Webinar: Social work in the Arctic (part 1)

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Webinar: Social work in the Arctic (part 1)
Is there something special about social work in the Arctic? If so: What social work challenges are typical to this part of the world?

In four webinars through October 2025, we will illuminate these questions and hopefully give you ideas and knowledge on what research show as important fields of knowledge for social work in the Arctic.

Topics for the webinars

October 9th:

“What are important topics to Social Work in the Arctic? An introduction to the webinars” by Professor Asgeir Solstad, Nord University, Bodø, Norway

October 16th:

“Social work and indigenous peoples” by Professor Nicole Ives and Dr. Ann Seymour, McGill university, Montreal, Canada

October 23rd:

“Social work and climate change” by Professor Mary Dallas Allen, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA

October 30th:

“Urbanization and rurality in the High North – challenges to social work”, by Professor Halldór S. Guðmundsson, University of Iceland, Reykjavik

Practical information

This is a series of four webinars on four Thursdays in October, starting with October 9th and ending with a webinar on Oct. 31st. Each webinar lasts for one hour and fifteen minutes. All webinars will start at 18:00 GMT+2, which is Norwegian time. Check what time this is where you live to find out when it starts in your homeplace. The webinars are open to everybody who cares for social work on the “top of the world”. You can join as many webinars as you want to. Those who join all four webinars can get a diploma, conforming their participation. The webinars are FREE!

Registration

You don‘t have to pay anything to join the webinars. But you have to register on "Nettskjema". Please use this link: Registration (nettskjema.no).

In a week or two before the first webinar on Oct. 9th, you will receive a link to your e-mail that you can use to join all the webinars.

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