Advisory board

The Centre for Research on Sustainable Societal Transformation (CRS) is a cross-disciplinary research centre for research on societal and scientific challenges for the past, present and future.

Activities involve research, doctoral studies and research dissemination, that is, activities that communicate research results to the international research community and utilise research in society.

Advisory board

CRS is led by an advisory board of nine members, including a chairperson and a doctoral student representative.

External members

Professor Karolina Isaksson (chair), The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
Georg Andrén, County Governor, County Administrative Board, Värmland
Professor emerita Gunnel Forsberg, Professor emerita in Human Geography with a speciality in Urban and Regional Planning, Stockholm University
Lukas Smas, Human Geography, Stockholm University
Susanne Søholt, Regionforskningsinstituttet NIBR, Oslo Metropolitan University
Malin Vikner, regional development strategist, Region Värmland

Doctoral student representative Tove Bodland, Risk- and Environmental studies

Members from Karlstad University

Satu Heikkinen, Senior lecturer in Sociology
Fredrik Krohn Andersson, Associate professor in Art history and Senior lecturer in Cultural studies