Durham ARCTIC is committed to providing its award-holders with the widest range of opportunities to:
To help achieve these objectives, Durham ARCTIC runs its own Placement Scheme. Our Placement Scheme is responsive and supports our award-holders to design their own placements, which are tailored to their specific research, training and career development needs.
The following principles underpin our placement scheme:
At the end of the placement, award-holders are required to complete and submit a report detailing the skills and experiences that they gained, together with details of the work they conducted and any resulting impact generated from the placement.
Giuseppe Amatulli (Cohort 1) - Department of Anthropology
Placement Host Organisation: Land Department of the Doig River First Nation (Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada)
Ilona Kater (Cohort 1) - Department of Biosciences.
Placement Host Organisation: Department of Ecology, Umeå University, (Umeå, Sweden)
Jan Mikael Lundmark (Cohort 1) - Durham Law School
Placement Host Organisation: Sámiid Riikkasearvi (The National Union of Swedish Sámi) (Umeå, Sweden)
Laura Seddon (Cohort 1) - Department of Geography
Placement Host Organisation: Norwegian Meteorological Institute (Oslo, Norway)
Eric Boyd (Cohort 2) - Department of Anthropology
Placement Host Organisation: School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Romain Chuffart (Cohort 2) - Durham Law School
Placement Host Organisation: Fridtjof Nansen Institute (Oslo, Norway)
Christian Drury (Cohort 2) - Department of History
Placement Host Organisation: National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh, UK)
Greta Ferloni (Cohort 2) - Department of Geography
Placement Host Organisation: International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks (Fairbanks, Alaska, USA)
Katy Ivison (Cohort 2) - Department of Biosciences
Placement Host Organisation: Natural History Museum, NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) (Trondheim, Norway)
David Jarrett (Cohort 2) - Department of Biosciences
Placement Host Organisation: LUOMUS (Finnish Museum of Natural History) (Helsinki, Finland)
Paul Burgum (Cohort 3) - Department of Psychology
Placement Host Organisation: British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge, UK)
Beth Gillie (Cohort 3) - Department of Biosciences
Placement Host Organisation: Marine Institute, Memorial University (St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada)
Danai Kontou (Cohort 3) - Department of Geography
Placement Host Organisation: Nordland Research Institute (Bodø, Norway)
Ellie Ward (Cohort 3) - Department of Biosciences
Placement Host Organisation: Akvaplan-NIVA (Tromsø, Norway)