Doctoral students at CRS graduate school
Tove Bodland, Risk- and environmental studies
My research interest concerns the societal ability to prepare for, manage and recover from extreme weather events. My research is based on a resilience perspective on risk and crisis management in a Swedish context with a focus on the local level (region, municipality and civil society). More specifically I am currently looking at issues related to obstacles and opportunities for collaboration between different societal actors. My research includes various theoretical aspects of community resilience, such as issues of knowledge and learning, relationships and networks and governance.
Dide Dijkers, Risk and environmental studies
When you think of natural hazards in the Nordic region, you may not immediately think of heat waves. Historically, the region has been relatively cool, but as a result of global warming the Nordic region's exposure to heat waves is increasing. Precisely this history and the potential underestimation of the risk of heat, may mean that Nordic populations are not sufficiently adapted to the summers of the (near) future. My research concerns the degree of adaptation of Nordic urban populations to heat. I study people´s thermal comfort, behavioural adaptations, and perceptions of heat-health risks.
Peter van Eerbeek, Human Geography
Peter's dissertation project focuses on the rise of platform companies entering the Swedish public primary care from 2016 onwards by providing consultations with healthcare professionals via apps.
Kristin Gustafsson, Risk- and environmental studies
Nelli Halkosaari, Sociology
My research explores how rest is constructed in digital environments, with a particular focus on YouTube vlogs. I examine how these practices are mediated, normalized, and governed through digital platforms and how Foucauldian concepts such as technologies of the self and governmentality translate into a digital context. By analyzing digital representations of rest, my research contributes to a broader understanding of how the body, subjectivity, and well-being are shaped within digital cultures.
Maja Herstad, Gender Studies/Sociology
My research area is gender equality and diversity work in organizations. In my licentiate thesis I explore emotions as important components of gender equality work in organizations, work often involving spaces where employees and external gender expert functions meet. I am particularly interested in emotions that are valued or common in this work, and their linkages to recurring practices, localized power relations and organizational contexts. My work draws on Sociology of Emotion and Critical studies of gender equality/gender mainstreaming. I am affiliated with the Centre for Gender Studies (CGF) and the research school of the Centre for Research on Sustainable Societal Transformation.
Monika Högsnes
My researchproject investigate experiences, thoughts, feelings and perceptions of psychosocial support in health care for people with acquired brain injury. The study is based on interviews with persons with acquired brain injury and their relatives, that has own experience of psychosocial support.
Jasmin Lind, Political science
Jasmin Lind is a doctoral researcher in political science, studying how Swedish municipalities govern towards social sustainability in tension with growth logics. Her research focuses on how the Agenda 2030 promise to leave no one behind is interpreted and implemented, as well as how Swedish exceptionalism is constructed in relation to marginalized groups.
Lisa Lindqvist, Gender Studies/Sociology
Lisa Lindqvist, PhD candidate in Sociology, studies digital feminism in the Swedish context, especially examples of feminist hashtags. The research is focused on how activism and technology are entangled and how social media platforms give rise to particular expressions of feminism through their features and affordances. Simultaneously, it emphasizes the agency of activists and studies what strategies they employ to perform feminism online.
Leigh Ann Loebs, Social Work
My research concerns violence against children and the help that these children receive from Child Welfare Services. I am a part of an ongoing project at FoU Välfärd Värmland called SAVE - Support and protection Against Violence, on Equal terms for all children. My research has a practical approach, and part of my participation in the SAVE project includes continuing development of the local Child Welfare Services.
Shahab Mirbabaei
My dissertation explores everyday – verbal and physical – practices of racialization among youth. In this study, I approach racialization as a process, and as a form of othering and social differentiation. I have collected data through participant observations and group interviews at a youth recreation center (YRC) in Sweden. Particularly, I am interested in ideas of difference and similarities, categories and stereotypes, racial intersections with other categories, and approaches to phenotypical markers. Through this in-depth study, I will nuance our understanding of when, where and how racialization matters in Sweden.
Magdalena Nordsäter, Risk and environmental studies
My research is all about how gender-power orders affect construction of risks and how it appears in managing risks in countys and regions.
Linda Persson, Risk- and environmental studies
My research is about resistance in relation to issues of environment and risk. The type of resistance I’m looking at is not coming from people who resists environmental action for example, but those who resist current practices, status quo or business as usual. This involves, among other things, studies about counterurbanization as resistance towards the risks of neoliberal urbanization, as well as the Fridays for Future movement inspired by the school strike of Greta Thunberg.
Alesia Rudnik
Ph.D. student in political science. Her research project focuses on analyzing democratization and digitalization of politics in autocratic countries. Doctoral research looks at how social media are used for political mobilization, what are the responses of autocratic regimes, as well as at relations of regimes and social networking platforms.
Alexander Thielen
My research area concerns the researchers relationship to their science communication in mass media. My thesis explores how science communication can be understood as a meaningful tool for Swedish researchers in light of the logic of mass media and academia. I am particularly interested in understanding this phenomenon from the perspective sociology of knowledge.
Kenny Turesson
In my research, I have investigated factors associated with social vulnerability related to climate risks in Sweden, then examined the public’s trust in the rescue service and to what extent individuals protect themselves in the form of owning protective equipment. Continued research intends to investigate how risk in the Swedish context is perceived, understood, and prioritized. My research interest concerns societal risk management with a particular interest in risk understanding and prioritization.
Sai Ganesh Veeravalli, Risk and environmental studies
I am a doctoral student at Karlstad University working within the interdisciplinary project DEPRIMAP. My research focuses on mapping and modeling deprived urban areas (DUAs) in the Global South using geospatial data, morphometric analysis, and machine learning. The work explores the relationships between urban form, vulnerability, and risk to support evidence-based planning for sustainable urban development. I am also involved in teaching geomatics with a focus on UAV (drone) applications and am an active member of the CRS research school and the global IDEAMAPS network that addresses urban deprivation and spatial inequalities.