Måned: april 2015

Ardis Storm-Mathisen and Nina Heidenstrøm (SIFO) will present two papers at the 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association in Prague (August 25-28 2015). Click here for more information.

Paper 1:
Session RN8 – Disaster, Conflict and Social Crisis 
Title: «A network approach to households’ role in electricity and ICT breakdowns»
Authors: Nina Heidenstrøm and Ardis Storm-Mathisen

Paper 2:
RN22 – Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty
Title: «Applying a social practice perspective to risk research»
Authors: Ardis Storm-Mathisen and Nina Heidenstrøm

We congratulate Linda Kvarnlöf – our partner researcher from Mid Sweden University – who have finalised and recently defended her PhD thesis Citizen First Responders: Boundaries, Positionings and Emergence in Stories from the Incident Site. Her thesis  focuses on the role of citizens in crisis and emergency management.

During the second fieldtrip to Lærdal, researchers Ardis Storm-Mathisen and Nina Heidenstrøm were interviewed by the local newspaper, Helg & Kvardag. The full interview can be downloaded here.