Oleksandra Khalaim
Lecturer at Department of Womens and Childrens Health; Centre for Health and Sustainability
- E-mail:
- oleksandra.khalaim@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjöldsväg 14B, 1 tr
75237 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 Uppsala
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-6947-5181
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Biography
Oleksandra Khalaim, PhD, is graduated in Economics (2006), master’s degree in Economics (2007), master’s degree in Environmental Sciences (2010), and Ph.D. in Ecology and Environmental Sciences (2018). She has been teaching in the field of Ecology and Sustainable Development for 13 years in universities of Ukraine and Sweden. Her current research interests include education for sustainable development, climate change education and transformative learning methods in higher education, climate change adaptation and management of urban green areas. Oleksandra has been conducting a line of post-doctoral research since September 2019 at SWEDESD. Currently she is undertaking a research on climate and mental health among staff and students at Uppsala University Campus Gotland. She is also coordinating an educational project “While playing to change the world: theater and gaming techniques in sustainability teaching” at Campus Gotland and hosting a new ENLIGHT course “Adapting to Climate Change: Ecosystem Services of Urban Green Zones”.
Research
- Post-doctoral research "Balancing the Climate and Mental Health Threats: Climate-anxiety Identification by Student Health Service" (supported by Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, 2021-2024)
- Post-doctoral research “Mapping Sustainability Initiatives on Gotland” (supported by DBW Society in 2020)
- Post-doctoral research “Climate Change Education in Ukraine: a Transition Towards Education for Sustainable Development” (supported by the Swedish Institute Visby Programme 2019/2020)
Publications
Recent publications
Role play: A serious game to navigate global wicked problems
Part of Sustainability Teaching for Impact, p. 71-76, Routledge, 2025
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Forum play: Working with climate anxiety
Part of Sustainability Teaching for Impact, p. 121-128, Routledge, 2025
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Part of The Journal of Environmental Education, p. 308-323, 2024
- DOI for "It should not only be technical education.": Students' climate anxiety experiences and expectations toward university education in three European universities
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Part of Scientific Conference on Economics and Entrepreneurship Proceedings, p. 77-87, 2023
- DOI for Pedagogy of Rethinking: Teaching Students to Transform Conventional Professional Practices to Sustainable Ones
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2022
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of The Journal of Environmental Education, p. 308-323, 2024
- DOI for "It should not only be technical education.": Students' climate anxiety experiences and expectations toward university education in three European universities
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Part of Scientific Conference on Economics and Entrepreneurship Proceedings, p. 77-87, 2023
- DOI for Pedagogy of Rethinking: Teaching Students to Transform Conventional Professional Practices to Sustainable Ones
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Part of Sustainability, 2021
- DOI for Urban Green Infrastructure Inventory as a Key Prerequisite to Sustainable Cities in Ukraine under Extreme Heat Events
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Climate Change Games as an Effective Tool for ESD Practices
Part of Studia Periegetica, p. 111-122, 2017
Chapters in book
Role play: A serious game to navigate global wicked problems
Part of Sustainability Teaching for Impact, p. 71-76, Routledge, 2025
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Forum play: Working with climate anxiety
Part of Sustainability Teaching for Impact, p. 121-128, Routledge, 2025
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Adapting to Climate Change: Green Areas in Cities as Cooling Safeguards
Part of Handbook of Climate Change Management, p. 1-15, Springer, 2021
Part of Universities, Sustainabilityand Society, p. 383-403, Springer Nature, 2021
Part of Universities, Sustainability and Society, p. 253-273, Springer, 2021
Conference papers
2022
"I am not Eligible": Climate Anxiety Student Coping within University Boarders
Part of Challenges for Environmental and Sustainability Education Research in Times of Climate Crisis, p. 54-55, 2022
Mapping Sustainability Initiatives on Gotland and Campus Gotland Outreach
Part of Book of Abstracts, p. 17-17, 2021