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Sometimes you need to travel in the opposite direction to get to your destination. Having grown up in the UK, opportunity always seemed to lay to the south, if only because the climate was bound tobe...

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Last week was pretty packed for the students of the Coastal Communities and Regional Development program (CRD) and me. And the week was somewhat CRD in a nutshell. It all started with two guest lectur...

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Where is the ‘youth is the future’ from 15 years ago? This was a question I was left with after the European Rural Parliament (ERP) that was hosted last weekin Kielce, Poland. I was lucky enough to a...

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Dear graduating students, dear guests Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.                                       1 Thessalonians 5:21 You have gone through a cross-disciplinary study prog...

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For a very long time, longer than I care to remember, I’ve been interested in the adaptation of derelict buildings as cultural and arts spaces - in particular the creative re-use of industrial structu...

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I am from France, where I studied telecommunications engineering. I didn’t really want to pursue engineering for a living, but I finished my Master’s and I was ready to accept that that would be my ca...

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I was a student in the Coastal and Marine Management programme in 2011–2013. Not only did I have a great time, but the programme also helped launch my career in environmental law and provided lasting ...

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Coastal culture and heritage were the central focus of the course "Maritime Anthropology" that I taught the last week before winter break. The class is an elective for the Coastal Communities and Regi...

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The wind was howling as it blew snow across the road on Steingrímsfjarðarheiði on our drive to Ísafjörður in late October. Although it was not an unfamiliar sight for me, it was an undeniable sign to ...

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In explaining what I do now, after my studies in Ísafjörður, I should note that my path has long been more squiggly than straight. My interests overlapped with more than one discipline and it took a w...

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On Wednesday the 14th of October, students enrolled in the course Arctic Ocean Governance, with Brad Barr, and some second-year students loaded up into a 4x4 van and set off down to drive the 7 hours ...