Research into climate-change effects on terrestrial ecosystems is a truly multidisciplinary research field, involving predictive modelling, correlative ecological approaches such as gradient studies and biogeography and palaeoecology, and field and laboratory experiments. Each of these research approaches is already making important contributions to our understanding of climate-change effects, but they have different strengths and weaknesses, and important steps forward can be made by closer multidisciplinary collaboration.
In this training course, Nordic research groups leading within one or more of the relevant fields offer a multidisciplinary research course aiming to stimulate participating students to take a broader view on climate-change effects research. This will be achieved through a series of seminars given by internationally leading experts in the different fields, group discussions exploring how multi- and inter-disciplinarity can contribute to address important themes in climate-change research, a field trip to the ITEX site at Finse, and practical training in statistical analyses using the R language.
The school is a unique opportunity to explore this important issue with like-minded post-graduate students and young scientists, mostly from the Nordic countries.
See summer school web page for more information.
]]>Mary Daly - Professor, Queen’s University, Belfast, the UK: "The Welfare State in Society: Re-assessing the Social Challenges to the Nordic Model"?
Ann Orloff - Professor, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA: "Toward a Gender-Open Future? Equality and Diversity in Feminist Social Politics and Policy"
Sven Steinmo - Professor, European University Institute in Florence, Italy: "The greediest of generations"
With priority to papers with at least one of the Nordic countries as frame of reference, REASSESS invites paper proposals related to one or several of these topics:
Deadline for paper proposals: 16 March 2012
Deadline for submission of full paper: 1 August 2012
The conference is free of charge. Register here
Deadline for registration to the conference: 1 May 2012.
Paper proposals and full papers should be sent to Mi Ah Schøyen or reassess@reassess.no.
The rise of environmental studies across different disciplines in the natural and social sciences, and more recently the humanities, is an acknowledgment that nature, as material and biological force, plays a larger and more fundamental role in human history and society than often previously acknowledged.
By addressing the dimensions of spatiality in human experience, environmental studies has the potential to go beyond the emphasis on externalities often signaled by the term “environment”, to arrive at new insights regarding how the environment helps us to reconceive or reinterpret what it means to be human.
At the same time, and despite what we might see as a deepening academic discourse in environmental studies, environmentalism both as a socio-cultural movement and as a set of policy options seems to have lost its forward momentum in the past 20-30 years. Schellenberger and Nordhaus’s provocative study “The Death of Environmentalism” (2005) calls into question both the scope and strategic merit of contemporary environmental discourse. As any problem of knowledge is also a problem of audience, there remains the question of how environmentalism might better construct, address, or include various publics, and to what extent, if at all, environmental studies in the academy can help facilitate that process.
Read more about the research symposium here!
Deadline for paper proposals: Send abstract (no more than 150-200 words) and very brief CV(one-page) to Mark Luccarelli by 1 May 2012.
Keynote Speakers:
Lawrence Buell, Harvard University
David Nye, Odense University
Edward Soja, UCLA
The aim of the course is to refine the level of knowledge of the participating Ph.D. students on the economic and political structures and mechanisms affecting technology development in the ICT area. It also considers the impact of implementation and application of ICTs on the economy and broader social developments.
It is a course in the political economy of technology development with a disciplinary point of departure in economics and social science. This theme is explored at a company (micro), sectoral (meso) and/or societal (macro) level. The level(s) in focus will depend on the specific topics chosen in the course. The course targets Ph.D. students with a technology background combined with an economics and/or social science approach and students with an economics and /or social science background focusing on technology development.
5 ECTS
15 May 2012
The organisers originally developed the course by NordForsk funding and now run it each year, 2012 being the 7th year.
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Tuesday (Patrick Schloss)
Wednesday (Patrick Schloss)
Thursday (Patrick Schloss)
Friday (Stefan Bertilsson, Lars Paulin and Marja Tiirola)
Assistant professor Patrick Schloss/University of Michigan; Professor Stefan Bertilsson/Uppsala
University; Laboratory engineer Lars Paulin/University of Helsinki; Application specialist Ari-Matti Saren/IT
Center for Science (CSC); Academy research fellow Marja Tiirola/University of Jyväskylä.
