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APECS : Nurturing a New Generation of Polar Researchers
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011)
Established in August 2006 by young researchers involved in the planning stages of the fourth International Polar Year (IPY 2007–2008), the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) has evolved into the pre-eminent international organization for polar researchers at the beginning or early stages of their careers. Now comprising over 2,600 members from approximately 74 countries, APECS ...
Scientific (E)quality
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011)
The increased presence of women at all levels of higher education, from undergraduate student to full professor, has given increased currency to an argument that gender balance at the highest levels of academia will inevita- bly be achieved, merely through the passage of time. In this essay, that argument is challenged, both on the basis of its logic and on the basis of empirical studies on the rate ...
Mapping Innovations in North Germanic with GIS
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011-11-17)
The mapping of innovations, as opposed to taxonomic features, has so far been little used in historical linguistics and dialect geography. Here I show with two examples from Peninsular North Germanic how linguistic theory may cast light on complex mosaics of geographically competing features and how dialect geography can help choose between competing reconstructions. This research builds on a database ...