Anna Burdenski

‘I am associate researcher for the Snow2Rain project and PhD candidate at the department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. In the long-term, I hope that our work contributes to a better understanding of how environmental changes are affecting life in East Greenland.

As anthropologist, my role for the project is establishing a collaboration with the local community in Tasiilaq and facilitating a co-operation between community members and researchers. My emphasis is the exploration of human-environment relations and local dynamics in relation to environmental changes. I have an educational background in social sciences, specific social and cultural anthropology and global tourism development. As a young researcher, my ongoing focus is Polar/Arctic research, in particular Greenland. My interest in Greenland began during my master studies at Aalborg University Copenhagen. Since then, I have lived, worked and travelled along different places in Greenland. I accomplished a research project at the Greenlandic Tourism Board and dedicated my master thesis to the potential of Greenlandic tour guides within the tourism landscape of the country.’

If you are curious, would like to know more or share your ideas, you can contact me directly via: anna.burdenski@univie.ac.at