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.
Mahitsonge Nomusa Ntinga,
Harsha Kathard,
Filip Maric,
Kristen Abrahams,
Seyi Ladele Amosun
:
Ukuyankaza kuyi-Nkululeko, Movement is freedom: Journeying towards autoethnography as a transformative qualitative research methodology
2025 DOI
David A. Nicholls,
Matthew Low,
Filip Maric
:
The possibilities for a posthuman physiotherapy
2025 DOI
Katharina Bopp,
Natalie Michel,
Hanna Brandt,
Filip Maric,
Andrea Pfingsten
:
Die Komplexität nachhaltiger Physiotherapie
01. March 2025 DOI
Clair Hebron,
Shirley Chubb,
David Nicholls,
Toby Bain,
Valentin C. Dones,
Lena Gudd
et al.:
Staying With the Trouble, a Rhizomatic Approach to Posthuman Methods: Assemblages and Becoming in the Posthuman Walking Project
Qualitative Health Research 19. September 2025 DOI
Richard Doran-Sherlock,
Payal Sood,
Nicole Anne Struthers,
Filip Maric
:
Challenges in Nature-Based Health and Therapy Research and Critical Considerations for Application in Musculoskeletal Health
Frontiers in Public Health 2025 DOI
Helga E Lister,
Karien Mostert,
Gopika Ramkilawon,
Cathrine Oelschig,
Olwethu Ntiyan,
Erika Richardt
et al.:
Namibian Healthcare Professionals’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Regarding Environmental Sustainability in Healthcare
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) 2025 DOI
Katharina Bopp,
Laura Haase,
Filip Maric
:
Physiotherapiewissenschaft umfassend verstehen: Ein angewandter Überblick über verschiedene Forschungsparadigmen (Teil 1)
Laura Haase,
Katharina Bopp,
Filip Maric
:
Physiotherapiewissenschaft umfassend verstehen: Ein angewandter Überblick über verschiedene Forschungsparadigmen (Teil 2)
Helga E Lister,
Karien Mostert,
Botha Tanita,
Emma Field,
Danté Knock,
Natasha Mubi
et al.:
Development and validation of a Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) questionnaire for healthcare professionals on environmental sustainability in healthcare in Southern Africa
F1000 Research 2024 DOI
Giuliana Panieri,
Zeynep Sancak Sert,
Filip Maric,
Margherita Paola Poto,
Emily Margaret Murray
:
The Ocean Senses Activity Book: Enriching Ocean Literacy through a multisensory approach
Filip Maric,
Mila Plaisant,
Robert Richter
:
Advancing the deliberate implementation of the concept of sustainability and its alternatives in physical therapy research, practice, and education
Filip Maric,
Enrique Henny,
Nick Pollard,
Sandra Schiller
:
Occupational Punk Vol 3: Everyday Odyssey
Environmental Physiotherapy Association 2025 DOI
Filip Maric
:
Die Nachhaltigkeitsziele der UN im Spiegel der Wissenschaft: Beispiele aus der Sozial- und Gesundheitsforschung | SpringerLink
Springer Nature 2025 DOI
Filip Maric,
Jessica Stanhope
:
Putting environmental physiotherapy in practice in our own backyard (Invited pre-conference workshop)
22. October 2025
Filip Maric
:
Environmental physiotherapy–Recent developments and future perspectives for the transformation of health (Invited Keynote)
25. October 2025
Catherine Duggan,
Teddie Potter,
Filip Maric,
Edward Krisiunas,
Steven Mulligan
:
World Environment Day: Healthcare Professionals Supporting Environmental Efforts
2025 DOI
Filip Maric,
Steinunn Olafsdottir,
Annie Palstam,
Berta Paz-Lourido,
Richard Doran-Sherlock
:
Connecting the dots: Environmental physiotherapy and service learning (webinar)
2025 DOI
Filip Maric,
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay
:
Extreme Ontologies and the Limits of Science
2025 DOI
Filip Maric
:
Extreme Environments and Health | UiT
2025 DOI
Berta Paz-Lourido,
Filip Maric
:
Connecting the dots in physiotherapy: reframing the role of the profession in the Anthropocene
Frontiers in Public Health 24. September 2025 DOI
Andrea Ribeiro,
João Paulo Venâncio,
Filip Maric
:
Fisioterapia Ambiental
2025 DOI
Anne-Kathrin Rausch Osthoff,
Filip Maric
:
Physiotherapeut*innen als Klima- und Umweltakteure*innen: ein neues Handlungsfeld mit besonderer Dringlichkeit
physioscience 2024 DOI
Emma Swärdh,
Filip Maric
:
From Knowledge to Action: Fostering Advocacy Skills for Planetary Health in Physical Therapy
2024 DOI
Filip Maric
:
Fremtidens pensjonister
2024
Kargela Mark,
Filip Maric,
Stanhope Jessica
:
Healing Outside Clinic Walls: Harnessing the Environment in Pain Care – Podcast with Maric, F. & Stanhope, J.
