Centre for Saami and Indigenous Studies
The centre coordinates, highlights and strengthens education and research on Saami and Indigenous issues at Nord University and Nordland Research Institute.
Nord University geographically covers the traditional Lule, Pite, Ume and Southern Saami areas in Saepmie/Sámeednam. Nord University has a national responsibility for research and education within Lule Saami and Southern Saami languages and culture.
The centre will also include work on Pite and Ume Saami language and culture. The centre is now in the process of being established. Its' structure and organisational form is planned to be established in 2024.
The centre is organised under the Faculty of Education and Arts.
Leader: Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness
The main purpose of the centre is to coordinate, make visible and strengthen education and research on Saami and indigenous issues at Nord University and Nordland Research Institute.
This includes close collaboration with the Saami community and its' institutions and language and cultural centres, as well as other, external communities of expertise.
In addition, the centre will cooperate with regional, national and international partners. An important goal is to follow up and specify the institutional agreement between Sámi University of Applied Science and Nord University, which was signed in October 2021.
- The university offers studies in Southern Saami and Lule Saami languages. See the Norwegian website for an overview. (In Norwegian).
Faculty of Social Sciences:
INDHOME – Indigenous homemaking as survivance: Homemaking as cultural resilience to the effects of colonization and assimilation
The project explores how Saami and Inuit homemaking as an everyday life practice is a form of cultural resilience after the effects of assimilation, colonization and post-war welfare policies in the Scandinavian countries.Faculty of Education and Arts:
- Saami Research Group (in norwegian)
- Social Justice and Diversity in Education (in norwegian)
- Ownership and Leadership: Pathway for (Endangered) Languages’ Use in School
Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences:
Coming of age in indigenous communities
This project examines ageing, quality of life, and home-based care among two indigenous peoples: Saami in Norway and Atayal in Taiwan.Equitable community participation and marginalised groups
The group profile focuses on research and development work aimed at knowledge about community participation, activity and cooperation for marginalised groups. In the field of community participation, the group develops knowledge of how the voice of marginalised groups can be heard, both in society in general as well as through self-determination in his or her own life.Equitable community participation and marginalised groups
The group profile focuses on research and development work aimed at knowledge about community participation, activity and cooperation for marginalised groups. In the field of community participation, the group develops knowledge of how the voice of marginalised groups can be heard, both in society in general as well as through self-determination in his or her own life.Nordland Research Institute
Nordland Research Institute conducts research on topics which are related to social science, entrepreneurship and environment. The research institute has around 40 employees in Bodø, Svolvær and Mo i Rana.
