Active Members

Active Members are those currently working on a longterm, field-based, academic project on Svalbard and who are able to dedicate a part of their time to maintaining and furthering our growing network. This includes all academic projects, from the social sciences to the humanities and the arts.

If you have a project that fits this description and would like to join our group, please contact us at info@svalbardsocialscience.com

Adriana Craciun

Aleksis Oreschnikoff 

Beyond knowledge-building – Research infrastructures and Arctic (in)security

Alexandra Meyer

The Societal Impacts of a Changing Environment in Longyearbyen, Svalbard: An Ethnography of Arctic Change

Alexandra Middleton

Alina Bykova

Anastasiya Halauniova

Anatolijs Venovcevs

Andrian Vlakhov

Ann Eileen Lennert

Annette Löf

SVALUR – Understanding Resilience and Long-Term Environmental Change in the High Arctic: Narrative-Based Analyses from Svalbard

Astrid E.J. Ogilvie

Birgitte Nygaard

Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard

Place-making, ownership, and enactments of sovereignty in times of climate change

Cherry Jackson

Dina Abdel-Fattah

ClicNord

Dina Brode-Roger

Research Fellow

Erwin Dubois

Eva Kotašková

From Coal to Tourism: Ethnography of Enacting Environment on Svalbard Archipelago

Eva la Cour

Geo-Aesthetical Discontent: Svalbard, the Guide and Post-Future Essayism

Frigga Kruse

Halvor Dannevig

Helena Gonzales Lindberg

ThawingLYR – Permafrost challenges in Longyearbyen

Jacob Taarup

James Badu

Adapting to climate change responses at the community level: resilience and crisis management in the Arctic (ADAPT)

Jasmin Zhang

Julia Olsen

Jelmer Jeuring

FOCUS/PRISMAS/ArcRCC-N/ Nansen Legacy

Laura Ferguson

Longyearbyen’s Coal Mining Heritage: For Town and For Tourism

Kristin Weis

Lisbeth Iversen

INTAROS: Community-based monitoring/A holistic & proximite approach to sustainable urban – and place led development

Maaike Knol-Kauffman

Delivering policy-relevant knowledge about past and projected change, risk and safety of maritime activities around Svalbard (PRISMAS)

Mathias Albert

1. The Worldviews of Ice: Cognitive Frames and Constructions of the Arctic in the Science/Politics-Interface

2. ‘A Global Svalbard’. The Practices and Law of the High North as Role Model for Governing Areas of Limited Authority in World Politics 

Morgan Alexander Ip

Local spatial and cultural imaginaries of Svalbard’s present and future

Samantha Saville

Svalbard Futures: Value and Adaptation in the Anthropocene

René van der Wal

Siri Veland

Modeling risk from black carbon in a coupled natural-human system at the Arctic ice edge (CNH); Tipping+; Tourism on Svalbard: a balancing act

Tarje Iversen Wanvik

ATLAS – Arctic Transition Laboratories
ACCELERATE – transformation as response to climate risk in cities

Tiril Vold Hansen

Power and interests in Norwegian Svalbard politics: what interests prevail and why?

Trym Eiterjord

Turid Austin Wæhler

Ty Jonathan Holtzman

Ulrich Schildberg

Zdenka Sokolíčková

Understanding Resilience and Long-Term Environmental Change in the High Arctic: Narrative-Based Analyses from Svalbard (SVALUR)