May 29 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Join organizers Maeva Gauthier and Jeff Birchall, Director, Climate Adaptation and Resilience Lab, University of Alberta and Lead, UArctic Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience for a special panel session and workshop. This event will take place on May 29 at 3:00 p.m. in Bodø, Norway.
The overall goal of the panel and workshop is to establish new relationships and strengthen existing ones to develop collaboratively a locally-centered and student-focused education program to co-create a circumpolar education program on environmental change and resilience.
Other panelists and participants in the workshop involved are other UArctic collaborators are:
- Diane Hirshberg, Director & Professor of Education Policy, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage, Member, UArctic Thematic Network on Teacher Education & UNITWIN/UNESCO Network on Teacher Education
- Helene Svendsen, Lead of the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Plastic Pollution and Project Manager, GRID-Arendal, Norway (link) and Anna Sinisalo, Principal Expert, GRID-Arendal.
- Anthony Speca FRGS FRSA, Adjunct Professor, School for the Study of Canada, Trent University, Canada. Managing Director, Læra Institute for Circumpolar Education, University of the Arctic. trentu.ca/canadianstudies and laerainstitute.org
- David Russell-Loewen, Director of Education, Live It Earth. Co-created an education program with Jeff Birchall’s team to highlight his lab’s work and engage with Maeva Gauthier’s PhD research in Tuktoyaktuk. (Role at the workshop: share a demo, showcase educational content, and screen the pilot project of the Arctic communities education program developed with Birchall’s thematic network).
For more information, contact Maeva Gauthier at maeva@liveit.earth
