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Month: May 2014

19th May – Mundane activities in unfamiliar territory

Posted on May 19, 2014CategoriesField Work, Phd LifeLeave a comment on 19th May – Mundane activities in unfamiliar territory

Today has been filled with emailing, ideas and preparations for the rest of the week’s research. In other words, like many other PhD days, I have been mainly sat at the computor. Like being at home, I sat at the computor at the library for a while, for a change of scene. There’s a great… Read More

18th May – Mountains! 

Posted on May 18, 2014CategoriesField Work, Geography, Ice, LandscapeLeave a comment on 18th May – Mountains! 

Sunday, a good time for landscape loveliness. Glorious spring weather with stunning scenary that one usually only sees on TV/ postcards. It’s hard to know what to ‘do’ with these kind of views, sometimes it seems like some one just flew in a huge film backdrop and plonked it on the horizon! Stunning Svalbard -views… Read More

May 17th- Flags a-flying!

Posted on May 17, 2014CategoriesField Work1 Comment on May 17th- Flags a-flying!

May 17th is Norway’s Constitution day, kicking of with a bang (well a few) at 7am this morning. The majority of the town’s residents and visitors were out and about for the parade today, with smart togs, traditional dress, hi-vis silver band, many flags and ‘hoorahs’. It seemed like a rightly happy occasion and holiday… Read More

16th May- Ice-slush-puddles

Posted on May 16, 2014CategoriesField Work, Ice, Time, ValueLeave a comment on 16th May- Ice-slush-puddles

It is only a matter of time before Svalbard moves into full summer mode and the snow cover receeds. The ‘big melt’ is coming, in fact it might have started today with temperatures edging over the zero degree mark, (though I am holding out for more snow and re-freeze next week :)). Today we saw… Read More

15th May- Value beyond humans

Posted on May 15, 2014CategoriesEnvironmentalism, Field Work, ValueLeave a comment on 15th May- Value beyond humans

Today was an amazingly clear, sunny day, in contrast to yesterday (though it has just come over white and snowy again right now!). It would be all too easy to post a beautiful, postcard perfect landscape shot…but not today at least, though plenty of those have been taken! Influenced by our latest lunchtime listening (a… Read More

14th May – aesthetics, contrast and feeling

Posted on May 14, 2014CategoriesEnvironmentalism, Field WorkLeave a comment on 14th May – aesthetics, contrast and feeling

Today was very white. A balmy -1 degrees C and snow all day, it felt a bit like Christmas! The skyfull of snow blended with the snow on the mountains and all views were turned to just white. Today’s photo got me thinking about a lecture from Michael Haywood that we listened to last night… Read More

13th May- typical tourism with a slight twist

Posted on May 13, 2014CategoriesField Work, Tourism1 Comment on 13th May- typical tourism with a slight twist

We walked out to the easterly town limits this evening. Mainly because I wanted to say ‘hei’ to the cute husky dogs along the way. As we arrived at the infamous polar bear sign however, two gentlemen came along and we watched as they appeared to be having great fun climbing the thing. Assuming they… Read More

Read all about it!

Posted on May 12, 2014CategoriesField Work, Geography, Ice, Phd Life, Value1 Comment on Read all about it!

So, I’ve written a press release, about myself, which is a weird thing to do (but for fellow researchers, it was a fun exercise in writing differently and explaining in plain language). It seems so far no one has gotten round to publishing it, so I might as well do it myself, the glories of… Read More

Svalbard, jeg er her igjen!

Posted on May 12, 2014CategoriesField Work, Geography, TourismLeave a comment on Svalbard, jeg er her igjen!

I’m back in Svalbard (with slightly more Norwegian under my belt) for the next two months for the main fieldwork of the PhD. Most of my time is likely to be spent chasing people around for interviews and discussions, doing said interviews, transcribing them, thinking about them and generally observing the goings on here (more… Read More

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