Doctoral students at CRS graduate school
Khabat Amin, Risk- and environmental studies
Researches on safety for pedestrians in road traffic environment.
Sofia Billebo, Human Geography
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.
Peter van Eerbeek, Human Geography
Mathilde de Goër de Herve, Risk- and environmental studies
Mathilde’s doctoral thesis studies justice issues within risk management. In the context of sustainable development, she considers different dimensions of justice: social, ecological, spatial and temporal. In a first part of her thesis, she investigates justice considerations in flood risk management and develops a general framework called risk justice. In a second part, she looks deeper at temporal aspects of disaster risk management and their impacts on future generations.
Kristin Gustafsson, Risk- and environmental studies
Per Göransson, Human Geography
In my research, I examine the relationship between choirs, place and societal context. The background to this is that Sweden is usually described as one of the world's most secular countries. However, religious elements are still present in society. For example, through religiously coloured cultural activities and different types of encounters and tensions between religious and secular expressions in our society. Analysing choirs in a Swedish context is interesting as about six percent of the population regularly sings in a choir. The choir members are geographically distributed all over Sweden in both urban and rural contexts. Choirs also have a long tradition as a Christian cultural expression, which has provided a rich cultural heritage from the long history of earlier choral activities in Sweden. There are also a large number of both sacred (religious) choirs and secular (non-religious) choral activities in Sweden. Choral activities are an example that can highlight the encounter between the sacred and the secular and how it is distributed geographically in a secularised country like Sweden.
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.
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.
Kristoffer Nilsson, Social Work
His thesis investigates public views, opinions and trust of local authorities’ social services and social workers. Factors advancing perceptions and trust as well as consequences for social work practice are explored. Both in relation to social workers day-to-day practices as well as in relation to the social services as an organisation.
Michaela Padden, Political Science
I am interested in policy and regulation concerning ‘big data,’ in particular whether the current European data protection framework is sufficient to meet not only privacy needs, but emerging ethical/political/legal challenges posed by processes such as real-time tracking, predictive analytics, algorithmic decision-making and the goal of behaviour modification.
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.
Johanna Tangnäs, Political Science
My research interests include governance, democracy, political legitimacy and possibilities for transformation. The research I am conducting for my PhD in Political science is focused on the absence of political articulation and conflicts within the area of growth and sustainability (primarily in a Swedish context). I am interested in movements and discursive practices in Swedish regions, deriving from the changes and challenges at the international level, but which nonetheless possess a certain regional logic.
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.