Karolina Parding

Hot as Hell – Sustainable Skills Supply Strategies as Key to Structural Transformation of the Labour Market in the Arctic

Karolina Parding’s project as Arctic Five Chair seeks to answer the question of what successful local community/municipality attraction strategies can be identified in terms of attracting new individuals and families to the Arctic region, as well as retaining existing ones.

Arctic Five Chair Colleagues

• Emma Lundholm External link.
  Associate Professor and lecturer in Human Geography, at Umeå University
• Birgit Abelsen External link.
  Professor in Health Service Research, at UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Publications

Parding, K; Ek Styvén, M; Lindström, F & Näppä, A (2023). Workplace learning in transient workplaces – the tourism and hospitality industry in the Arctic region. Journal of workplace learning.

Parding, K; Ejdemo, T & Skeppar-Huuva, E (2023). Rekryteringsbehov och utbildningsutbud till och med 2030. Report. Luleå: Länsstyrelsen/Region Norrbotten

Parding, K & Lindberg, L (2022). Kompetensförsörjningsanalys arbetsmarknadsregionen Boden-Luleå. LTU: Luleå. Download PDF here External link.

Ejdemo, T & Parding, K (2018). 51 000 anställningar i Norrbotten till och med 2030. Report. Luleå: Länsstyrelsen. Link to report External link.

Parding, K; Ejdemo T; Skeppar Huuva E (2022). Rekryteringsbehov och utbildningsutbud till och med 2030. Report. Luleå: Region Norrbotten Download PDF here External link.

Funded Research Projects

Employment Value Proposition in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry: Incorporating a Place Attractiveness Perspective (2022-2023).
Funded by NorrlandsNavet
Maria Ek Styvén is main applicant, and I am co-applicant. We will look at the location’s importance in attracting, recruiting and retaining employees in tourism and the hospitality industry.

Skills-supply analysis for Luleå kommun & Boden kommun (2021)

Regional renewal; Recruitment needs and educational needs (2021)
Funded by Länsstyrelsen, region Norrbotten and Luleå University
A follow-up project together with Thomas Ejdemo, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, LTU.

Kompetent, kunnig och stolt: Lärande som varumärkeslöfte i besöksnäringen. (2020)
Funded by BFUF (Besöksnäringens forsknings- och utvecklingsfond)
The project is interdisciplinary and Professor Maria Ek Styvén is the main applicant. I look at conditions for learning in the hospitality industry in The Arctic North, and the results show that for employers to organize for learning is difficult based on the skills supply problem we are in the middle of. No journal article is available yet.

Radio features

• Intervju om kompetensförsörjningsfrågan i norra Sverige, interview for P4 Norrbotten (2022-10-31)
• ”Större rörlighet på arbetsmarknaden oroar arbetsgivare External link, opens in new window.”, interview for P4 Norrbotten (2021-11-22), also broadcasted in Ekot, P1, (2021-11-23)