5 new PhD students will spend the next 3 years immersing themselves in independent research projects that will be carried out at Ilisimatusarfik – University of Greenland, Pinngortitaleriffik – Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, and Arctic DTU – Campus Sisimiut. One of the projects will investigate how climatic conditions affect the number of mosquitoes – another will develop a risk assessment of landslides along the Sisimiut-Kangerlussuaq transect.

The stipends go to:

• Line Groth Nielsen with the project “A Context-Based and Democratically Formative Social Studies Didactic”. The project will be carried out at Ilisimatusarfik – University of Greenland, Institute of Learning. Read more here.
• Mona Madsen with the project “Seniors in Their Own Homes – Resources and Local Communities”. The project will be carried out at Ilisimatusarfik – University of Greenland, Center for Arctic Welfare, Department of Social Work; and Center for Public Health in Greenland, Danish National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark. Read more here.
• Rikke Østergaard with the project “Whiteness, Power Structure, and Self-Determination in Greenland: Contrasting Views of Sovereignty in the Lens of Critical Race Theory”. The project will be carried out at Ilisimatusarfik – University of Greenland, Department of Culture, Language and History. Read more here.
• Steffen Nielsen with the project “Nuna Sisoortoq – Natural Hazards of Mudslides and Permafrost Detachment in Sedimentary Environments”. The project will be carried out at Arctic DTU – Campus Sisimiut; Aarhus University, HydroGeophysics Group; and University of Alaska Fairbanks. Read more here.
• Viktor Gårdman with the project “Understanding the Ecological Role of Biting Flies in Greenland”. The project will be carried out at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Department of Environment and Mineral Resources; and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecology. Read more here.

Read about the granted projects here.