Yesterday, I participated in a panel discussion on ‘Circumpolar Education for Environmental Change and Resilience’, moderated by Maeva Gauthier of the University of Victoria. The discussion was the first step in a project, led by Jeff Birchall of the University of Alberta, to design a locally-centered and student-focused education programme on environmental change and resilience. …
Category: Speaking
Second lecture at Scottish Association for Marine Science
It was a real privilege last year to give a guest lecture about Arctic political geography to students on the ‘Polar Seas’ module at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS). So I was enormously pleased to be asked back this year to teach the new cohort of students taking the module. Though the Arctic …
Presentation at 8th UK Arctic Science Conference
Yesterday, I took part in a session on ‘Innovation in Arctic education and public outreach’ at the 8th UK Arctic Science Conference in Cambridge, organised by the UK Arctic Office and the British Antarctic Survey. In my presentation, I introduced and reported on results from my Scotland Model Arctic Council (SCOTMAC) programme for undergraduate students, including …
Presentation at 3rd Model UN Advisors Conference
It’s been four years, punctuated by one pandemic, since Model UN advisors have been able to meet for a staff training day. MUN advisors are secondary-school teachers who coordinate model diplomacy at their schools, and who mentor their pupils to understand and take part in diplomatic simulations. At its best, model diplomacy like MUN is …
Second Lecture to Royal Geographical Society East of England
The Arctic is governed from capitals far away—including Moscow, which oversees half of the region, and which is now locked in a geopolitical struggle with the Western capitals overseeing the other half. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has upended Arctic diplomacy, and one of the most important and fast-changing parts of our warming globe is fractured …
Keynote at Haarlem Model United Nations
Thank you very much to the Secretariat of the Haarlem Model United Nations (HMUN) at Stedelijk Gymnasium Haarlem in the Netherlands—and in particular to the two HMUN Secretaries General, who were outstanding participants in my MAC Bilbao 5 conference earlier this year—for inviting me to speak at HMUN today. I was very pleased to be …
Keynote at University of Nottingham Model United Nations
Many thanks to the University of Nottingham United Nations Society for inviting me to give a keynote talk at their Nottingham Model United Nations (NOTTSMUN) conference today. I’m proud to say that one of their Secretariat team participated in the second Norwich Model Arctic Council for University last year and, inspired by that experience, selected …
Presentation at 25th Arctic Science Summit Week
This past Tuesday, I took part in a session on ‘Educational innovation and pedagogy for the Anthropocene Arctic’ at the 25th Arctic Science Summit Week in Vienna, Austria, organised by the International Arctic Science Committee, the Austrian Polar Research Institute and the University of Vienna. Together with my colleague Dr Sennan Mattar from the Mary Robinson …
Lecture at Scottish Association for Marine Science
I mentioned in my wrap-up note on the first Scotland Model Arctic Council (SCOTMAC) that faculty at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), where the simulation was held in March 2022, seem to have found the experience just as inspiring as the participating students did. It was amazingly gratifying enough for me that my …
Presentation at 7th UK Arctic Science Conference
Yesterday, I took part in a session on ‘Innovation in Arctic education and public outreach’ at the Seventh UK Arctic Science Conference, organised by the UK Arctic Office, the Durham Arctic Research Centre and Durham University. I reported on the launch of the Scotland Model Arctic Council (SCOTMAC) for undergraduate students, which took place a …