International
Guest students
Who can apply?
How to apply
Language requirements & tuition
Courses in English, Danish & Greenlandic
Courses in English
Semesters, courses & exams
ECTS & grades
Housing & cost of living
Transport to campus
Guest students' experiences
Guest students at Ilisimatusarfik
523
Visiting scholar program
Who can apply?
How to apply
How to contribute
Your area of research
How to be endorsed
Cooperation
Internationalisation strategy
Partnership agreements
Network agreements
Cooperation agreements
Infogram
Links
Erasmus+
Magna charta
Nordplus
Nusct
Uarctic
Research
Centres
Ilisimatusarfik's centre for Arctic welfare
Ageing in the Arctic
Homelessness in Greenland
Ilaassaagut
Independent study of the IUD case
Children & adolescent research environment
Centre for pedagogical innovation
Natural science didactics
Iluliaq - Greenland research center for learning & education
EduCry
Centre for language research
Greenlandic dialects as linguistic heritage
Greenland center for health research
Nasiffik - centre for foreign & security policy
Greenland-EU relations
Danish Realm research
Projects
Ammassak - fish of life
Arcade
Arctic challenge
Arctic living conditions
Arctic crime
Population survey 2024-2026
Capardus
Sentenced
Forgotten friends
Historical study
Hunting - economic importance
Kinguaariit inuunerissut
Climate & society
Marpart
Population dynamics
Restoring ecosystems
Greenland diet revolution
Independent study of the IUD case
Valuing nature
Wage
Former projects
Centre for children, youth & family research
Arctic oil & gas
Rock flour
Greenlandic media
Paamiut asasara
Rockwell Kent
Soul of the Greenland sled dog
Management in Greenland
Value chains in Nordic fishing communities
Find & communication
Find researcher
193
Find publications
1697
Ilisimatusaat magazine
3
Greenlandic cultural & social research (in Danish)
Videos & podcasts
23
Public lectures
156
Research strategies
Research ethics guidelines
Research office
Before contacting Ilisimatusarfik about research collaboration
Cooperation
Cooperation
International cooperation & agreements
Visiting scholar program
Possible research cooperation
Cooperate with students
Info to guest lecturers
Other
Single course
Borrowing a room
Info to censors
Visit us
Campus Ilimmarfik
Art at campus Ilimmarfik
Alumni network
About
Organization
Organizational chart
Board & minutes
Strategy 2026-2029
Management
Data & statistics
Statistics of enrollment & graduates
Quality assurance & development
Behind
Press room
Ilisimatusarfik in the press
History
Visit us
Campus Ilimmarfik
Art at campus Ilimmarfik
Prices & awards
Other
Borrowing a room
Webshop
Bank info
KAL
DAN
ENG
For all
Print
Print via link
Print
Print via e-mail
Webmail
Ilisimatusarfik's webmail
Office 365
Microsoft Office 365
Reset your password
Microsoft Office 365
WISEflow
Digital exam
TeamViewer
Get help online
For students
Lectio
Intranet & timetable
For staff
Podio
Login with ShareFile
Portal for heads of department
Application, contract & exam planning
Publication
Submit publication to your profile
Front page
Find researcher
Find researcher
Search for researcher
Department
Affiliated
Affiliated
Centre for Language Research
Department of Arctic Social Science & Economics
Department of Arctic Social Science & Economics
Department of Arctic Social Science & Economics
Department of Arctic Social Science & Economics
Department of Arctic Social Science & Economics
Department of Arctic Social Science & Economics
Department of Arctic Social Science & Economics
Department of Arctic Social Science & Economics
Department of Cultural & Social History
Department of Cultural & Social History
Department of Cultural & Social History
Department of Cultural & Social History
Department of Language, Literature & Media
Department of Language, Literature & Media
Department of Language, Literature & Media
Department of Language, Literature & Media
Department of Language, Literature & Media
Department of Language, Literature & Media
Department of Law
Department of Law
Department of SILA
Department of SILA
Department of Social Work
Department of Social Work
Department of Social Work
Department of Social Work
