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Recent M.Phil. and Ph.D. theses undertaken at the Institute
M.Phil.
Some recent examples of thesis topics from our M.Phil. in Polar Studies course:
- The role of Atmospheric and Oceanic forcing in Greenland outlet Glacier Behaviour
- Images of the Indigenous in Modern Media: To what extent is the cross-cultural expansion of the media altering the way arctic indigenous societies are portrayed in western media
- Subglacial Melt Water Drainage at Paakitsoq, West Greenland: insights from a distributed, physically based numerical model
- The Moose River Flood event sequence and the 8,200 BP Cold-Event
- Glacier Inventory by Remote Sensing Systems
- Investigating & Predicting the Mass-balance Flow Variations of Midre Lovenbreen, Svalbard with a Simple Computer Model
- Small-Scale variations in glacier albedo
- Marine Geophysical investigations of channel-like features on the floor of Marguerite trough, Antarctic Peninsula
- Honouring the past, Building the future: Is a truth & reconciliation Commission the Appropriate Forum to address the legacy of Indian residential Schools.
- Marine Geophysical Investigations of the Polar North Atlantic Sea-Floor Scouring at the Mouth of Hudson Strait By Deep-Keeled Icebergs
- Sea ice Variability and Atmospheric Forcing in the Arctic North Atlantic
- Visual Representation of the Arctic & Public Spectacle in Mid-Victorian England. A study of the Arctic Art of WHJ Browne
- Antarctica as an Inspiration Resource
- The Environmental Effects of Hydroelectric Power in Arctic Scandinavia
- Formal Education and Antarctic
- Peripheral Vision: Aspects of Science in the Arctic (1840-1890)
- Comparing the Use of Oral Tradition in Courts for Land Claims: Canada and Australia
- Western Perceptions of the Risks Posed by Russian Nuclear Submarines
- Seeing Cold Places Through Warm Eyes: An examination of the visual representations of the Arctic by popular geographical periodicals throughout the twentieth-century
- Heterotrophic microbial colonization of the interior of shocked rocks from the Haughton Impact Structure, Devon Island, Nunavut, Canadian High Arctic
- Effect of Climate Change and Atmospheric Pollution on Larix spp. Noril'sk, Northern Siberia
- Satellite Monitoring of the Response of Circumarctic Vegetation to Environmental and Anthropogenic Forcing
- Greenlandic Travel Writing in Atuagagdliutit
- Negotiated Authenticity: The Sami Handicraft Market of Sweden
Ph.D.
Some examples of Ph.D. theses undertaken at the Scott Polar Research Institute:
- Numerical modelling of sediment delivery from tidewater glaciers to the marine environment.
- Assessment of Environmental Risk in the Arctic.
- Spatial modelling of pasture use by Komi reindeer herders.
- Patients' experience of shamanic healing in Tuva, Siberia.
- Value and validation: Science in the Arctic, 1820-50.
- GIS and remote sensing applied to reindeer ecology in the European Arctic.
- The corral and the slaughterhouse: knowledge, tradition and the modernization of indigenous reindeer slaughtering practice in Norwegian Arctic.
- Population increase of the Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus Gazella) in the Scotia Sea: Implications for Management.
- The Geophysics of Antarctic Coastal polynyas.
- Gender & Nationalism in Postcolonial Autonomy Movements: A comparison of Nunavut (Canada) and Tuva (Russia).
- Politics and culture among the Russian Sami: Leadership, representation and legitimacy.
- Remote sensing of environmental degradation in the North: Case study of the non-ferrous metal industry in Noril'sk Northern Siberia.
- Sea Ice Variability in Russian Artic Coastal Seas: Influences on the Northern Sea Route.
- Scapegoats of Nationalism: Ethnic Tensions in Sakha (Yakutia), North-eastern Russia.
- Sea Ice cover deformation on the local scale of the mesoscale and its relationship to atmosphere-ocean processes.
- What is means to be a herdsman: the practice and image of reindeer husbandry amoug the Komi of Northern Russia.
- Flipping the Switch: The Transformation of Energy Markets.
- Family Discontinuity and 'Social Orphanhood' in the Russian Far East: Children in Residential Care Institutions.
- Identity and belonging among white migrants in Chukotka.
- Indigenous Self Government Negotiations in the Northwest Territories Canada: Time, Reality and Social Suffering.