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Nicola Witcombe

Nicola Witcombe is Editor at nordics.info, Aarhus University, and the Project Manager of the New Nordic Lexicon project. Areas of research interest include comparative legal studies between Denmark and the UK, particularly in the area of labour law and immigration, and communications and research dissemination. For more information about Nicola Witcombe click here.

Contributions to nordics.info

NNL Pod 15: What is the New Nordic Lexicon podcast series about?

- Daniela Lange Andersen

Listen to a whistlestop tour covering the last 14 podcasts, touching down in Aarhus, Stockholm, Oslo, and Helsinki, and featuring clips from podcasts…

NNL Pod 12+13: Bilingualism, Minority Languages and English in the Nordics

- Elizabeth Peterson

Listen to two podcasts on the socio-political aspects of languages in mainly Sweden and Finland. The discission includes: Finnish speakers in Sweden;…

NNL Pod 12+13: Bilingualism, Minority Languages and English in the Nordics

- Elizabeth Peterson

Listen to two podcasts on the socio-political aspects of languages in mainly Sweden and Finland. The discission includes: Finnish speakers in Sweden;…

Monitoring Digital Data for Mental Health

- Nicola Witcombe

There are pros and cons of using data to monitor and predict mental health problems - in the Nordics as well as elsewhere.

Children’s Broadcasting in the Nordic Region, 1960-1990

- Helle Strandgaard Jensen

A comparison between the Nordic countries’ and the USA’s approach to the TV programme Sesame Street from 1960-1990.

Racial Colorblindness in the Nordic Region

- Nicola Witcombe

Ethnic and racial studies shed light on race in the Nordics, with a focus on Sweden.

The Nordic Model at Risk?: Conversations on Regulation

A black and white smashed window.
- Anne Ilsøe

Podcast: The Nordics and Identity

Stock photo of Helsingør, Denmark
- Anders Ravn Sørensen

From the outside, it is assumed that the populations of the Nordic countries are fairly homogeneous and that there is a relatively high level of…

The 1878 Fireburn uprising in the Danish West Indies

an old map of the danish colonies
- Nicola Witcombe

Even after the abolition of slavery in 1848, conditions for workers in the plantations of the Danish West Indies did not materially improve. This…

Film: Why talk about the Nordics as a region?

Picture of presenter of film about Nordics
- Nicola Witcombe

Are the Nordic countries really that similar to one another? - Or different from the rest of the world? Is discussion of 'the Nordics' simply a…

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Nicola Anne Witcombe