Research Collaboration

The Arctic Five universities form a comprehensive research alliance that comprises thousands of researchers, many of them standing at the forefront of their respective academic fields.

Cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary research is being stimulated in different ways within the Arctic Five consortium, the most recent and extensive effort being our Chairs and Fellows initiative.

Another cornerstone of our research collaboration is the close dialogue with national and regional agencies, local authorities and indigenous communities. The Arctic Five also have an ambition to excel at outreach and to lead the way by negotiating and communicating a shared understanding of the desired future of the Arctic.

Arctic Five Chairs

The Arctic Five Chairs will be key figures in a collective effort to address common challenges facing the Arctic region. The universities are making a strategic commitment to establish new forms of bottom-up collaboration between scholars, bridging institutional and national borders.

Arctic Five chair in			Project
Sámi and Indigenous Peoples Law		Christina Allard	Dynamics of land use tensions in the Scandinavian Arctic
Healthy Ageing and One Health		Anastasia Emelyanova	Researching healthy ageing and age-friendly communities
Feminist STS		Mervi Heikkinen	Feminisms, Epistemes and Techno-Sciences – Contributing for more-than Human in the Arctic
Security Studies		Gunhild Hoogensen Gjörv	The Civilian Effect
Glaciology		Alun Hubbard	Arctic Rainmaker
Just Green Transition		Tanja Joona	Just green transformation
Archaeology		Malcolm Lillie	In Situ Preservation in a Changing Environment
Inclusive and Equitable Education		Gregor Maxwell	Digital Inclusive Arctic Education DIAEd
Indigenous Studies		Torjer Olsen	Working together – Sámi and Indigenous studies across the borders
Sociology of Work		Karolina Parding	Hot as Hell – Sustainable Skills Supply Strategies as Key to Structural Transformation of the Labour Market in the Arctic
Occupational Medicine		Hans Petterson	Occupational Health Challenges and Solutions in the Arctic and subarctic regions
Environmental History		Janina Priebe	Arctic futures through the lens of global sustainability transformation
Tourism and Climate Emergency		Outi Rantala	Rethinking tourism in climate emergency
Architecture and Planning		Agatino Rizzo	Smart and Sustainable Arctic Towns: aligning top-down and bottom-up urban sustainability in the Arctic
Sámi Health		Miguel San Sebastián	Sámi dearvvasvuođa fierpmádat”: establishing a Sámi Health Network (SámiHNet) in Sápmi

Arctic Five Fellows

The Arctic Five Fellows initiative aims to support emerging scholars’ entry into fields of Arctic research and research cooperation. The first Call for Fellows is planned for late 2022. Read more about the upcoming call

Thematic Areas

Arctic Five collaborations are developed within and across the key focus areas of Energy, Health and Well-being, Mining, Regional development, Teacher education, and issues relating to the Sápmi / Indigenous people.

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