Final field trip to Lærdal – September 2015
PhD-student Nina Heidenstrøm completed the data collection for the case study of the Lærdal fire in mid-september. Her final fieldtrip included interviews with householders and stakeholders in Lærdal.
Abstract for the NEEDS conference 2015 accepted
PhD student Nina Heidenstrøm from SIFO and researcher Linda Kvarnlöf from the Mid-Sweden University will present a comparison between two case studies, the fire in Lærdal and the storm Ivar, at the NEEDS conference 9-11 December 2015.
Three PhD course essays accepted
During spring 2015, Nina Heidenstrøm has participated in three PhD courses at the University of Oslo, “Philosophy of Science”, “Research Ethics”, and “Texts in the field”. She has completed three essays which now have been accepted:
Homerisk presentation at SRA conference Maastrich
Bödvar Tomasson, University of Iceland ( co-author Harald Throne-Holst, SIFO) presented the paper Comparing assigned roles of households in the Nordic risk management plans at the 24th SRA-Europe Conference ‘Science, Policy and Society – Bridging the gap between risk and science‘ in Maastricht, Netherlands, June 15th-16th 2015, in the ‘Risk Communication’ session.
June 12th: Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology wins international price
Congratulations to our HOMERISK partner Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology (Norsk teknisk museum) who this week won the international Mariano gago Ecsite award for their exhibition Ting. This noble international award confirms that the Norwegian Museum of Science and technology is of world class.
Third fieldtrip to Lærdal – May 2015
In the last week of May, PhD Student Nina Heidenstrøm and project manager Ardis Storm-Mathisen from SIFO visited Lærdal for the third time this spring to gather more knowledge on how households handled the electricity and ICT breakdown caused by the fire, and how they prepare for such breakdowns in everyday life. We conducted interviews with several of the affected households, as well as with relevant actors in the municipality and the businesses in Lærdal.
Examples of household preparedness measures: Candles, diesel generator, flash lights. Photos: Nina Heidenstrøm
June 4th-5th: Homerisk partner meeting Reykjavik
The Homerisk partners met in Reykjavik june 4th-5th. The agenda was set to share, compare and discuss preliminary findings in WP 1 (National risk regimes – the role of citizens), fieldwork in WP 2 (Actions of Households in concrete crisis) and to plan the upcoming survey, exhibition and other tasks in WP 3 (Household’s preparedness for crisis events).
Homerisk research assistant Grétar Már Pálsson has defended his MA
We congratulate Grétar Már Pálsson – research assistant in the Icelandic Homerisk team – for having finalised and defended his Master thesis. Homerisk partner colleague Bjørn Karlsson has been his supervisor.
Pálsson, Grétar Már. 2015. Impact on households and critical infrastructures from electricity failure. Two case studies and a survey on public preparedness. 30 RCTS thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of a Magister Scientiarum degree in Civil Engineering. Faculty of Covil and Environmental Engineering. School of Engineering and Natural Sciences. University of Iceland, Reykjavik.
Homerisk attended DIGICOM seminar on Social Media in Crisis Management at PRIO
28th of may 2015 Homerisk researcher Harald Throne-Holst attended the seminar Social Media in Crisis Management – Future and limits of communicating with crowds during emergencies arranged by the DIGICOM project at PRIO.