TripleED has secured significant research funding to fuel our work! This achievement is not just about financial support; it’s the lifeblood that enables us to explore, innovate, and contribute to critical conversations in extreme context studies.
Saying No: The Impact on Custodianship Processes of Elite Organizations
This three-year project, funded by the Swedish Research Council with a grant of 4,919,000 SEK, delves into the intricate processes of saying “no” within elite organizations. Using the Peloton de Gendarmerie de Haute Montagne in Chamonix as a case study, the project examines how decision-making impacts custodianship in high-stakes environments.
From TripleED, Markus and Virginie will lead this groundbreaking initiative, collaborating closely with mountain rescue teams to generate insights that could redefine organizational resilience and decision-making in extreme contexts.
Workshop: In Extremis Umeå 2025
TripleED has also secured funding for an international workshop, In Extremis Umeå 2025, supported by the Swedish Research Council with 192,700 SEK. This workshop will bring together leading scholars and practitioners to exchange ideas and strategies for navigating extreme situations.
Organized by Markus, this event will transform Umeå into a hub of innovation and dialogue, strengthening TripleED’s position as a global thought leader in the field.
Why This Matters
Research funding is more than numbers; it’s the fuel that powers our academic endeavors. These grants allow us to:
- Deepen our understanding of extreme contexts.
- Build meaningful collaborations with elite organizations like the Peloton de Gendarmerie.
- Bring together thought leaders and practitioners to share and co-create knowledge.
For the TripleED team, this funding represents an opportunity to make a real-world impact by addressing critical challenges faced by organizations operating in extreme environments.
This Thursday, we had the pleasure of discussing another paper and trying to collectively make sense of the reviewer’s comments and how to respond to them. This was a great exercise in interpretation, offering learning opportunities for seniors as well as juniors.
The other week TripleED discussed a paper on the routines of ski guides in order to handle some review comments. For the sake of review anonymity we do not go into further detail, but invite you to enjoy the beauty of skiing terrain (see photos).
Creating figures, models, and visualizations of our results is as much part of academia as the texts themselves. As a continuation of Oscar´s talk on visualising data at Skeppsvik Natalie will be doing a creative design workshop for our next TripleED session on Thursday 11 April between 9am – 11 am. She will share some thoughts on design and give a short introduction to using the Affinity software. Then we will all have a go at re-designing one or two models* and discussing ideas as a group.
It is our pleasure to welcome Anna Fahlgård Lahache to Umeå and TripleEd. Anna will meet with the TripleED “gang” and give a talk on her dissertation work titled “The analogue work of digital transformation: Essays on digitalization of public administration from an institutional work perspective. Please find Anna’s bio below.
Gloria Kutscher is a Lecturer in Organization Studies at Southampton Business School. She conducts research on how organizations and individual actors make sense of and respond to different forms of hardship in ways that lead to personal growth and positive social change. By focusing on how these actors notice, make meaning of, and respond to hardship, her research contributes to organizational theories of sensemaking, values and emotions, and institutional change. Gloria’s research has been published in outlets such as Organization Studies, Harvard Business Review and The Routledge Companion to Organizational Diversity Research Methods. Currently, Gloria is social media editor at Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: An International Journal.