Dr S.E. Määttä (Senni)

Dr Senni Määttä is a social and public policy researcher with a PhD in Environmental Planning. Her research has focused on social perspectives to decarbonization challenges and the role of the public in socio-technical transitions. She has advanced a systemic understanding of decarbonization challenges through the concept of ‘Whole-of-Society approach’.

In her PhD, Senni studied the governance of public involvement in the energy transition in The Republic of Ireland and Scotland, adapting the Governmentality approach, the Whole-of-Society approach, multi-stakeholder analysis, and diverse qualitative methods.

Currently, as a researcher in the Calby2030 project her work focuses on societal aspects of industrial decarbonization through carbon capture and storage, and analysis of stakeholder dynamics. Her work aims to provide insights and solutions to the social aspects of implementing carbon capture and storage as a part of decarbonization approaches.

• Transformative Sustainable Change in Action