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  • Workshop on human rights research at the Arctic Centre

    9.4.2013 16:11


    This week, the Arctic Centre is welcoming 20 international guests and 6 keynote speakers for a PhD workshop on the notion of group in human rights research. The workshop is held April 10–12, and it includes a series of public lectures, too.

  • Article by Uusiautti and Määttä voted among the three best in an international conference

    9.4.2013 0:00


    A conference article by specialist Satu Uusiautti and professor Kaarina Määttä was voted among the three best papers in an education and social sciences conference called "Education Culture and Society – Nowadays Challenges" by the representants of the scientific committee and organisers.

  • The Norwegian Parliament's delegation visits the Arctic Centre

    5.4.2013 15:00


    The arctic delegation of the Norwegian Parliament Stortinget will visit Rovaniemi and Helsinki from April 8 to April 10. In Rovaniemi, the delegation gets to know the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland, as well as to discuss with the mayor Esko Lotvonen about issues related to Barents region economic cooperation.

  • Funding for research on land use questions in Lapland related to the ILO Convention

    5.4.2013 9:30


    Finnish Agricultural Development Fund (Makera) has granted a EUR 130 000 for postdoctoral researcher Tanja Joona from the Arctic Centre’s Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (NIEM).

  • Call for papers: The first issue of the Barents Studies Journal

    4.4.2013 17:08


    “Barents Studies: Peoples, Economies and Politics” is an international, multidisciplinary academic journal for delivering and discussing original and current research results concerning the peoples, economies and politics in the Barents Euro-Arctic region. The first issue will be published in autumn 2013 and the first call for papers is open until May 15.

  • Call for applications: Funding for the preparation of strategic research projects at ULapland

    4.4.2013 16:51


    The University of Lapland is strengthening its strategic activities. Therefore, a sum of 50,000 euros has been allocated for the preparation work of research projects in the strategic profile areas of ULapland. In practice, these projects encompass projects funded by TEKES – the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, the Academy of Finland, or the European Union.

  • Call for applications: Funding for promoting a closer connection between young researchers and the strategic focus areas at ULapland

    4.4.2013 16:50


    University of Lapland has allocated 50,000 euros for promoting a closer connection between young researchers – doctoral students and post doc researchers – and the strategic focus areas at ULapland.

  • Conference on Saami research in Inari in September

    4.4.2013 16:42


    International conference “Oovtâst – Together. New concepts, theories and methodologies on Saami studies” will be held in Inari, Finland, on September 25–27.

  • Design students to the Milan Design Week

    2.4.2013 16:00


    Northern design will have its own exhibition “Kiela – Design from Lapland” in the Milan Design Week, which gathers every year more than 100,000 visitors. Design from Lapland will feature in one of the event’s main venues, in the Tortona district. The Kiela exhibition includes also works by eleven design students from the University of Lapland.

  • Dissertation: Traditional family roles complicate social work in Lithuania

    2.4.2013 10:08


    Development of child’s social and cognitive skills belonged to the institutions outside the family in Lithuania in its post-totalitarian society. Because of that, the social work in Lithuania has been developing for just 20 years. According to dissertation of Julija Eidukevičiūtė, social workers are still struggling for the ownership of these developments, pushing parents, and especially mothers, aside.

  • Climate change and lessons learnt discussed in the Arktis seminar

    25.3.2013 14:10


    The annual research seminar of the Arctic Doctoral Programme focuses on past climatic changes and their impacts in the Arctic and what we can learn from them for the future. The seminar is held at the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi on April 4–5.

  • Conference on best environmental practices in the mining sector in the Barents region

    25.3.2013 13:29


    The conference on best environmental practices in the mining sector in the Barents region will be held in Rovaniemi on 23–25 April, 2013.

  • Labour Mobility in the European North seminar 11.–12.4.

    25.3.2013 10:50


    Labour mobility seminar will be hold at University of Lapland 11th and 12th of April. Themes of the seminar are for example foreign berry pickers in Finnish and Swedish Lapland, mobility of highly educated employees and trade union responses to transnational labour mobility.

  • Lassi Heininen appointed as Professor of Arctic Politics at the University of Lapland

    22.3.2013 11:55


    PhD, Docent Lassi Heininen has been appointed as Professor of Arctic Politics as of 1 March 2013. He was invited to fill the position, which is in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Lapland. Responsibilities in this position encompass conducting research, teaching, serving as a supervisor for doctoral students, and carrying out international co-operation focusing on Politics, Geopolitics, Security and Security Politics in the Arctic.

