Kara (Kat) Hodgson is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Government at the University of Bergen. Her areas of interest include Arctic politics and governance, Indigenous issues, language, and gender. She received her PhD from UiT-The Arctic University of Norway. One of Kat’s big goals in life is to cross the Arctic Circle in all eight of the circumpolar countries (so far, she has done it in four of them). You can find out more about Kat's research by clicking here.