Lill Rastad Bjørst

Associate Professor, Ph.d. i Arktiske Studier

Associate Professor, Department of Culture and Learning
Associate Professor, The Faculty of Humanities
CIRCLA - Centre for Innovation and Research in Culture and Living in the Arctic

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2871-5828

Phone+45 5355 2095
Emailrastad@hum.aau.dk
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Kroghstræde 3, 3-232
9220 Aalborg Ø
Denmark

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Lill Rastad Bjørst is associate professor at Aalborg University and holds a PhD in Arctic Studies from the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She is head of the research center CIRCLA and academic coordinator for Arctic Studies, a Master’s programme specialization at Aalborg University. Her research interests include Inuit culture and society; climate change and sustainability; mining and industrialization; postcolonialism and tourism.

Head of the research center CIRCLA - Centre for Innovation and Research in Culture and Living in the Arctic
Platform coordinator, AAU Arctic
Academic coordinator for Arctic Studies
Scientific Editor, Man & Society, a subseries of Monographs on Greenland / Meddelelser om Grønland published since 1878 Publisher Museum Tusculanum Press University of Copenhagen

PhD Supervision

2016-2019: Supervisor (secondary supervisor) for PhD fellow Naja Dyrendom Graugaard, PhD project: Discourses of sustainability in relation to Inuit seal hunting and the development of the sealskin Industry in Greenland. Aalborg University

2017-2020: Supervisor (secondary supervisor) for PhD fellow Daniela Chimirri PhD project: Community collaboration as potential resource for developing tourism in and for Greenland. Aalborg University

Keywords

Discourse and Society
Public Discourse
Environment
Problem Based Learning

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Projects 2012 2024

1 Not started
1 Active
13 Finished

IMAGINE PoCo: Imagining Independence - Greenland's Postcolonial Politics of Comparison

Gad, U. P., Bjørst, L. R., Ren, C., Abildgaard, M. S., Jacobsen, R. B. & Rud, S.

01/02/2020 → 31/12/2023

Project: Research

FACE-IT: The future of Arctic coastal ecosystems - Identifying transitions in fjord systems and adjacent coastal Areas

Bjørst, L. R., Hovelsrud, G., Veland , S. & Dannevig , H.

01/10/2020 → 01/10/2024

Project: Research

Sustainable business and demography: Exploring critical links between gender youth and small-scale business development in fisheries and tourism in South Greenland

Bjørst, L. R., Jacobsen, R. B., Ren, C., James, L., Pristed Nielsen, H., Delaney, A. E., Christensen, H. T., Hayfield, E. A., Gjørup, C. L. & Chimirri, D.

01/09/2017 → 31/08/2018

Project: Research

Konsortium for Grønlandsforskning

Bjørst, L. R., Hansen, A. M., Pertoldi, C., Schlütter, M. M., Ejbye-Ernst, R. & Pagh, S.

01/11/2016 → 24/05/2017

Project: Other

POSUSA: Politics of Postcoloniality and Sustainability in the Arctic (POSUSA)

Gad, U. P., Strandsbjerg, J., Bjørst, L. R., Graugaard, N. D. & Jacobsen, M.

01/02/2016 → 31/12/2019

Project: Research

Research Output 2004 2020

Grönländische Klimatheorien in einer klimatisch veränderten Welt

Bjørst, L. R., 2020, (Accepted/In press) Continuities and discontinuities in the life of Greenlandic Inuit . Sowa, F. (ed.). Barbara Budrich Publishers

Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

Branding on the Nordic margins: Greenland brand configurations

Ren, C. B., Gad, U. P. & Bjørst, L. R., 20 Dec 2019, The Nordic Wave in Place Branding : Poetics, Practices, Politics. Lucarelli, A., Cassinger, C. & Gyimóthy, S. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 160-174 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

food

tourism sector

industry

diplomacy

tourist

ÅRSRAPPORT 2017: AAU ARCTIC

Bjørst, L. R. & Hansen, A. M. (ed.), 1 May 2018, Aalborg Universitet. 50 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Report › Communication

Open Access

Småskalavirksomheder i Sydgrønland: Eksempler på bæredygtig erhvervsudvikling og iværksætteri

Jacobsen, R. B. & Bjørst, L. R., 4 Dec 2018, In : Tidsskriftet Grønland. 66, 4, p. 283-294 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

The right to 'sustainable development' and Greenland’s lack of a climate policy

Bjørst, L. R., 5 Nov 2018, Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic: Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time. Gad, U. P. & Strandsbjerg, J. (eds.). Routledge: Routledge, p. 120-135 15 p. (Routledge Studies in Sustainability).

Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

environmental policy

sustainable development

climate change

sustainability

arctic environment