Zdenka Sokolíčková (CZ)

Zdenka is a guest researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, mentored by Thomas Hylland Eriksen during her research project boREALIFE: Overheating in the High Arctic (fieldwork in Longyearbyen 2019-2021).

She is interested in the interconnectedness of environmental, economic and societal change in the globalized and overheated world. She is the Board Leader of the Svalbard Social Science Initiative and Associate Professor at the Department of Studies in Culture and Religion, University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. In March 2021, she is joining the interdisciplinary team at the Arctic Centre in Groningen, the Netherlands, as a postdoc in the project SVALUR: Understanding Resilience and Long-Term Environmental Change in the High Arctic: Narrative-Based Analyses from Svalbard.