Participatory research tools: Q-methodology to study perspectives

As used in ArcticHubs, Q-method is being conducted as part of the in-depth analysis of local people’s perception of the existing and new economic activities in the Arctic. It is being used in particular to assess local stakeholders, policy makers and citizens’ perceptions, in order to identify and cluster like-minded people into so-called opinion types. This makes viewpoints across different parts of the Arctic region and industries comparable. Hereafter a …

Interview with Roy Robertsen, NOFIMA senior researcher at Varangerfjord Hub

Dr. Roy Robertsen is a senior scientist for one of the ArcticHubs’ partner organisations, NOFIMA; he is specialised in seafood and aquaculture research, fish farming research and development, and environment sustainability. Within the project, he is researching the trends and industrial development of fish farms around the hub of Varangerfjord (Norway), its environmental sustainability and the ripple effects of new sea-related industries on fish, sea, costs and people. In this …

Varangerfjord: co-creating in a complex hub. Seminar event May 2022

Perched at the far northern tip of mainland Europe as the easternmost fjord in Norway, the Varangerfjord region is no stranger to thinking about adaptations and remaining resilient to complex and shifting circumstances. It was a natural choice for the region to become one of the focal points for the ArcticHubs research team from project partner, NOFIMA, as they are able to draw upon extensive experiences of working with and …

Interview with Sara Moioli, young researcher at ArcticHubs

We are very grateful to have young researchers and students, such as Sara Moioli, working around the ArcticHubs project. Sara is currently conducting her internship with ArcticHubs as part of the post graduate course TALETE Honour Program of the University of Trento (Italy). The course focuses on the topics of environment and sustainability and the ArcticHubs project is the case study that Sara is using. In this blog she tells …

Interview with Dr. Leena Suopajärvi, senior scientist and WP1 leader at ArcticHubs

Interview with Dr. Leena Suopajärvi, senior scientist at the University of Lapland and work package 1 leader at ArcticHubs. Dr. Leena Suopajärvi is the lead scientist for one of the main research action of the ArcticHubs project and that is the study of global trends and industrial development impacting upon land, livelihoods, communities and stakeholders of the Arctic region. We discuss with Dr.Suopajärvi how she became involved in the investigation …

The community around the project – ArcticHubs finally face-to-face

Lining up with LUKE on the Arctic circle The start of the ArcticHubs project coincided with pandemic lockdown, which meant that face to face meetings were impossible during the project’s first year. Now the coordination team at LUKE in Rovaniemi, Finland, has just finished hosting a fast-moving but highly productive few days where, for the first time since the launch, the project teams have converged as one. For three days …

Registration open: Global drivers and the future of key industries in the European Arctic – webinar on 30 Nov

Globalization is not a singular driving force. Instead, it consists of different kinds of international processes and challenges that may defy a strictly local solution due to their complexity. Climate change is just one example. The Arctic of the 2020s cannot be understood without placing it in the context of global interlinkages and processes that shape its futures and fortunes. Knowledge about global drivers and their local impacts is needed …

WP4 deliverable: testing the Unmanned Forestry Machine for land-use planning of the Arctic

    ArcticHubs researchers are drawing upon a range of innovative tools to find solutions to forest land-use conflict in the Arctic region: the Unmanned Forestry Machine (UFM), developed by some of the ArcticHubs partners, Luleå University of Technology in collaboration with Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, is being tested as one of this in WP4 of the project activities. Why is there a need of the UFM? And what …