Eva Carina Helena Keskitalo#
| Membership Number: | 5801 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.umu.se/en/staff/carina-keskitalo/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3244-7272 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017,10 -2018.04 Visiting scholar at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University.
- 2011,06 - present Professor in Political Science, Department of Geography, Umeå University.
- 2006,11. Associate Professor (docent) in Political Science, Department of Political Science, Umeå University.
- 2005,10. Senior Lecturer (lector) in Political Science, Department of Political Science, Umeå University.
- 2003,01 - 2005,09 Postdoc, International Relations, Department of Social Studies, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland.
- 2000.06 - 2001,06 Visiting Fellow at Dartmouth College (USA), the International Women’s University at Hamburg University (Germany), and Cambridge University (UK). (Approx. 4 months each)
- 1998 - 2002.11 PhD student, International Relations, Department of Social Studies, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland.
Fields of Scholarship
- Arctic region
- Multi-level governance
- Primary resources (forest, water, reindeer husbandry)
- Climate change adaptation
- Environmental policy
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Member of the group of scientific assessors for the Carl XVI Gustafs professur i miljövetenskaplig forskning [Swedish royal professorship in environmental research]
- 2018 - 2022 Member and vice chair of the national Swedish Government Adaptation Committee (under the Swedish Climate Change Framework)
- November 24 2016 - 15 May 2021 Member of the High Level Group of scientific advisors of the EC Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM HLG, later re-named Group of Chief Scientific Advisors GCSA)
- 2012 - 2017 Member of the Global Young Academy (GYA)
- Contributing author to the IPCC WG2 AR5 (2014) report Chapter 16 Adaptation Opportunities, Constraints, and Limits
- 2016 - 2019 Member of ESF College of Expert Reviewers
- 2016 Deputy coordinator of IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations) division 4.04.08 Adaptation to climate change, 2012- and division 7.03.015 Working Party on Social Dimensions of Forest Health
- 2015 Member of Reference Group for the Swedish Environmental Objectives Commission (Miljömålsberedningen) work on a Swedish Climate Act
- 2013 - 2014 Scientific board member, Scientific Council of the National Institute of Economic Research (KI)
- 2014 AcademiaNet excellent women academics member
- 2007 Nils Klim Award, awarded by the Holberg Foundation, Norway, for Nordic research excellence in the social sciences and law
- 2005 - 2007 Secretary and cashier of the Swedish Political Science Organisation (SWEPSA)
- 2006 Umeå Municipality Research Award for environmental research
- 2006 Finalist in the Baltic Challenge Information Technology award with a stakeholder communication website The BALANCE Stakeholder Portal (https://www.northportal.info
), describing climate change impacts on forestry, fishing and reindeer herding in the Barents region.
