Peter Månsson receives a 2-year post-doc award
In September 2018, Peter Månsson successfully defended his thesis ”Indivisible Wholes and Fragmented Realities: On the Aggregation of Disaster Risk Information”. The scientific council at the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) has now granted Peter a 2-year post-doc award that allows him to explore how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can [...]
New Publication by Henrik Hassel and Alexander Cedergren
Henrik Hassel and Alexander Cedergren have published a new paper in Risk Analysis. The title is “Exploring the Conceptual Foundation of Continuity Management in the Context of Societal Safety” and the paper addresses the increasing use of continuity concepts in the societal safety area. Challenges in operationalizing continuity concepts as well as [...]
Summary of ASCENT project
The ASCENT (Advancing Skill Creation to Enhance Transformation) project is nearing completion, read more about the project's achievements below.
New Sida grant for a capacity development study
The Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety has received a grant of SEK 940 000 from Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) to conduct a 13-month study with a network of Swedish public agencies to explore the current thinking of and approaches to their capacity development support abroad. The project, titled SPACAP, has [...]
Nytt anslag från Vinnova
Avdelningen för riskhantering och samhällssäkerhet har tillsammans med LUCE (Lund University Commissioned Education) har fått ett anslag på 1,5 miljoner kr beviljat från Vinnova. Projektet, som heter Mot Ökad Krishanteringsförmåga i en Allt komplexare och föränderlig värld, handlar om att utveckla korta, flexibla kurser på avancerad nivå. Kurserna, [...]
Utlysning av Doktorandtjänster inom Kritiska Flöden och Försörjningssäkerhet
Doktorandanställningarna är en del av det större tvärdisciplinära forskningsprojektet ”Kritiska flöden och försörjningskedjor under hot i förändring”, finansierat av MSB under perioden 2019-2023. Projektet skall studera försörjningsfrågor och kritiska flöden av varor och tjänster under såväl normala som mer extrema hotbilder inom sektorerna [...]
Challenging hegemonic masculinities: Discussions at the Gender, Disaster and Climate Risk Summer school 2018
Intense discussions and particpants at work! After a succeful completion! We are all smiles. Special thanks to SASNET for sponsorship and believing in us!
New dissertation: Indivisible Wholes & Fragmented Realities. On the Aggregation of Disaster Risk Information
On Friday 21 September 2018, Peter Månsson will defend his doctoral thesis titled Indivisible Wholes & Fragmented Realities. On the Aggregation of Disaster Risk Information. The thesis investigates the possibility of understanding disaster risk. Specifically, it explores the challenges and prerequisites of collecting and making sense of disaster [...]
Gender and participation in climate change adaptation
Phu Doma Lama, PhD candidate, discusses in this blog the dominant discourses in and around climate change adaptation policies, critically looking at participation and gender issues.You can read it here.
Summer School 2018: Gender, Disaster and Climate Risk
The Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety is arranging a summer school on the topic: Gender, Disaster and Climate Risk. More information can be found here. Application deadline: July 31st 2018