Department of Social Work
Department of Social Work
Department of Theology
Department of Theology
Department of Translation & Interpreting
Department of Translation & Interpreting
Department of Translation & Interpreting
Historical study
Historical study
Institute of Health & Nature
Institute of Health & Nature
Institute of Health & Nature
Institute of Health & Nature
Institute of Health & Nature
Institute of Health & Nature
Institute of Learning
Institute of Learning
Institute of Learning
Institute of Learning
Institute of Learning
Institute of Learning
Institute of Learning
Management
Management
Management
Subject
24-hour care centre
Action research
Adaptation to climate change in the Arctic
Administration
Administrative law
Ageing in the Arctic
Agricultural sustainability
Anthropology
Applied microeconometrics
Archaeology
Arctic biology
Arctic crime
Arctic health
Arctic histories & cultures
Arctic research network
Arctic social indicators
Arnarulunnguaq
Bayesian modeling
Biodiversity
Biological
Bornholmian food
Child participation
Child protection
Children and youth and family research
Children's home
Children’s law
Christianity
Chronically ill patients and next of kin
Church law
Citizenship
Climate change
Climate change in the Arctic
Co-creation
Compliance
Composite indicators
Crime novel
Criminology
Critical pedagogies
Culture
Cyber security
Data protection law
Decolonization
Demographic development
Design-based and inquiry-based research
Didactics
Digital
Diplomacy
Distance learning
Economic development
Economic development & -policy
Economic development policy
Economic history
Ecosystem
Educational technologies
Elementary school
Empowerment
Epistemic
Epistemic justice
Equal rights
Ethics
Extractive industries
Facilitation
Family & inheritance law
Fieldwork as a research approach
Food security
Foreign policy
Foreign policy studies
Gas
Gender
Greenland & EU
Greenland in children literature
Greenlanders’ intestinal flora
Greenlandic
Greenlandic media
Gypsy & roma and traveller rights
Health
Health science
Higher and professional education
Historical study
History
History education
History of law
Homelessness
Human rights
Humanistic health research
Hybrid
Hydrocarbons
ICC
Imprisonment
Indigenous people & health
Inmates’ conditions
Innovation
International law
Interpreting
Interprovincial law
Interventions
Inuit Circumpolar Council
IUD case
Joint Science Education Project
Justice
Language
Language awareness
Language history
Language in society
Language planning
Language policy
Language positions
Lifestyle
Literature
Living conditions in the Arctic
Macroeconomics
Memory studies
Mental health
Microbes
Microbiology
Mining
Mixed market herding based economies
Narrative tradition
Natural science
Natural science didactics
Nordic-arctic and geographically dispersed contexts
Nursing
OHC
Oil
Organisational development and governance
Outdoor schooling
Outreach for socially vulnerable
Participatory design
Patient & next of kin's perspective
Patient and next of kin’s perspective
Pedagogical development
Pedagogy
Placement
Polar law
Policy modeling
Political economy
Politics
Population dynamics in Greenlandic settlements
Prisons
Problem based project work
Problem-based and case-based learning
Project guidance
Public finance
Public institutions
Pupil perspective
Qualitative methodology
Quantitative methodology
Reading
Reading strategies
Religion
Research ethics
Resocialization
Rights of indigenous peoples
Rockwell Kent
Security policy
Security studies
Sentenced to care
Serving of a sentence
Sled dog
Social and economic inequality
Social anthropology
Social policy
Social relations
Social work
Sociology
Socioterminology
Sovereignty
Subsistence economies
Subsistence economy
Survey of living conditions in the Arctic
Sustainable development
Technical terminology
Terminology
The social worker's work area
The social workers’ work area
Theatre
Theology
Traditional Greenlandic food
Translation
Trust and confidence
USA
User involvement in the health care system
Violence (prevention of)
Vision problems in Greenlandic children
Welfare
Welfare in the Arctic
Well-being
Aage Rydstrøm-Poulsen
Emeritus
Email
aarp@uni.gl
Phone
Dep.
