The Impact of Conflict on Student Exchange in the Arctic Region

Today, we have two guests. First, you will hear from Runar Kliff Berg, who is working as the international student coordinator in the faculty of social sciences at Nord university in Bodø, Norway. He is offering study guidance for all students in the Nordic area, and additionally serves as a student counselor for the circumpolar studies program. Runar is set to complete his Masters of Social Sciences, majoring in International Relations, in 2023, when he is due to complete his thesis on how authoritarian regimes use hybrid warfare against liberal democracies. Our second guest is THESIS’s very own Ekaterina Kurinskaia, known by her classmates as Katya. Katya has two bachelor degrees: one in circumpolar studies and the other in pedagogy, and a masters in European studies with an arctic focus. She is currently working on her second masters, studying higher education, at the University of Oslo.