Seminar May 4: Collaboration in crisis management training

Collaboration in crisis management training (Lena-Maria öberg)
Evaluations of different kinds of crisis often show that the involved actors should have collaborated more efficiently. For many years the focus within the area of practicing crisis management has been on developing the ability to co-operate. Within learning research as well as within Information Systems research there is a vast literature on computer-supported collaborative learning/work.
However, when it comes to the kind of co-exercises used in crisis management training there is a huge problem consisting of the simple fact that there are very few examples of scientifically sound ways of evaluating exercises, especially whether collaborative exercises really result in greater ability to collaborate. The seminar will be devoted to demonstrating examples of how exercises are conducted and proposing the use of pedagogical models to evaluate the effect of exercises in a systematic way. The seminar will also discuss the role of IT in the realisation and evaluation of exercises that may involve collaboration among actors.

Lena-Maria öberg from the Swedish Mid University
 
Implementing and Integrating Early Warning Systems in a Risk Management Context (Erik Persson)
The focus of my research is on the gap between warning communication and warning response, whether it is communication between organizations at different levels or between organizations and members of the public.
Regarding early warning systems for fluvial floods, I have studied the communication and relationship between organizations in the early warning chain but also the communication and relationship between organizations and members of the public – in particular strategies on building and maintaining awareness and preparedness for risks with very low probability but extreme consequences.
 
Date:  2016-MAY-04
Time: 14:15 and 15:15
Room: 1A349