Research Centre North West

The University of Iceland Research Centre in Northwest Iceland was founded in 2010 and is located in the village of Skagaströnd. It is one of nine research centres run by the University of Iceland in different parts of the country under the umbrella of The University of Iceland‘s Institute of Research Centres. The Institute's objectives are to meet the demand for research and education all over Iceland, to provide facilities for research projects dealing with local environmental and societal conditions, to provide facilities for students’ field work, to increase access to research based education in rural areas, and to strengthen the University’s ties to local enterprises and daily life in rural areas.

The academic focus of the Research Centre in Northwest Iceland is history. The current director (since 2018) is historian dr. Vilhelm Vilhelmsson. His main research focus is on coercive labour relations and the power relations of everyday life in preindustrial Iceland, particularly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the history of Icelandic immigrants in North America, the regional history of NW-Iceland, the role of arbitration commissions in nineteenth century Iceland and historical theory and methodology.

In cooperation with NES Artist Residency in Skagaströnd, the Research Centre offers facilities for visiting scholars for up to four weeks at a time.

The research centre has a Facebook page with regular updates about what we are up to.

• Arbitration committees in 19th-century Iceland
• Database of arbitration proceedings
• The Home Region of Jón Árnason
• Worlds of Related Coercions in Work (WORCK)

Director

Vilhelm Vilhelmsson

Director

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vilhelmv [at] hi.is

Staff

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