Department of Theology
Subjects
Christianity
Religion
Theology
Annemette Hejlsted
Professor
Email
annhe@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 35
Dep.
Department of Language, Literature & Media
Subjects
Arctic crime
Crime novel
Greenland in children literature
Literature
Annemette Nyborg Lauritsen
Acting pro rector
Email
anla@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 60
Dep.
Management
Subjects
Arctic crime
Criminology
Imprisonment
Inmates’ conditions
Prisons
Resocialization
Sentenced to care
Serving of a sentence
Social anthropology
Sociology
Arnaq Grove
Emerita
Email
grove@uni.gl
Phone
Dep.
Department of Translation & Interpreting
Subjects
Greenlandic
Language
Language history
Language policy
Narrative tradition
Technical terminology
Aviâja Lyberth Hauptmann
Head of department
Email
alha@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 33
Dep.
Department of SILA
Subjects
Arctic biology
Greenlanders’ intestinal flora
Lifestyle
Microbes
Microbiology
Traditional Greenlandic food
Aviaq Fleischer
Head of department
Email
avfl@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 65
Dep.
Department of Language, Literature & Media
Subjects
Greenlandic media
Birger Poppel
Emeritus
Email
bipo@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 95
Dep.
Institute of Learning
Subjects
Climate change in the Arctic
Demographic development
Economic development policy
Empowerment
Extractive industries
Mixed market herding based economies
Population dynamics in Greenlandic settlements
Subsistence economies
Survey of living conditions in the Arctic
Birgit Kleist Pedersen
Associate professor, emerita
Email
bipe@uni.gl
Phone
Dep.
Department of Language, Literature & Media
Subjects
Children and youth and family research
Theatre
Bonnie Jensen
Associate professor
Email
boje@uni.gl
Phone
+299 22 89 71
Dep.
Department of Social Work
Subjects
24-hour care centre
Child participation
Child protection
Children's home
Gypsy & roma and traveller rights
Human rights
OHC
Placement
Welfare in the Arctic
Brian Beadle
Lecturer
Email
brbe@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 74 40
Dep.
Department of Arctic Social Science & Economics
Subjects
Agricultural sustainability
Applied microeconometrics
Bayesian modeling
Composite indicators
Well-being
Camilla Kleemann-Andersen
Assistant professor & PhD student
Email
ckla@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 53
Dep.
Department of Language, Literature & Media
Subjects
Greenlandic
Language
Language positions
Cecilia Petrine Molander Pedersen
PhD student
Email
cepep@uni.gl
Phone
Dep.
Institute of Learning
Subjects
Children and youth and family research
Interventions
Mental health
Well-being
Charlothe Petersen Mørkhøj
Lecturer
Email
chpm@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 74 48
Dep.
Department of Social Work
Subjects
Social work
Daniel Thorleifsen
Director
Email
daniel@natmus.gl
Phone
Dep.
Affiliated
Subjects
Historical study
Daniel Thorleifsen
Head of research
Email
oq@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 24 (Communication office)
Dep.
Historical study
Subjects
Historical study
Flemming Nielsen
Head of department
Email
flni@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 79
Dep.
Department of Theology
Subjects
Christianity
Religion
Theology
Gert Mulvad
MD, GP, Doctor h.c.
Email
gm@peqqik.gl
Phone
Dep.
Institute of Health & Nature
Subjects
Arctic health
Arctic research network
Food security
Indigenous people & health
Mental health
Research ethics
Traditional Greenlandic food
Gitte Adler Reimer
Head of institute
Email
gitte@uni.gl
Phone
Dep.
Management
Subjects
Culture
History
Hanne Marie Motzfeldt
Head of department
Email
hmm@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 74 77
Dep.
