Jan 25, 2024: Alexandra Meyer Successfully Defends Her Doctoral Dissertation
Alexandra Meyer has successfully defended her PhD thesis “Arctic Change: An Ethnography of Entangled Climatic and Societal Transformations in Longyearbyen, Svalbard” at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna.
Her thesis addresses how people in Longyearbyen, Svalbard perceive, live with, and adapt to entangled socio-economic and climatic change change. The research was supported by the EU’s Horizon 2020 project Nunataryuk [Grant Agreement ID: 773421] and the ERC Advanced Grant project InfraNorth [Grant Agreement ID: 885646].