SAFER Seminar: Attempts to take progressive inter disciplinary research initiatives for enhancing the safety and resilience of a more and more complex society
We welcome you all to a SAFER seminar March 17th by Associate Prof. Johan Bergström, Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety at Lund University.
When: Tuesday March 17, 2015, at 13:00-14:00
Speaker: Associate Prof. Johan Bergström, Director of the Centre for Societal Resilience at Lund University
Host: Helen Fagerlind
Abstract. How we understand and argue for strategies aimed at enhancing safety of any system fundamentally depends on our understanding of the challenges/risks that these systems face. On the one hand a reductionist understanding of the system implies to locate sources of safety and risk at the behaviour of the constituent component. On the other hand a holistic understanding of the system implies understanding safety measures in terms of relationships and interactions between several different actors. What path do we want to take for future understanding of road safety? If choosing a holistic path the fundamental interdisciplinary of the risk governance problem makes even conducting the research a highly complex task in itself.
Under the virtual platform Lund University Centre for Societal Resilience Lund University attempts to take progressive inter disciplinary research initiatives for enhancing the safety and resilience of a more and more complex society.
Bio. Johan Bergström has an position as Associate Professor at Lund University and is the Director of the Lund University Centre for Societal Resilience. After finalising his PhD, which focused on how an organisations adapt to situations that change from normal to non-normal and potentially further on to a state of crisis, he has been involved in postdoctoral research focusing on the emergence and meaning of resilience as a discourse.
Johan is also deeply involved in teaching and research into topics of Organisational Safety, including being the program manager of the Lund University distance-based MSc Program in Human Factors and Systems Safety in which students represent practitioners and managers from a variety of safety-critical domains.
More information available at: www.risk.lth.se ; www.resilience.lu.se ; www.humanfactors.lth.se
The seminar is open for all who are interested!