At the fringes of crisis management: Informal aspects of crisis management
This PhD project studies crisis management from a practice theory perspective to capture informal aspects of crisis management.
Research
The research at RCR focuses on risk, crisis and/or sustainability from a societal perspective, in contrast to a psychological or technical perspective. Many of the research projects are interdisciplinary and collaborative. Learn about our research areas and projects.
Our main research areas
Risk Research
The risk research can be divided into two areas.
The first area includes analyzes of how risks are constructed in relation to normative discourses and power structures in society such as; age, gender, class, ethnicity and sexuality etc.
The second area includes risk assessment in the field of law enforcement, logistics and decision-making models, risk management and risk policy. The risk research is conducted in computer and system sciences, criminology, economics, sociology and political science and collaborates with both public and private actors.
Research coordinator: Minna Lundgren
Crisis Research
In the crisis research trajectory within RCR we adopt a broad view on the concept in both theoretic and practical terms. We research both everyday crises and more extensive events and we focus on professional crisis management actors, as well as voluntary organizations and ordinary households. We pay special attention to the relational perspective of crisis management as well as its delineation through the study of managerial arrangements, collaborations, communication, networks and learning. We also conduct critical analyses on how societal power structures and power differentials play out in the field.
Finally, in the context of RCR lab, we develop ethical approaches, methods, and procedures for epistemic analyses of crises and extraordinary events through the use of experiments and exercises.
Research coordinator: Lena-Maria Öberg
Research on sustainability
Research conducted within RCR addresses the four dimensions of sustainability (economic, social, ecological and cultural) and makes it clear that unsustainable societal processes risk creating risks and crises. The interdisciplinary research in the area aims at considering multiple dimensions of sustainability simultaneously.
This research has a regional and local perspective. For this reason, the objects of study are usually local communities, groups, families or individuals.
Research coordinator: Gustav Lidén
Ongoing Research Projects
Creating Collaborative Resilience Awareness, Analysis and Action for Finance, Food and Fuel Systems in Interactive Games – CCRAAAFFFTING
This project aims to find out how society can best recover from an IT event, natural disaster, political unrest, or something else that dramatically affects payment systems, transport and food supply.
Cross-border collaboration for safety 3 (GSS3)
GSS3 strives to increase safety for residents and guests in the border area between Norway and Sweden.
From communication to action in the heterogeneous society: Understanding and putting risk communication into practice
Communicating about risks is an important part of a society's crisis prevention work. In this project, risk communication is studied in a heterogeneous society from a recipient perspective, with a...
Head injuries in Swedish Ice hockey and the associated risk regulation regime
My thesis concerns risk in the form of head injuries within Swedish ice hockey and associated long-term health effects.
Housing, integration, and labor
A comparison of Sweden's larger cities shows that, in segregated housing areas, income levels are lower and health risks for the residents are higher. Where you live also proves to be of great...
Limiting, enabling, and shaping of Civil society organisations work in a Swedish context
This thesis aims to analyze how civil society organizations (CSOs) work is shaped, limited, and enabled in a Swedish context. As an empirical area, it focuses on the work CSOs do to help refugees a...
Management through networks
This project studies the so-called River groups. The focus is on how collaboration between private and public actors functions as a tool for risk and crisis management. They also study network...
On the governmentalization of sustainability: the case of flood risk mitigation in Sweden
A doctoral student project about the governing of flood risk mitigation.
People, measures and resilience: New ways to study risk communication, responsibility and preparedness
In this project we study the heterogeneous population's knowledge, willingness and conditions to communicate and deal with major societal disturbances.
Perspective on Accessibility - The Relationship Between Infrastructure and Regional Development
The purpose of the study is to investigate the relationship between the transport system (including all modes of transport and infrastructure) and regional development with a special focus on...
Putting out Fires: A Multiple Streams Analysis
What happens after we put out the (forest) fire? Are we prepared for the next one? This project will investigate whether and how crisis preparedness and management, as a policy sector at the local...
Resilience in Sweden: Governance, Social Networks and Learning (RISE)
The overall purpose of this project is to contribute to a resilient society through an in-depth and nuanced understanding of the contextual and underlying factors that create, maintain, break down,...