BIRGEJUPMI extends its warm congratulations to Nina Hermansen on her promotion to Associate Professor in Social Studies at the Institute for Child Protection and Social Work, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Since joining UiT in 2007, Nina has contributed across teaching, research, and academic leadership, including serving as institute head between 2012 and 2020. Her work in child welfare, social work, and child protection studies is grounded in close relations with communities and a commitment to care as a guiding practice.
Within BIRGEJUPMI, Nina is a key contributor to Work Packages 3 and 6, where she engages with Indigenous knowledge systems, community well-being and resilience, and sea- and landscapes understood as living archives in Arctic coastal contexts. Her approach foregrounds relational ways of knowing, listening, and learning with coastal communities, storytelling practices, walking pedagogyand situated, place-based knowledge.
Nina is also an active member of the IVO – Indigenous Voices Research Group, where social consequences of colonization, Indigenous epistemologies, Indigenous methodologies and rights are at the centre of the work.
We honour this recognition of her work and look forward to continuing our collaboration with Nina in BIRGEJUPMI and beyond…