  • Arctic anthropology workshop on indigenous ecological knowledge

    21.3.2013 14:58


    The Anthropology Research Team at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland organizes a workshop on indigenous ecological knowledge on Saturday 6 April 2013 at 12:00 in Arktikum, Rovaniemi.

  • The Academy of Finland’s April 2013 call for applications

    20.3.2013 10:09


    The Academy of Finland’s April 2013 call is now available online. The April 2013 call includes funding for new research programme and research infrastructures. Applications can be drafted and submitted in the online services as of Tuesday 2 April. The deadline is Wednesday 24 April. The deadlines for the international calls vary from 11 March to 24 May 2013.

  • The cashier operations of the University are taken to the library

    19.3.2013 8:45


    The cashier services of the University of Lapland are taken to the library as of 20 March.

  • Decline of vegetation seasonality is increasing greening in the Arctic

    11.3.2013 9:12


    A new NASA-funded study "Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands" published in Nature Climate Change reports that decreasing temperature difference between the seasons in the North is increasing plant growth and blurring the distinction between the normally more-seasonal North and abutting less-seasonal South. Research Professor Bruce Forbes from the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland was one member of the international team of researchers participating in the study.

  • ULapland hosts the annual convention of the Finnish Political Science Association

    5.3.2013 16:43


    The annual convention of the Finnish Political Science Association will be held at the University of Lapland on March 7–8. The convention gathers together approximately one hundred academics and students to discuss the ruptures and reveries in the field of political science.

  • Works of ULapland design students will be displayed in Reykjavík

    4.3.2013 16:44


    DesignMarch Reykjavík, Iceland’s most important annual design event, hosts an exhibition Suopunki – Design from Lapland in March 14–17. Designs of twelve ULapland students will be displayed as part of the exhibition.

  • Rector's grants for finalizing dissertations

    1.3.2013 10:35


    Those conducting their doctoral research at the University of Lapland can apply for Rector's grants. The grants are intended to cover the costs of the finalization process and translation and proofreading services.

  • National student feedback survey for universities

    28.2.2013 13:55


    Finnish universities have decided to acquire a nationwide student feedback survey. The first national survey will be implemented at universities in spring 2013.

  • Italian-Finnish Arctic seminar

    26.2.2013 13:00


    Italian and Finnish Arctic experts, researchers and business representatives meet together in Rovaniemi on Tuesday, March 12, in a seminar “Italian-Finnish Cooperation in the Arctic Region: A Great Opportunity”.

  • University Study Counselor supports students` wellness

    20.2.2013 10:56


    University Study Counselor works with University students to promote wellness, success and resilience by reinforcing learning, problem solving and time-management skills.

  • Dissertation: Being a prostitute in younger ages will prejudice relationships

    19.2.2013 9:33


    Women, who have prostitution experiences in childhood and adolescence suffer the fear of being repeatedly rejected, which block them from opening up to another person. Still, the only thing that will help them to regain their lost power is entering into healing relationships with significant Other.

  • Dissertation: Sustainable marketing requires multi-stakeholder engagement

    19.2.2013 8:55


    By being firm-centric, customer-oriented and excessively reliant on managerial and technological expertise, sustainable marketing neglects the relevance of multiple stakeholder perspectives and other forms of knowing in promoting sustainability. Knowledge and practices beyond those implied by marketing and science are essential to help managers understand and critically assess what they do and what implications these actions might have for them, the environment and society.

  • Beyond the individual: the notion of group in human rights research

    14.2.2013 15:52


    The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law at the Arctic Centre will host a workshop to address the notion of collective rights in Human Rights Research. The workshop will take place in Rovaniemi from April 10 to April 12.

  • Morning coffee break with the Rector on February 20

    14.2.2013 15:39


    Rector Mauri Ylä-Kotola invites University staff and students for the morning coffee break to the Café Lovisa on Wednesday, February 20, at 8:30 am.

  • Changes in MTI Library services

    14.2.2013 13:22


    MTI Library (Multidimensional Tourism Institute) will be closed from 16.2. until further notice because of survey of internal air conditions. The printed material will be moved temporarily to two other library units of LUC Library: University Library and Jokiväylä Library.

  • ULapland student as a finalist in clothing design contest

    12.2.2013 12:36


    Maria Kataja, student of clothing design at the University of Lapland, was one of three finalists in the Reclaim Project Design Contest organized by 686 outerwear and ISPO.

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