07. October 2024 FULLTEKST
Filip Maric,
Richard Doran-Sherlock,
Jessica Stanhope,
Betina Ringby,
Louise Sofia Madsen
:
Putting nature-based health and therapy into practice - an international online symposium: Session 2
16. November 2024 FULLTEKST
Filip Maric,
Marcalee Alexander,
Amy Wagenfeld,
Lotta Lundmark Alfredsson,
Laura Hergott
:
Putting nature-based health and therapy into practice - an international online symposium: Session 3
16. November 2024 FULLTEKST
Filip Maric
:
Children’s health, climate change, and health care responsibilities (Invited Keynote)
2024
Filip Maric,
Eivind Engebretsen,
Kristin Heggen,
Marit Øilo,
Tora Bonnevie
:
Samarbeid om bærekraft i helseutdanningene
2024 DOI
Filip Maric,
Augustine Appah Acquah,
Donald Manlapaz,
Jessica Stanhope
:
Environmental Physical Therapy (Invited Focussed Symposium)
2024
Filip Maric,
Matthew Low,
Danielle Munford,
Joost Van Wijchen
:
Environmental Physiotherapy: A Transformative Ecological Movement Toward Planetary Health (Focussed Symposium)
2024
Filip Maric
:
Making Planetary Health Tangible for the Health Professions
2024
Filip Maric,
Margherita Paola Poto,
Giuliana Panieri,
Mohammad Abniki,
Fereshteh Hemmateenejad
:
Human impact: Plastic pollution. In G. Panieri, M. Stiller-Reeve, M. Abniki and F. Hemmateenejad (Eds.), The Ocean Senses Activity Book (Persian version)
Septentrio Educational 2024 DOI
Filip Maric,
Margherita Paola Poto,
Giuliana Panieri,
Mohammad Abniki,
Fereshteh Hemmateenejad
:
How deep is the ocean? In G. Panieri, M. Stiller-Reeve, M. Abniki and F. Hemmateenejad (Eds.), The Ocean Senses Activity Book (Persian version)
Septentrio Educational 2024 DOI
Filip Maric,
Margherita Paola Poto,
Giuliana Panieri,
Mohammad Abniki,
Fereshteh Hemmateenejad
:
Human impact: Ecological footprints. In G. Panieri, M. Stiller-Reeve, M. Abniki and F. Hemmateenejad (Eds.), The Ocean Senses Activity Book (Persian version)
Septentrio Educational 2024 DOI
Filip Maric,
Margherita Paola Poto,
Giuliana Panieri,
Mohammad Abniki,
Fereshteh Hemmateenejad
:
Under pressure. In G. Panieri, M. Stiller-Reeve, M. Abniki and F. Hemmateenejad (Eds.), The Ocean Senses Activity Book (Persian version)
Septentrio Educational 2024 DOI
Filip Maric,
Margherita Paola Poto,
Jane Zimmermann,
Giuliana Panieri,
Mohammad Abniki,
Fereshteh Hemmateenejad
:
Ocean floor diorama. In G. Panieri, M. Stiller-Reeve, M. Abniki and F. Hemmateenejad (Eds.), The Ocean Senses Activity Book (Persian version)
Septentrio Educational 2024 DOI
Filip Maric,
Augustine Appah Acquah
:
Expanding environmental concerns in physiotherapy in occupational health and ergonomics (Invited Webinar)
2024
Fanny Poget,
Tobba Sudmann,
Joost Van Wijchen,
Robert Richter,
Filip Maric
:
