Albina Pashkevich

I am an Associate Professor in Tourism Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Nord University, Campus Levanger where I also teach and do research.

I am currently one of the principal investigators for the research project Sustainable Arctic Cruise Communities: from practice to governance (2020-2024), financed by the Norwegian Research Council.

My academic interests and expertise related to the questions of sustainability and community-based development of peripheral coastal communities; revitalisation of post-mining landscapes with the help of cultural heritage tourism; indigenous tourism development and electronic representations of indigenous culture and heritage. One of the main geographical areas for my research activites has been Circumpolar Arctic – including both Canadian and European Arctic, with the specific focus on North-western Russia, but also Fennoscandia (Norway, Sweden and Finland) and Greenland.

I moved to Levanger from Sweden where my husband and children live. I also have a "Norwegian" family (my Norwegian friend's parents and her family) living in Båtsfjord and Hammerfest whom I met in 1997 in Arkhangelsk and since than we are staying in touch.