Coming in 2013:
Health, Society and Environment in Relation to Large-Scale Industrial Projects PhD Summer School, Nuuk, Greenland 5th-9th September 2013. This PhD Summer School will be held in association with the NUNA MED 2013 conference in Nuuk.
More information at the Centre of Arctic Health website.
2012 courses:
SECURITY IN A CHANGING WORLD
The PhD training course "Security in a changing world" was held in the conjunction of Kastelli Symposium in November 12 -16, 2012 at the University of Oulu, Finland. Course covered the different levels of securities with focus on traditional and non-traditional security perspectives and human/individual, environmental and energy security.
Course content:
Topic 1. Security perspectives in the Arctic, Dr. Gunhild Hoogensen, Norway, Prof. Lassi Heininen, Finland
Security in the Arctic: A human perpective, Dr. Kamrul Hossain, Finland
Topic 2. Human security, Prof. Arja Rautio, Prof. Vappu Sunnari, Finland
Topic 3. Information security, Eeva Leinonen, Finland.
SNOWTALKS
Snowtalks PhD training course was held in March 19-23, 2012 at Abisko Scientific Research Station, Sweden. The course titled "Snowtalks" and concluded the climate change effects on people and environment in the North where snow is a very important factor. See news on the course.
The course was funded by Nordforsk Top-level Research Initiative “Effect studies and adaptation to climate change” as the fourth course organized by the Nordic Network “People and Ecosystems in a changing world”.
Schedule for the week can be found here.
First circular can be found here.
Course teachers can be foundhere.
2011 courses
The second PhD training course was held in 22. – 26. March 2011 at Sámi University College, Diehtosiida, Kautokeino, Norway.
A course provided on master and PhD level by Nordic Network People and ecosystems in a changing environment on different aspects of using traditional knowledge in the rapid changing Arctic societies including the seminars, Sami Parliaments Seminar on Traditional Knowledge, Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and Academic Knowledge Building - What Indigenous Communities Wishes and What Academia Can Offer and Prince Albert II Seminar: Ethics of Knowledge Development in cooperation with TN Global Change, Sámediggi Sametinget, Sámi University College, International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry, Association on World Reindeer Herders, UArctic EALÀT Institute. The program can be found here.
Summer Institute in Circumpolar Health Research: Contaminants and Human Health and Risk Communication courses were held in Oulu in June 2011.
The courses increased the awareness of PhD students on health effects of current contaminants that are emerging as a consequence of climate change and globalization, and the ways of risk communication related to prevention of these adverse health effects in the general public.
The next " will be held in the conjunction of in at the University of Oulu, Finland. Course will cover the different levels of securities with focus on traditional and non-traditional security perspectives and human/individual, environmental and energy security. The participation for the course will give PhD students certificates (2,5 ECTS) for gaining credits in their home organizations. Nordic PhD students are entitled for free participation including the travel grant, free admission and free accommodation when submitting the . The course is also open for Non Nordic students without the travel and accommodation support. Course includes student presentations and assignments, list of pre reading will be distributed in advance to the selected students. Course content: Topic 1. Security perspectives in the Arctic, Security in the Arctic: A human perpective,Topic 2. Human security, Topic 3. Information security, .You can find the . .PhD Summer School " Nuuk, Greenland, 5 - 9 Septemner, 2013. This will be the final PhD course funded with the Nordic Top Level Research Initiative Network. As before the the Nordic PhD students will be granted free travel and accommodation, more information will be given later. More information about the course can be found from .Snowtalks PhD training course was held in March 19-23, 2012 at Abisko Scientific Research Station, Sweden. The course titled "Snowtalks" and concluded the climate change effects on people and environment in the North where snow is a very important factor. See on the course. The course was funded by Nordforsk Top-level Research Initiative “Effect studies and adaptation to climate change” as the fourth course organized by the Nordic Network “People and Ecosystems in a changing world”. Schedule for the week can be found . First circular can be found .Course teachers can be foundThe second PhD training course was held in 22. – 26. March 2011 at Sámi University College, Diehtosiida, Kautokeino, Norway. A course provided on master and PhD level by on different aspects of using traditional knowledge in the rapid changing Arctic societies including the seminars, Sami Parliaments Seminar on Traditional Knowledge, Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and Academic Knowledge Building - What Indigenous Communities Wishes and What Academia Can Offer and Prince Albert II Seminar: Ethics of Knowledge Development in cooperation with TN Global Change, Sámediggi Sametinget, Sámi University College, International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry, Association on World Reindeer Herders, UArctic EALÀT Institute. can be found courses were held in Oulu in June 2011. The courses increased the awareness of PhD students on health effects of current contaminants that are emerging as a consequence of climate change and globalization, and the ways of risk communication related to prevention of these adverse health effects in the general public.