No course fee for Nordic participants (host institute located in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark or Iceland). NordForsk support covers accommodation between 10.6.-16.6.2012, lunch tickets and coffees, but travels are NOT covered. Participants are presenting their own projects by presentations (10 min) or posters during the course.
Please contact mtiirola@jyu.fi for further information.
Please register by e-mail to mtiirola@jyu.fi before March 15th 2012. Include information of your affiliation, short CV and brief description of your research topic (all in 1 page), and mark the e-mail subject as “Mothur course application”. Participants (max 24) will be selected by allocating places equally to Nordic countries and work groups, and if needed then finally selecting based on the applications. The course is primarily aimed for PhD students, Post docs and senior scientist, but undergraduate students are accepted if there are free places left.
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Health and welfare is high on the political agenda. The Nordic countries have common policy challenges, and at the same time documented research strengths in several areas related to health and welfare. This is documented in several Nordic reports recently published by the Nordic research councils and NordForsk that specifically identifies the added value of Nordic collaboration.
The purpose of the kick-off is to discuss Nordic strengths within research on health and welfare and how these could be further developed into a thematic programme. As a starting point health and welfare are broadly defined.
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Participation by invitation.
]]>The Conference seeks to identify common ground between adaptation research and adaptation decision-making by comparing experiences, reporting new insights and revealing key gaps in knowledge. Some of the other questions being asked include:
The Conference is open to scholars and practitioners interested in climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation. Invitations are extended to researchers across a range of disciplines, public and private decision-makers, regional and local planners, professionals with a background in risk management as well as representatives of NGOs and international organisations. There will be an emphasis in some sessions on adaptation in a Nordic setting, but participation and experiences from outside the region are also strongly encouraged.
Abstracts may be submitted for oral presentations in the parallel sessions, as well as for posters. Abstracts will be evaluated by a scientific committee comprising Nordic and external experts.
Deadline for submitting abstracts is March 9 2012.
ICRI 2012 is co-organised by the Danish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education and the European Commission. This will be the seventh major Conference on Research Infrastructures, and for the first time the Conference will address an international audience.
Participation in the ICRI 2012 Conference is by invitation only and only those accredited by the organisers are able to register.
]]>PhD students from different disciplinary backgrounds both within and outside the Nordic countries are welcome to participate in the course, discussing the development of welfare states, their preconditions, present status and how we ought to study them. PhD students present their papers in parallel sessions and get feedback from senior scholars and junior colleagues. Poster sessions are included.
Paper proposals by PhD students are welcome. The approved proposals will be selected on the basis of their quality. Papers can be written from a broad historical or contemporary perspective and come from different disciplines such as history, social policy, sociology, political science, and political philosophy. Guidelines for papers and posters will be sent in connection with the letters of approval.
6 ECTS
The course fee is 150 euros. Accommodation is financed by the organising centres. A limited number of travel grants will be available.
Interested applicants are asked to submit an abstract (max 400 words) for a paper and a short biography including a list of publications by e-mail no later than 29 February 2012 to coordinator Heidi Haggrén. For updates, please check http://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/.
The scientific section of Arctic Frontiers 2012 will commence with a Wednesday morning session of overview presentations on the potential of existing and new possible resources of energy in the North, followed by a plenary discussion. On the afternoon of Wednesday 25th, Thursday 26th and Friday 27th four parallel sessions, focusing on non-renewable and renewable / alternative energy, are planned. A poster session with approx. 100 posters is also planned.
]]>Students and researchers from a multitude of different science branches will come together at this multidisciplinary event, organised by the Nordic Astrobiology Network together with the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
31 January 2012
Graduate students and early career scientists (up to 5 years after their first Ph. D. in a related field) in fields related to astrobiology. Undergraduate students can also apply, and can be accepted under exceptional circumstances. The event is open to applicants from all nationalities.
Detailed information about the summer school and the application procedure can be found here. Accepted applicants will receive free lodging, meals and excursions, but will have to organise financial means for their travel to and from Iceland themselves. Course credit awards (ECTS points) for undergraduate and Ph. D. students will be applied for by the course organisers.
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