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Since the opening of the Arctic Graduate School in 2022, there are 16 Doctoral students hired at the School. They are all conducting research projects with an Arctic approach.
Doctoral students and their research projects, sorted by faculty.
Faculty of Arts
Department of Language Studies
Linguistic Sustainability in the North. Language Policy and Planning with Regards to Sámi Languages
Started in 2022
Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Sámi History and Education – Israel Ruong: a scientific biography
Started in 2022
Department of Language Studies
Linguistic Sustainability in the North. Language Policy and Planning with Regards to Meänkieli
Started in 2022
Department of Creative Studies
Work as, and recruitment of, teachers within the aesthetic subjects in Arctic Sweden
Started in 2023
Department of Culture and Media Studies
Media representations of a sustainable Swedish North – Journalism, places and practices in transition
Started in 2022
Faculty of Medicine
Department of Clinical Microbiology
Impacts of environmental changes in risk of infection with Puumala orthohantavirus in northern Fennoscandinavia
Started in 2022
Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine
Health effects of cold exposure in the Arctic climate with a focus on a sustainable working life
Started in 2022
Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Ecology and Environmental Science (EMG)
Sustainable mining in the Arctic
Started in 2022
Faculty of Social Sciences
Unit of Economic History
Started in 2024
Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics
Community entrepreneurship and exclusion in rural peripheries: case studies from the Swedish Arctic
Started in 2023
Department of Geography
An Arctic labour market in transformation – The establishment of "green industries" in Arctic Sweden and its impacts on sustainable regional development
Started in 2022
Department of Political Science
Transformation, Riskification and Geopolitics in the Arctic
Started in 2022
Department of Food, Nutrition and Culinary Science
Started in 2022
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Doctoral projects at the Arctic Graduate School