Max Whelan, a 2024 graduate from the BSc Geography programme, has been awarded the first-place prize in the annual DurhamARCTIC Arctic Dissertation Award competition for his dissertation ‘Glacial Change on Bylot Island: An Investigation into Glacier Terminus Migration and the Controls Thereon (1985-2020)’. Other awardees were Francesca Milton-Jones and Lily Thompson.

DurhamARCTIC awards honorary degree to Iñupiaq scholar and legal advocate Dalee Sambo Dorough

The Arctic Council at 25: Regional Governance in Changing Times – An Online Symposium, September 2021

Durham ARCTIC PhD student Giuseppe Amatulli has written a piece for The Conversation following a landmark ruling by the British Columbia Supreme Court, who found that the Blueberry River First Nation's treaty rights were infringed by the B.C government, allowing decades of industrial development on their lands.

Although pandemic restrictions postponed the triennial International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS), originally scheduled to be held June 2020 in Archangelsk, Russia, DurhamARCTIC has gone ahead with plans to ‘attend’ the meeting remotely.

Polar Research, Visual Culture, and Public Audiences in Early Career Research

Starting January 2023, Dr Giuseppe Amatulli will commence his new position as a post-doctoral fellow in the Rebuilding First Nations Governance (RFNG) project.