Advancing the development of musculoskeletal physiotherapy through environmental awareness
2024
Filip Maric,
Margherita Paola Poto,
Giuliana Panieri,
Mohammad Abniki,
Fereshteh Hemmateenejad
:
Where is the (ancient) ocean floor? In G. Panieri, M. Stiller-Reeve, M. Abniki and F. Hemmateenejad (Eds.), The Ocean Senses Activity Book (Persian version)
Septentrio Educational 2024 DOI
Filip Maric,
Margherita Paola Poto,
Jane Zimmermann,
Giuliana Panieri,
Mohammad Abniki,
Fereshteh Hemmateenejad
:
Sculpting foraminifera. In G. Panieri, M. Stiller-Reeve, M. Abniki and F. Hemmateenejad (Eds.), The Ocean Senses Activity Book (Persian version)
Septentrio Educational 2024 DOI
Filip Maric,
Margherita Paola Poto,
Giuliana Panieri,
Mohammad Abniki,
Fereshteh Hemmateenejad
:
Sedimentation. In G. Panieri, M. Stiller-Reeve, M. Abniki and F. Hemmateenejad (Eds.), The Ocean Senses Activity Book (Persian version)
Septentrio Educational 2024 DOI
Filip Maric,
Margherita Paola Poto,
Jane Zimmermann,
Giuliana Panieri,
Mohammad Abniki,
Fereshteh Hemmateenejad
:
Sculpting micro-, meio-, and macrofauna. In G. Panieri, M. Stiller-Reeve, M. Abniki and F. Hemmateenejad (Eds.), The Ocean Senses Activity Book (Persian version)
Septentrio Educational 2024 DOI
Filip Maric,
Margherita Paola Poto,
Giuliana Panieri,
Mohammad Abniki,
Fereshteh Hemmateenejad
:
Arctic Ocean temperatures. In G. Panieri, M. Stiller-Reeve, M. Abniki and F. Hemmateenejad (Eds.), The Ocean Senses Activity Book (Persian version)
Septentrio Educational 2024 DOI
Solmaz Mohadjer,
Giuliana Panieri,
Mathew Alexander Stiller-Reeve,
Vibeke Aune,
Monica Clerici,
Villads Dyrved Holm
et al.:
OceanSenses 2022: Using Our Primary Senses to Connect with the Arctic Ocean
2023
Filip Maric
:
Environmental Physiotherapy - Nuances in the implementation of sustainable healthcare (Invited Parallel Session)
2023
Filip Maric,
Lucy Inyang Edet,
Augustine Appah Acquah
:
Advancing environmental physiotherapy in West Africa (Invited Focussed Symposium)
2023
Filip Maric
:
Environmental physiotherapy – recent developments and the way forward (Invited Panel Presentation)
2023
Filip Maric
:
Implementering av bærekraft i global fysioterapeututdanning [Implementing sustainability in global physiotherapy education]. Invited Keynote
2023
Filip Maric,
Margherita Paola Poto,
Giuliana Panieri
:
Human impact: ecological footprints. In G. Panieri & M. Stiller-Reeve (Eds.), The Ocean Senses Activity Book
Septentrio Educational 2023 DOI
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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
Member of project
Advancing Knowledge of Methane in the Arctic
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
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