Department of Law
Subjects
Administrative law
Compliance
Cyber security
Data protection law
Ingelise Olesen
Research coordinator
Email
iole@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 85
Dep.
Institute of Health & Nature
Subjects
Health
Ivalo I. Mathiassen
Assistant professor
Email
ivah@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 74 14
Dep.
Institute of Learning
Subjects
Greenlandic
Reading
Reading strategies
Javier L. Arnaut
Associate professor
Email
jaar@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 29
Dep.
Department of Arctic Social Science & Economics
Subjects
Biodiversity
Climate change
Economic development & -policy
Economic history
Ecosystem
Innovation
Macroeconomics
Policy modeling
Political economy
Public finance
Quantitative methodology
Jeppe Strandsbjerg
Associate professor
Email
jest@uni.gl
Phone
+299 58 58 18
Dep.
Department of Arctic Social Science & Economics
Subjects
Diplomacy
Foreign policy
Foreign policy studies
Security policy
Security studies
Sovereignty
USA
Jette Rygaard
Associate professor, emerita, PhD
Email
jery@uni.gl
Phone
Dep.
Department of Language, Literature & Media
Subjects
Children and youth and family research
Rockwell Kent
Joan Nymand Larsen
Assigned professor
Email
jnla@uni.gl
Phone
Dep.
Department of Arctic Social Science & Economics
Subjects
Adaptation to climate change in the Arctic
Arctic social indicators
Climate change in the Arctic
Economic development
Living conditions in the Arctic
Social and economic inequality
Subsistence economy
Sustainable development
Kevin Perry
Associate professor
Email
perry@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 49
Dep.
Department of Social Work
Subjects
Homelessness
Outreach for socially vulnerable
Sociology
Welfare in the Arctic
Kirsten Føns
Assistant Professor & PhD student
Email
kifs@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 74 11
Dep.
Institute of Learning
Subjects
Didactics
Elementary school
Outdoor schooling
Pedagogy
Laila Hedegaard Pedersen
Head of department
Email
lahp@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 44
Dep.
Department of Translation & Interpreting
Subjects
Interpreting
Translation
Lars Demant-Poort
Associate professor, PhD
Email
lodp@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 74 02
Dep.
Institute of Learning
Subjects
Didactics
Elementary school
Joint Science Education Project
Natural science
Natural science didactics
Pedagogy
Pupil perspective
Lene Seibæk
Professor
Email
lese@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 74 22
Dep.
Institute of Health & Nature
Subjects
Fieldwork as a research approach
Health science
Patient & next of kin's perspective
Qualitative methodology
Quantitative methodology
Lisa Bach
Lecturer
Email
liba@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 45
Dep.
Department of Social Work
Subjects
Social work
Lise Hounsgaard
Professor
Email
lhounsgaard@health.sdu.dk
Phone
Dep.
Institute of Health & Nature
Subjects
Ageing in the Arctic
Fieldwork as a research approach
Health science
Humanistic health research
Nursing
Patient and next of kin’s perspective
Problem based project work
Project guidance
Qualitative methodology
Manumina Lund Jensen
Head of department
Email
maln@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 74 76
Dep.
Department of Cultural & Social History
Subjects
Sled dog
Mari Kleist
Rector
Email
makl@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 04
Dep.
Management
Subjects
Archaeology
Marie Maegaard
Assigned professor
Email
mamae@uni.gl
Phone
Dep.
Department of Language, Literature & Media
Subjects
Language in society
Bornholmian food
Mariekathrine Poppel
Emerita
Email
mkp@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 70
Dep.
Department of Arctic Social Science & Economics
Subjects
Citizenship
Equal rights
Gender
Social policy
Social work
The social worker's work area
Violence (prevention of)
Morten Meldgaard
Assigned professor
Email
mome@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 73
Dep.
Department of SILA
Subjects
Sled dog
Morten Nornild
Lecturer
Email
mono@uni.gl
Phone
Dep.
