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.
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
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 Simulation 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 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
This research project examines constructions of household preparedness. From an intersectional perspective, we investigate how class, gender, gender and functionality interact with preparedness...
Research has shown that young people are exposed to violence in a variety of different arenas, including their homes, school, in public and online. This project therefore aims to examine violence...
Climate change is expected to lead to an increase in extreme weather events, such as heat waves, hurricanes, and extreme rainfall. I this project, we investigate how extreme weather events influenc...
Recent research has shown that the effects of violence may linger in spaces and texts, ‘haunting’ them. This project aims to explore such haunting effects of violence narratives in cultural texts i...
My thesis concerns risk in the form of head injuries within Swedish ice hockey and associated long-term health effects.
Covid-19 has forced Swedish emergency responders to work remotely using the Internet. But how should this work be conducted if the Internet or electricity is disrupted?
The aim of this project is to formulate, through a socio-environmental framework, how integrated landscape management in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) can reduce communities’ vulnerability to...
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...
This book project sets out to study local migration policy in Sweden before, during, and after the European migrant crisis of 2015.
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...
In this project we study the heterogeneous population's knowledge, willingness and conditions to communicate and deal with major societal disturbances.
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...
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,...
The overarching aim of SECRA is to contribute to more resilient communities in Asia through institutionalized, systematic, monitored, innovative, and inclusive university enterprise collaboration i...
This research project focuses on barriers and possibilities for increased community gardening in small and medium-sized towns in Sweden. We particularly explore the potential of using community...
The page was updated 5/26/2021
