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TAI Bookshelf Podcast - Celebrating 10 Years of The Arctic Institute

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All staff members of The Arctic Institute staff by January 2022. Photo: The Arctic Institute

Your favourite Arctic podcast is back for its third series! As always, co-hosts Liubov Timonina, Romain Chuffart and Saga Helgason chat with scholars and experts to make the Arctic easy and accessible to everyone. Tune in every month and join our in-depth conversations that take you beyond the headlines and right into the latest ideas, challenges, and experiences from the Arctic.

In 2021, The Arctic Institute celebrated its tenth anniversary. In this special episode, Liuba, Saga, and Romain put together interviews with TAI staff members old and new. From the origin story back in 2011 to the work of our research interns, we take you behind the scenes of what makes The Arctic Institute the think-and-do tank we now are.

In this episode, Malte Humpert, Victoria Hermann, Andreas Raspotnik, and Andreas Østhagen take us through the creation of The Arctic Institute and its evolution over the years. Then we hear from some of our old and new researchers about how working at The Arctic Institute has had an impact on their professional lives. At the end of the episode, Liuba and Romain chat about their own experiences from their early days as contributing writers for The Arctic This Week newsletter and app to working for Take Five and developing a podcast. They also reflect on their hopes for the next decade.

As highlighted in this anniversary episode, The Arctic Institute is an all-volunteer independent think tank registered as a 501(c)3 in the United States. As a non-profit organization, we depend on research grants and in-kind donations to help keep our operations running. If you want to help us, you can make a donation using the following link: https://fundly.com/tai-2021-fundraiser.