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 …
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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 …
4th Online Mini Model Arctic Council for Trent University
This past Monday, I ran a fourth online ‘mini’ Model Arctic Council (MAC) for students at Trent University, as well as students from other universities and countries studying online with Trent through the UArctic Circumpolar Studies programme. Like my previous mini-MACs, which students seem to have found enjoyable and educational, the online simulation was the …
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 — …
Schools Newsletter – May 2021
Read our first-ever newsletter for schools to learn about our next Online Model Arctic Council and more!
Launch of ‘The International North and the Arctic Council’ course
Over the past few months, I’ve been developing a new undergraduate course for Trent University, entitled ‘GEOG 2811 The International North and the Arctic Council’. Today that course launches with its first cohort of students—not only from Trent, but from other universities around the world that participate along with Trent in the UArctic Circumpolar Studies …
Student remarks on Trent-Yukon Model Arctic Council
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 …