Filip Maric
Job description
Filip Maric (PhD) is Associate Professor in physiotherapy at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. His teaching and research activities span sustainability, planetary health, environmental physiotherapy, critical theory, transformative change, and the environmental posthumanities.
Filip is the founder and executive chair of the Environmental Physiotherapy Association (EPA) and the project lead of the EPT Agenda – an international project uniting over 100 universities to integrate environmental and sustainability perspectives into physiotherapy education.
Filip also co-founded the UiT Environmental Humanities research group that brings together researchers and students from the majority of UiT's faculties in an effort to explore today's interconnected social and ecological challenges in a transdisciplinary manner.
As a member of the UiT Sustainability Team Filip also contributes to the development and implementation of UiTs sustainability strategy.
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Research interests
Research interests:
- Planetary Health, EcoHealth, One Health, sustainable healthcare, environmental physiotherapy
- Critical theory, ethics, environmental post/humanities
- Post/qualitative research
Current research projects:
- The Environmental Physiotherapy Agenda 2027; cross-curricular implementation of planetary health, environmental and sustainability education in global physiotherapy training. Environmental Physiotherapy Association; Role: Project lead / Principal Investigator
- Healthpunk - Speculative Fiction for the Future of Health, Role: Project lead / Principal Investigator
- EXTREMES: The Extreme project aims to develop and disseminate a transformative interdisciplinary approach to studying Extreme Environments in the Arctic regions and beyond. The project is granted by UArctic (UA 06/2024, from 01-01-2025 to 31-12-2026) and it is a collaboration between UiT The Arctic University of Norway, (Department of Geosciences), the University of Copenhagen (Department of Arts and Cultural Studies) and the University of Iceland Research Centre in Þingeyjarsveit. Role: member researcher.
Past projects:
- The Posthuman Walking Project: The multiplicity of walking with pain in diverse landscapes of care. Project leads: Dr Shirley Chubb, University of Chichester, UK, & Dr Clair Hebron, University of Brighton, UK. Role: Partner university/researcher.
- The Environmental Physiotherapy Agenda 2023; implementing planetary health, environmental and sustainability education in global physiotherapy training. Environmental Physiotherapy Association; Role: Project lead / Principal Investigator
- Advancing Knowledge of Methane in the Arctic (AKMA): https://en.uit.no/project/akma. Role: Co-researcher in AKMA 2 OceanSenses 2022 cruise: Exploring extreme environments with a focus on science and education. Publications list: https://app.cristin.no/projects/show.jsf?id=2528466
Teaching
Filip Maric (PhD) teaches around the following topics in the UiT Bachelor programme in physiotherapy:
- Society and public health
- Sustainable healthcare, Planetary Health and Environmental Physiotherapy
- Occupational Health
- Qualitative research methods
- Research skills and supervision of Bachelor projects
Additionally, Filip is delivering courses in sustainability education in higher education at UiT RESULT Center for teaching, learning and technology, and has previously offered these at UiO University of Oslo LINK Centre for Learning, Innovation & Academic Development.
Member of research group / centre
Member of project
Environmental Physiotherapy - Advancing sustainability and environmental responsibility in healthcare
Healthpunk - Speculative fiction for socially and environmentally responsible healthcare
Environmental Physiotherapy Agenda 2027 - Sustainable healthcare and planetary health education across the curriculum