An Arctic Five Chair is an established scholar from an Arctic Five university, who leads a project which supports the alliance’s objectives to advance and share knowledge, develop education, undertake research and create innovations for the development of our region and a sustainable Arctic.
Each chair has either an ongoing research and/or educational collaboration with colleagues at other Arctic Five universities, or who is in the process of establishing such a partnership.
Scroll down to meet our Chairs and learn about their projects.
Christina Allard
Associate Professor of Law Luleå University of Technology
ProjectProject Entitled 'Dynamics of land use tensions in the Scandinavian Arctic', the project aims to understand why and how conflicts, tensions and cooperation over land use emerge and develop in the Scandinavian Arctic over time, with emphasis on Sápmi and local relations / global and national trends.
ProjectProjectResearching healthy ageing and age-friendly communities, this project will focus on the human-environmental relationships and promoting sustainable development in the Nordic Arctic region. The design of the planned empirical research is cross-sectional and involve a tailored questionnaire to the cohort of older residents in various scale urban and rural settlements.
Mervi Heikkinen
Docent Dr, University Researcher Oulu University
ProjectProjectEntitled 'Feminisms, Epistemes and Techno-Sciences – Contributing for more-than Human in the Arctic', and with the main topic of Gender and Intersectional analysis in the Arctic knowledge production. The project seeks to answer the research question: How intersectional gender equality is intertwined in Arctic knowledge production processes and research results - Arctic knowledges?
Professor of Critical Peace and Conflict Studies UiT The Arctic University of Norway
ProjectProjectEntitled 'The Civilian Effect', the project combines three innovative foci – hybrid threats in the Arctic, civilian roles in hybrid threats, and a gendered and intersectional approach to understanding the civilian domain in hybrid threats.
Professor of Glaciology UiT The Arctic University of Norway
ProjectProjectThis project will develop a collaborative Pan-Arctic Climate Mass-balance Applied Network to quantify changes in snow/rain patterns and their impact on future ice loss and global sea-level rise.
Tanja Joona
Senior researcher, Docent in International Law University of Lapland
ProjectProjectEntitled 'Just green transformation: collaboration, co-production and co-existence in the Arctic / JAGT - Network', the project is strongly linked to the debate on climate change and natural resources.
ProjectProjectThe project question asks, can regionally specific drivers of change be determined through the analysis of locations with differing natural and anthropogenic impacts through evaluation of sites that are situated in differing wetland/dryland conditions/locations?
Associate Professor in Inclusive education UiT The Arctic University of Norway
ProjectProjectEntitled 'Digital Inclusive Arctic Education / DIAEd', the project will combine the research intentions of investigating transformative teacher identity in engaging with all students in the digital environment, and the teaching of inclusive Arctic education.
Torjer Olsen
Professor / Academic director UiT The Arctic University of Norway
ProjectProjectThis project represents the development and initial steps towards a joint multidisciplinary and collaborative research project on Sápmi and Indigenous matters, while working towards a joint PhD conference for the study of Sámi and Indigenous issues, and the further development of methodological and theoretical perspectives in Sámi research.
ProjectProjectEntitled 'Hot as hell - Sustainable skills supply strategies as key to structural transformation at the labour market in the Arctic', the project seeks to answer, among other, the question of 'What successful local community / municipality attraction strategies can be identified, in terms of attracting new individuals and families to the region, as well as retaining existing ones?'
ProjectProjectEntitled 'Occupational Health Challenges and Solutions in the Arctic and subarctic regions', the project research questions are to study the impact of climate and weather on outdoor workers' performance, health, and safety, including mitigative and adaptive strategies. By studying health and performance concerns of working in the mining industry, cold storage industry and outdoor work.
Janina Priebe
PhD, Senior research assistant Umeå University
ProjectProjectEntitled 'Arctic futures through the lens of global sustainability transformation', the project examines how global goals are translated by corporate actors and projected onto the Arctic, and how corporate visions construct the connection between future energy and sustainability in the context of global transformation ambitions. Keywords describing the project include: Arctic futures; futures literacy; sustainability transformation; humanities’ perspectives.
ProjectProject The project seeks to answer the research question of 'How should we (re)think, examine and teach tourism in the era of climate emergency - and in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic?'. The project envisions collaboratively what type of future tourism research and education is needed in the Arctic.
Professor of Architecture Luleå University of Technology
ProjectProjectEntitled 'Smart and Sustainable Arctic Towns: aligning top-down and bottom-up urban sustainability in the Arctic', the project focus is two fold, to study the (top-down) implementation of smart and sustainable urban policies and projects by cities and government agencies (e.g. positive energy districts, etc.); and the (bottom-up), inhabitants-led urban sustainability initiatives from inhabitants and associations (e.g., sharing mobility, etc.).
Miguel San Sebastián
Professor in Public health Umeå University
ProjectProjectEntitled 'Sámi dearvvasvuođa fierpmádat” : establishing a Sámi Health Network (SámiHNet) in Sápmi', the project objectives are to build institutional capacity in Sámi health research and education; enable strategic partnership between Sámi health researchers and institutions; support increased collaboration with Sámi civil society and health care providers; and facilitate links with international actors in the broader network of Indigenous health research and education.
In response to the first call for Arctic Five Chairs, a total of 36 applications were received from candidates coming from all Arctic Five partner universities. Applications from eligible candidates …
An Arctic Five Chair is an already established scholar at an Arctic Five university, with either recent or ongoing research and/or educational collaborations with other Arctic Five partner universities, or …
