Seira Duncan

International Arctic Science Committee / University of Eastern Finland

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Seira Duncan is an indigenous Eurasian doctoral researcher in the Social and Cultural Encounters programme at the University of Eastern Finland and was a Fellow at the Arctic Institute and the East-West Center. More recently, she started her fellowship at the International Arctic Science Committee, visiting researcher appointment at the European Centre for Minority Issues and completed her stays as a Visiting PhD Student at the University of Tromsø and Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland). She has studied and/or conducted research in other northern regions including British Columbia, Sápmi (northern Fennoscandia), Svalbard and Hokkaido in northern Japan. She was a Steering Committee Member and Indigenous Youth Lead at the United Nations’ Global Indigenous Youth Summit on Climate Change and is currently an Advisor for the Connecting Climate Minds project at Imperial College London.

Research projects / interests:

  • Climate change and psychological well-being
  • Representations of polar regions in the arts

Areas of interest:

  • Humanities
  • Literature
  • History
  • Human Geography
  • Music
  • Anthropology
  • Cultural Studies
  • Environment

Keywords: polar; alpine; environment; cognitive/cultural/medical anthropology; psychology; the arts; nomadism; indigeneity

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