The courses presented some of the preliminary results gained at ArcRisk project. Courses focus on deeper aspects of human health e.g. effects of mining, which was one of the cases in previous PhD training course held in November when socio-economic aspects were studied. In that sense summer courses offered an excellent change for student to learn deeper aspects of human health and how various contaminants and changes in peoples’ everyday life affect human health and well-being.
2010 course
The first PhD training course "People in changing wolrd" was held at the University of Oulu, Finland in November 15-17, 2010. The course covered the long-term historical research and forecasting of the future of human-environment relationships with respect to health, economic- and socio-cultural wellbeing, societal resilience, adaptation and transformability, vulnerability in different scales, and also human communication. Case studies on environmental and economic changes and their socio-cultural effects help students to understand how people will affect communities and cultures, their self-image and ultimately their health.
The international 7th Kastelli Symposium was held right after the course where students had a change to give as well a presentation. These presentations took part into the "Best Oral Presentation" and "Best Poster" competition. The winners of these prize are Mirjam Hirch (University of Cologne, Germany) for the Best Oral Presentaiton and Antonio Cálo and Ioannis Chamilos for the Best Posters. Winners were awarded with 500 euro prizes.
Student presentations at the first PhD training course
Oral presentations at the course:
• Measurement challenges in studies of Sámi ethnicity and living conditions in Norway – the question of study population, Torunn Petterson (University of Tromsø, Norway)
• The impact of colonization on the health of Sami in Finland and First Nations in Ontario, Canada: A compartive case study, Sandra Juutilainen (University of Oulu, Finland)
• Health impacts of climate change in the Circumpolar area, William Hrynkov (University of Oulu, Finland)
• Effectiveness of Community Consultation Information: A Case Study of the Giant Mine Remediation Plan, Laura Banfield (University of Oulu, Finland)
•The Inuit Experience of Technology, Lisa-Jo van Der Scott (Northwestern University, USA)
• Spatial variation in health and well-being – a Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 study, Tiina Lankila (University of Oulu, Finland)
• The closing of schools and its associations on student´s schooling paths, experiences of bullying, self-experienced health and social exclusion in Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986,Anna Rönkä (University of Oulu, Finland)
• Conceptualising interdependence and relationality with other in initial teacher education, Judy Bruce (University of Canterbury, NZ & University of Oulu, Finland)
• Population Ageing in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region: health aspects and social policy response, Anastasia Emelyonova (University of Oulu, Finland)
• Sami Health care (tentative), Aune Niittyvuopio (University of Lapland, Finland)
• Nutritional composition of reindeer, persistent organic pollutants in reindeer and predictors of high reindeer meat consumers in the Sami areas of Norway, Ammar Ali Hassan (University of Tromsø, Norway)
• Exposure assessment, e.g. estimation of individual exposure to air pollutants, Aileen Yang (NILU, Norway)
• Interconnecting Southern and Northern Approach towards Indigenous Peoples within Development: Arctic States Developing Their Northern Regions and Acting as Donors in Developing Countries, Adam Stepien (University of Lapland, Finland)
Posters
• Chronical alcoholic intoxication and alcohol-associated somatic pathology on European North, Yana Kudrina (University of Oulu, Finland)
• The analysis of a situation of domestic violence in the European North, Anna Studentcova (University of Oulu, Finland)
• Self-determination in indigenous peoples' mental health, Mirjam Hirch (University of Cologne, Germany)
• Effect of heat stress and short-term heat acclimation on heart rate variability, orthostatic intolerance and physicological responses during and after submaximal exercise in cold acclimatizated athletes, Osman Ates (Istanbul University, Turkey)
• ABC transporters and heavy metals in BeWo human choriocarcinoma cells, Maria Kummu (University of Oulu, Finland)
• Energy economics and wellbeing, Antonio Cálo & Ioannis Chamilos (University of Oulu, Finland)
The courses are funded by Norforsk Top-level Research Initiative “Effect studies and adaptation to climate change” as the first course organized by the Nordic Network “People and Ecosystems in a changing world”.
More information: Kirsi Latola, kirsi.latola (at) uarctic.org
