilgrim centre.
Mattias Jansson holds a Master’s degree in nature-based tourism from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), with a specialization in the sustainable development of the St. Olav Ways in Norway. He has worked at the National Pilgrim Centre since 2013, where he is currently Director of Professional Affairs, leading the development of infrastructure and tourism. Mattias also has extensive and wide-ranging experience in general development work within nature-based tourism, including many years of professional practice
as a nature guide in numerous countries.
Acting Managing Director /Head of Department
National pilgrim centre
Guro has an academic background in comparative religion, with a particular focus on the revival of pilgrimage in Norway. She has worked both operationally and administratively with the St. Olav Ways in Norway for more than ten years and is currently the acting head of the National Pilgrim Centre, a state-run public body responsible for pilgrimage development in Norway. She is also actively engaged in international collaboration within the European pilgrim route community.
Researcher, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)
Tuva is a psychologically oriented anthropologist with a particular interest in people’s relations with more-than-human worlds, and how these relations are influenced by digital technologies and sensory experiences. Her work aligns closely with EcoPil’s focus on walking and sensing as restorative practices, foregrounding individuals’ embodied, affective, and relational engagements in nature.
Tuva is committed to creative methodologies that enable intimate insights into lived experiences as they unfold in people’s daily lives. She also values interdisciplinary collaboration as a way to challenge disciplinary boundaries and disrupt habitual modes of thinking.
Researcher, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)
Lise is a conservation biologist and ecologist. Recently, her work has been focused on conservation and nature monitoring, and the development of tools and national standards and protocols for nature management and conservation. When out in the field collecting data, which is an important part of her research, she is a vegetation ecologist by training, but with a broad ecological interest.
As a conservationist, she also takes a profound interest in learning how people interact with nature, and how targeted communication and education can help make people more aware of nature, learn and be eager to learn about nature, and through that develop an intrinsic desire to take care of it.
Research collaborators
Bryan S.R. Grimwood
Michela J. Stinson
Chris E. Hurst
Veera Kinnunen
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