Master’s students at the University Centre of the Westfjords may choose to conduct their thesis research wherever they like in the world. This goes for both the new Coastal Communities and Regional De...
Master’s students at the University Centre of the Westfjords are finishing up their coursework and heading into their thesis research time period. Every year, students have the opportunity to design t...
We often forget to ask ourselves, “Where is the food that ends up on my plate coming from?” However, with increased awareness of the impacts that the transport and production of food on an industrial ...
This is Ellyn Davidson, an aspiring marine ecologist from Canada who is passionate about the Arctic. She graduated in 2016 from the Coastal and Marine Management Program at UW with a Master of Resourc...
The natural environment surrounding UW provides students with a plethora of research opportunities, all they have to do to make it happen is to have vision and determination. Take for example Justin B...
Each year UW offers two courses centered on the attendance of Arctic Circle Assembly, the largest Arctic gathering of its kind. In these two Coastal and Marine Management courses, “Arctic Ocean Govern...
Even though the University Center of the Westfjords (UW) is still a relatively young institution, some of its activities have already put down long roots. For the first time now, alumni from the Schoo...
Dr. Brad Barr, longtime UW Visiting Faculty at the Coastal and Marine Management master’s program, is back in Ísafjörður conducting research into the preservation of whaling heritage sites in Iceland....
Field trips to some of the more remote areas of the Westfjords are an annual event in the fall for the new Coastal and Marine Management students who come each year to the University Centre of the Wes...
It has been eleven years since the University Centre of the Westfjords started offering the Icelandic courses that have now become a firm fixture in the University Centre’s operations, and in the West...
This summer marks ten years since the University Centre of the Westfjords and SIT Study Abroad, in the USA, started working together on their Westfjords field school program. The program is tailored t...
The University Centre of the Westfjords is more often than not a buzzing site for people from various corners of the world. Not only are the students of the coastal and marine management program of ma...