The Centre for Retail Studies is a non-profit organisation with the mission to reinforce the Icelandic retail, tourism and service sector’s competitiveness. All our research and development activities aim to provide practical solutions to these industries and its employees’.

Fields of activities

• Retail and tourism statistics
• Applied research in economics, business administration and consumer behaviour
• Analysis and enquiries on retail and tourist prospects for public and private stakeholders
• Service innovation
• VET (vocational education and training) development for retail and service sector
• Analysis on retail development

We have long experience in collaboration with Scandinavian and European knowledge centres and can offer a wide expertise and recent knowledge of which service industries can gain from. Examples of research projects funded by the Northern periphery Programme is “Retail in Rural Regions” (2008-2011) and “Tourist Guide for Northern Periphery” (2010-2013).

• Ph.D. in Immunology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 1998

• Children‘s health
• Public health
• Environment and health
• Role of genetics in disease
• Immunology
• Climate Change Risk Perception

Arctic Research

Bibliography at Google Scholar here

• MA. in Polar Law, University of Akureyri, 2013

• Greenlandic Politics
• Seal hunting and traditional hunting
• Arctic Geopolitics
• Polar Law

• Ph.D., anthropology, Manchester University, 1982
• MA. Manchester University, 1974
• BA. University of Iceland, 1972

• Social implications of biomedicine
• Environmental anthropology
• Genetic history
• Inuit societies
• History of slavery
• Human-animal relations
• Glaciers, Volcanos, and the Anthropocene

Arctic Research

Bibliography can be found here

• Search and Rescue
• Project Management
• Quality Control Management and Planning
• Safety Planning

• Ph.D. in Library and information studies, Göteborg University, 2005

• Arctic Research/Arctic Issues
• Education and flexible learning in the Arctic
• Flexible learning
• Climate Change
• Information science

• Civ.Eng., M.Sc

Business development

• Mining
• Renewable Energy
• Heavy industry

Feasibility study, design and project supervision

Environmental issues

Infrastructure

• Ports & Harbour
• Energy transmission
• Sewerage and waste-water management
• water supply systems

Research and development

• Landscape Architect and Environmental and Urban Planner, University of Toronto, Canada, 1984

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• Arctic Data Interfacing and intelligence
• Communication and Outreach
• Environmental Assessment and Planning
• Education and Culture integration
• Informed and responsible utilization of resources
• Promoting and enhancing Business, Tourism and Culture in the North

• M.Sc. Geography, majoring in avalances

• Warning-Forecasting
• Risk analysis
• Avalance research
• Information about avalances

• Renewable Energy
• Oil&Gas Exploration and Production
• Fisheries and Fish Processing
• Infrastructure

• Physical Oceanography
• Climate

• M.A. in Geography, York University, Toronto, 1990

• Regional development and planning
• Socioeconomic impacts of megaprojects
• Development of transportation systems
• Services of general interest

Arctic Research

Bibliography at University of Akureyri is here

• ML in Law, University of Akureyri 2014
• BA in Law, University of Akureyri 2011

• Ph.D. in Food Science from Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Food Science, Göteborg, Sweeden, 1987

• Bio-prospecting
• Microbiology of marine hydrothermal vent system
• Active ingredients for food, feed and cosmetics (antimicrobials and antioxidants)
• Enzyme hydrolysed proteins for marinating food
• New products from large algae
• Shelf life prediction
• Microbial growth models
• Quality and safety of food

• MSc degree in fishery biology from the University of British Columbia (UBC), in Vancouver, Canada, 1999

• Fisheries and marine biology
• Northern and Arctic Fisheries
• Climate effects on stocks
• Ecology of north Icelandic waters

Arctic Research

Bibliography is here.

• Civ.Eng., M.Sc.

Infrastructure

• Sewerage and waste-water management
• water supply systems
• district heating
• planning, Master, Local and Framework Plans, as well as land usage plans
• Road design and maintenance

Environmental consulting and management

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Dept. of Economics, 2002
• M.A. in Economics, University of Manitoba, Canada, 1994

• Arctic Economies
• Economic Development in the North
• Economic Trend Analysis
• Global Change Impacts in the North
• Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
• Human Development in the North
• Living Conditions in the North
• Arctic Social Indicators & Arctic Human/Local Based Monitoring Systems

• BA in Modern studies and Socio and economic development (120 ECTS) Diploma in Polar Law (30 ECTS)

• Modernity
• Rationalization
• Privatization
• Risk

• Ph.D. in Anthropology (major) and History (minor), University of Arizona, 1994

• Cultural and ecological anthropology
• Ethnography, history and qualitative research methods
• Cultures, societies and human development in the Arctic
• Medieval Iceland
• Arctic agriculture and food security

• M.Sc. Engineering geologist from NTNU Trondheim Norway

• Site investigation
• Geological Surveying
• Geodetic Surveying
• Field operations, planning and management
• Road construction
• Hydropower
• Tunnels
• Overhead transmission lines
• Underground cables
• Avalanches
• Rock fall
• Frost actions and permafrost