Department of Law
Subjects
Administrative law
Children’s law
Church law
Family & inheritance law
History of law
Interprovincial law
Naja Blytmann Trondhjem
Head of centre
Email
natr@uni.gl
Phone
Dep.
Centre for Language Research
Subjects
Greenlandic
Language
Language awareness
Language positions
Najaaraq Demant-Poort
Assistant professor & PhD student
Email
nadp@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 37
Dep.
Department of Arctic Social Science & Economics
Subjects
Administration
Politics
Public institutions
Trust and confidence
Nick Duelund
PhD
Email
ndue@uni.gl
Phone
Dep.
Institute of Health & Nature
Subjects
Vision problems in Greenlandic children
Pauline Knudsen
Lecturer
Email
pakk@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 78
Dep.
Department of Cultural & Social History
Subjects
Archaeology
Arnarulunnguaq
Rachael Lorna Johnstone
Adjunct professor
Email
ralo@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 80
Dep.
Department of Arctic Social Science & Economics
Subjects
Decolonization
Gas
Human rights
Hydrocarbons
International law
Mining
Oil
Polar law
Rights of indigenous peoples
Rasmus Leander Nielsen
Head of department
Email
raln@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 26
Dep.
Department of Arctic Social Science & Economics
Subjects
Diplomacy
Foreign policy
Foreign policy studies
Greenland & EU
Security policy
Security studies
Sovereignty
USA
Rikke Ørngreen
Professor
Email
rior@uni.gl
Phone
Dep.
Institute of Learning
Subjects
Co-creation
Design-based and inquiry-based research
Digital
Distance learning
Educational technologies
Facilitation
Higher and professional education
Hybrid
Nordic-arctic and geographically dispersed contexts
Organisational development and governance
Participatory design
Problem-based and case-based learning
Sara Abelsen
Lecturer
Email
saab@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 86
Dep.
Department of Social Work
Subjects
Social work
Sara Elleskov
PhD student
Email
sane@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 74 44
Dep.
Department of Cultural & Social History
Subjects
Anthropology
Archaeology
Biological
Epistemic
Ethics
Justice
Sara Olsvig
PhD
Email
sarol@uni.gl
Phone
Dep.
Affiliated
Subjects
Diplomacy
Foreign policy
Foreign policy studies
ICC
Inuit Circumpolar Council
Security policy
Security studies
Sovereignty
USA
Silke Reeploeg
Associate professor
Email
sire@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 90
Dep.
Department of Cultural & Social History
Subjects
Arctic histories & cultures
Critical pedagogies
Epistemic justice
History
History education
Memory studies
Sustainable development
Steen Beck
Head of center for pedagogical development
Email
stbe@uni.gl
Phone
Dep.
Institute of Learning
Subjects
Pedagogical development
Steven Arnfjord
Acting head of department, Professor
Email
star@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 31
Dep.
Department of Social Work
Subjects
Action research
Homelessness
Outreach for socially vulnerable
Problem based project work
Project guidance
Social policy
Social relations
Social work
Sociology
The social workers’ work area
Welfare in the Arctic
Tenna Jensen
Head of research
Email
oq@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 24 (Communication office)
Dep.
Historical study
Subjects
Health
Historical study
IUD case
Welfare
Therese Lind Benhardt
PhD student
Email
telb@uni.gl
Phone
+299 34 73 36
Dep.
Department of Translation & Interpreting
Subjects
Greenlandic
Language
Language planning
Language policy
Socioterminology
Terminology
Translation
Tine Aagaard
Senior researcher, PhD
Email
tiaa@uni.gl
Phone
Dep.
Institute of Health & Nature
Subjects
Chronically ill patients and next of kin
Health science
Humanistic health research
Nursing
Patient and next of kin’s perspective
Problem based project work
Project guidance
Qualitative methodology
User involvement in the health care system
Search at Ilisimatusarfik