Arctic Centre at Umeå University

Doctoral student in Business Administration with focus on community entrepreneurship in the rural Arctic

I coordinate the activities of the Arctic Graduate School and other Arctic education activities. My academic backgrounds are Cognitive Science, Computer Science and Psychology.

Freja has a background as a medical doctor and ecologist, with a particular  interest in the Arctic. She is a PhD student in Infectious Disease Epidemiology in Magnus Evander’s group.

In my PhD project, I explore adolescents' views on sustainable food and the role of sensory food explorations for adolescents' relations with food. 

I am a PhD student in educational work. My research project concerns how the place affects teachers within compulsory school’s aesthetic subjects in rural Arctic Sweden.

I am a PhD student in linguistics specializing in language policy and planning related to the national minority language Meänkieli.

Director of the Arctic Centre at Umeå University, Coordinator of the Climate Impacts Research Centre, and transdisciplinary ecologist studying how environmental change impacts Arctic ecosystems.

Doctor of Public Health. Member of the research group Lávvuo – Research and Education for Sámi Health. Since 2013, I also work on research strategy at the Arctic Centre.

PhD Student in linguistics with focus on language policy and planning regarding the Sámi languages.

I became PhD in 2006 and associate professor in 2011. I have since worked at the Department of Geography in a number of research projects but also with teaching and pedagogical issues.

PhD student in History and Education.

I am researching children’s upbringing conditions and how they impact health and well-being later in life using longitudinal data.

My research concerns media, journalism and sustainability, with a focus on media discourses about the so-called green reindustrialisation and societal transition of the Swedish North.

Communications Officer, and Web Editor at the Arctic Centre. I am responsible for the external communication on social media, in newsletters, and on our website. 

My PhD project looks at the health effects of cold exposure in arctic climates with a focus on a sustainable working life. The project is part of the Arctic research school.

Deputy Director at the Arctic Centre and research communications officer at the department of geography.