Category Archives: Extreme contexts

Funding for studying organizational routines in incident command centers

Last night, Oscar, Ola, and I received the news that Riksbankens jubileumsfond will finance our project “Organizational routines in incident command centers: Improving society’s ability to handle extreme events“!!! Please find the abstract below. Abstract The project investigates organizational routines … Continue reading →

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Funding from AFA insurances to study meaningful routines in healthcare

Mattias, Malin and Virginia have received funding (approx 3000 000 kr; 300 000 Euro) from AFA insurances to study meaningful routines in healtcare! Please find the abstract below and more information in the URLs. https://mattiasjacobsson.me/2020/07/09/meaningful-routines/ https://www.afaforsakring.se/nyhetsrum/pressmeddelanden/2020/07/6-miljoner-till-forskning-inom-arbetsmiljo-och-halsa/?fbclid=IwAR08hg-XUe51fMp8JX4qgribnHOKmHoMopWz18jlDRguQGq0m37uLD-olSU It is well-known that … Continue reading →

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The Dark side of team behavior recognized in Financial Times, Irish time and Weltwoche

David and Markus paper on the Dark side of team behavior, with lessons from The Walking Dead was recognized by Financial times. FT wrote a long nice piece on the lessons that could be learned, after having spoken to Markus … Continue reading →

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Presentation by Dr Derin Kent on “Temporal uncertainty” in Storm chasing

Today we had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Derin Kent, a postdoc at Aalto University. Derin spoke on some of his past research but quickly dug into the nitty-gritty details of temporal uncertainty, and how teams of storm chasers … Continue reading →

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Workshop on Leadership challenges associated with extreme events

There have been some developments that have not been written about… A major thing has been a workshop that TripleEd organized together with the Police, Security Police, the County administrative board of Västerbotten, and the defense forces – all representing … Continue reading →

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Presentation by Professor Amy Fraher on “Mindfulness in Action”

Today we had the pleasure of listening to Professor Amy Fraher. It was a very big and diverse crowd with people from the Swedish Police, the police education, the department of pedagogy and Department of Business Administration, having the opportunity … Continue reading →

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PRESENTATION: Professor Amy Fraher on “Mindfulness in Action” on the 4th of April

It is the absolute pleasure of TripleEd to welcome Professor Amy Fraher from Southampton University to us! As part of the visit Professor Fraher will, among other things, give a presentation on “Mindfulness in Action”. The presentation is based on … Continue reading →

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Presentation by Associate professor Andrea Mannberg out of UiT on “risk behavior in avalanche terrain”

We are excited to announce that our final guest of 2018 are a home coming scholar that defended her dissertation at the department of Economics here in Umeå; Andrea Mannberg. She will be visiting TripleEd for week 51 and among … Continue reading →

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Funding received for theory and method development related to the grand challenges

Per and Eivor Wikströms stiftelse gracefully approved our application related to theory and method development in grand challenges associated with extreme contexts. The idea behind the program is to develop an exchange program with scholars in french speaking academic environments. … Continue reading →

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Virginia defends her dissertation!!! – “The interplay of roles and routines: Situating, patterning, and performances in the emergency department”

This Friday Virginia Rosales went from a promising doctoral student to a promising Ph.D. After a successful defense of her dissertation titled “The interplay of roles and routines: Situating, patterning, and performances in the emergency department” she can now call herself … Continue reading →

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