News from the Department of Geography

Dorothee Bohn and Doris Carson will host at the 9th Nordic Geographers Meeting in Finland in February

The editors of the new Handbook of Tourism and Migration are calling out to researchers for contributions.

Zoltan Elekes has been awarded the 2019 "Excellent Young Regional Scientist Award".

The first Tourism and Climate Change Stocktake report has been released by the TPCC.

Human Geographer Cenk Demiroglu has developed a visual "geobibliography" over spatial research.

Arctic Centre Funding – Read about Pamela Bachmann-Vargas and her fieldwork in Abisko.

Hanna Lempinen held two seminars on peat energy during her visit as a Guest Researcher at UmU.

Alumna student Kim Dohee from our Master Tourism programme.

The European Commission has granted 6.8 Million Euro to the project SHARE-Covid-19.

New research will focus on the major investments planned in Skellefteå, Boden and Malmfälten.

"The Arctic" is often portrayed as polar bears and white wastelands. New research diversifies this image.

A new thesis critically examines "Arctification" and its ambiguous role in regional development.

Sania Dzalbe is awarded for her thesis "Spatial visibility of Greenlanders in Aalborg Denmark".

Read about Skogsungdomarna – a meeting place for young people interested in forests in Västerbotten.

Having social ties to highly educated colleagues increases the chances of getting a better paid position.

Incidents with fatal police violence in the US are 66% more likely to occur in formerly “redlined” areas.

The Arctic Graduate School is up and running after a kick-off day at the start of the Autumn semester.

A new project will explore the dynamics of workforce integration in Sweden's Arctic tourism sector.

The Graduate School of Gender Studies is recruiting five PhD students.

Liv Andersen winner of Outdoors thesis award about Tourism and Human geography.

Tourism has been hit hard by Covid-19. But it will come back. Perhaps already this summer in Västerbotten.

Rikard Eriksson, one of the speakers at Kunskapsnoden 2023, studies regional development.

The impact of the ongoing Northern Regions arctification in the tourism sector