On Friday, Polar Aspect had the privilege of addressing youth from around the world attending the ‘E3 Summit’, MUN Impact‘s third global youth summit. Our presentation—delivered by Joshua Gray, an associate of Polar Aspect and member of our Online Model Arctic Council (OMAC) Secretariat—addressed the summit themes of ‘earth, economy, equity’ by focusing on Arctic …
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Polar Aspect Schools Newsletter – September 2021
We’re delighted to be able to add our second conference at Wycombe Abbey School to the list of online and in-person Model Arctic Council (MAC) school conferences we’re planning in 2021-22! WYCOMAC 2 in January joins a line-up including OMAC 2 in December, MAC Bilbao 4 in January and NORMAC 6 in March—plus our second …
Presentation at 10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences
Last week, I spoke at the Tenth International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences as part of a panel discussion on ‘Innovation and Pedagogy in Circumpolar Studies’. My presentation, entitled ‘Model Arctic Council for sustainable development‘, proposed that experiential learning through Model Arctic Council (MAC) — such as the Polar Aspect MACs that I design and run …
Polar Aspect Schools Newsletter – June 2021
We’re planning at least three online and in-person Model Arctic Council (MAC) school conferences in 2021-22—OMAC 2, MAC Bilbao 4 and NORMAC 6—plus our second online OMAC Delegate Training round! If you’re a pupil or teacher, check out our June newsletter and register now for our upcoming Polar Aspect MACs!
Presentation to M|A|S|E|R Cluster
This past Friday, I was very pleased to be able to introduce myself and Polar Aspect to the Materials | Art | Science | Environment | Research (M|A|S|E|R) Cluster at the Bath School of Art (BSoA). Established in December 2020 by Prof Mariele Neudecker, who served as Honorary Chair of my fifth Norwich Model Arctic …
Presentation at 3rd UArctic Congress
Yesterday I took part in a panel session on ‘Innovation and Pedagogy in Circumpolar Studies’ at the Third UArctic Congress. My presentation, entitled ‘Model Arctic Council for sustainable development‘, proposed that experiential learning through Model Arctic Council (MAC) — such as the Polar Aspect MACs that I design and run for schools and universities — …
Polar Aspect Schools Newsletter – May 2021
Read our first-ever newsletter for schools to learn about our next Online Model Arctic Council and more!
Student remarks on Trent-Yukon Model Arctic Council 1
Many thanks to Will Richmond, a fourth-year undergraduate student at Trent University’s School of the Environment, for his stellar feedback on the first Trent-Yukon Model Arctic Council (TRYKOMAC), in which he recently participated as a delegate. In his blog post for Trent University news, Will wrote: As a student interested in the Arctic for the …
3rd Online Mini Model Arctic Council for Trent University
On Tuesday, I ran an online ‘mini’ Model Arctic Council (MAC) for students taking Prof Heather Nicol’s third-year ‘Geography of the Polar Regions’ course at Trent University. Most of the participating students were from Trent, but they also included two students from Finnish universities taking the course through the UArctic Circumpolar Studies programme. The mini-MAC followed a similar …
Lecture at University of Northern British Columbia
On Monday, I had the privilege of delivering a guest lecture to third- and fourth-year undergraduate students at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC). The students were all taking part in the UNBC Geography Department’s course ‘Changing Arctic: Human and Environmental Systems’, convened by Prof Gail Fondahl. My lecture was entitled ‘”Greenshit go home” …