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Aviâja Lyberth Hauptmann
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Aviaq Fleischer
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Brian Beadle
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Camilla Kleemann-Andersen
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Flemming Nielsen
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Gert Mulvad
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Ingelise Olesen
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Ivalo I. Mathiassen
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Jette Rygaard
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Joan Nymand Larsen
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Kevin Perry
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Kirsten Føns
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Louise Pindstrup Scavenius
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Manumina Lund Jensen
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Mari Kleist
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Arctic conditions in an international perspective
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Greenland internationally
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Regional parties in the Nordic context
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Morten Meldgaard
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+299 34 73 73
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Naja Blytmann Trondhjem
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Najaaraq Demant-Poort
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+299 34 73 37
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Nick Duelund
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Vision problems in Greenlandic children
Pauline Knudsen
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+299 34 73 78
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Arnarulunnguaq
Pelle Tejsner
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+299 34 73 32
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Environmental contamination
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Greenland
Human-animal relations
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Indigenous rights
Mining
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Socio cultural resilience
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Peter Hasle
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[email protected]
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Working environment
Rachael Lorna Johnstone
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[email protected]
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+299 34 73 80
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Decolonization
Gas
Human rights
Hydrocarbons
International law
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Oil
Polar law
Rights of indigenous peoples
Rasmus Leander Nielsen
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[email protected]
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+299 34 73 26
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Greenland & EU
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USA
Rikke Ørngreen
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[email protected]
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Sara Elleskov
PhD student
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[email protected]
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+299 34 74 44
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Sara Olsvig
PhD
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[email protected]
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Silke Reeploeg
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[email protected]
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+299 34 73 90
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Arctic histories & cultures
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Epistemic justice
History
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Steen Beck
Head of center for pedagogical development
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[email protected]
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Steven Arnfjord
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[email protected]
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+299 34 73 31
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Welfare in the Arctic
Tenna Jensen
Assigned associate professor
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Tenna Jensen
Head of research
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[email protected]
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+299 34 73 24 (Communication office)
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Therese Lind Benhardt
PhD student
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[email protected]
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+299 34 73 36
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Greenlandic
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Tine Aagaard
Senior researcher, PhD
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[email protected]
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