Adam Świtała is a composer, musician, teacher, and researcher. Doctoral Candidate at the School of Education, University of Iceland. Member of the Advocacy Standing Committee and Music in Schools and Teacher Education (MISTEC) Commissioner of the International Society for Music Education (ISME). 2018-2020 member of the Editorial Board of the ISME/Routledge book series ‘Specialist Themes […]

Dr. angela Snæfellsjökuls rawlings is a Canadian-Icelandic interdisciplinary artist-researcher with an ecological emphasis. They work with languages as dominant exploratory material. rawlings’ books include Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006), Gibber (online, 2012), o w n (CUE BOOKS, 2015), si tu (MaMa Multimedijalni Institut, 2017), and Sound of Mull (Laboratory for Aesthetics and […]

Ásthildur Jónsdóttir, Iceland (b. 1970) has PhD from University of Iceland and Doctor of Arts from University of Lapland. MA from NYU and Med from University of Iceland. She is an artist, researcher, curator and teacher educator at University of Iceland. She has studied artistic actions for sustainability, community-based art and participatory art practices when […]

Scholar of literature and the director of the University of Iceland’s Research Centre in Þingeyjarsveit. Author of the book Hamfarir í Bókmenntum og listum (Disasters in Literature and the Arts).

Auður is an assistant professor of childhood, youth and education studies at the School of Education, University of Iceland. The common nominator of her research interests is power and power relations in connection to education and parenting, including around sustainability practices. She has focused on understanding the social reality of parents, especially mothers, in Iceland […]

Cody Alexander Skahan is a graduate of the MA program in Anthropology at the University of Iceland as a Leifur Eriksson Fellow and a current PhD student in anthropology at the University of Oxford as an ESRC Grand Union DTP Fellow. Building on his master’s, his PhD fieldwork takes place in Iceland to investigate the […]

Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir is a lector at the Icelandic University of Fine Arts and a researcher at the University of Iceland (more information coming soon).

Gunndís Ýr Finnbogadóttir is a visual artist and an associate professor at the Iceland University of the Arts, Department of Arts Education. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Iceland, School of Education, investigating environmental immersion and movement in thinking in an artistic research project aimed at developing environmental pedagogies.

Gyde Rudolph is a master’s student in the Sea and Society programme at the University of Gothenburg and works as a project assistant at the Icelandic Tourism Research Centre. She is an interdisciplinary marine social scientist focused on the relationships between people and the sea, exploring themes such as identity, sense of place, and coastal well-being.

Her current fieldwork in Húsavík, Iceland and Skjervøy, Norway investigates human – whale relations and how encounters with cetaceans shape our connection to the ocean. With a background in linguistics and literature, she is also interested in how narrative, arts, and storytelling can support more meaningful and regenerative relationships with marine environments.

Helga Ögmundardóttir is an environmental anthropologist at the University of Iceland. Her research portal in English is available at https://english.hi.is/staff_search Her research portal in Icelandic (which has more information than in English): https://hi.is/starfsfolk/helgaog

I am an independent journalist specialised in climate and energy issues with a Masters degree in journalism from the University of Iceland. I write articles and conduct video-interviews about climate-related issues on my dedicated website kolefniogmenn.is.

Ólafur Páll Jónsson is a professor of philosophy at the School of Education, University of Iceland. He works on philosophy of education, mainly on theories of democracy and social justice, philosophy of nature, and sustainability education. He is the author of several books on philosophy, Annáll um líf í annasömum heimi [A chronicle of a life in […]

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Iceland and the organizer of this project. I teach a course called Ethics of Nature which is open to students from a wide range of disciplines. Besides climate change and social change I am also interested in topics like philosophy of biology and ecology.

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Sigrún Alba Sigurðardóttir is a PhD student at the Faculty for Languages and Cultures at University of Iceland, writer and curator. She was Assistant and Associate Professor at the Iceland University of the Arts from 2011-2021 and Dean of the Department for Design and Architecture for a period of four years. She is now working on a PhD project at the University of Iceland on poetic storytelling and earthbound relations in Danish Art and Literature. Sigrún Alba has published numerous books and articles in Icelandic and English on contemporary art and on memory, trauma, historiography and photography, as well as fiction.

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Dr. Þorvarður Árnason, Associate Research Professor and Director of the Hornafjordur Research Centre, University of Iceland, co-creator of the documentary After Ice. Dr. Þorvarður Árnason is a leading environmental scholar and founding  figure of the Integrated Environmental Humanities in Iceland. His academic background is highly interdisciplinary, involving studies in biology, filmmaking, and environmental philosophy and […]