Susann Ullberg

Susann has worked as an analyst at CRISMART since 2001. As a scholar Susann has written several published scientific articles and a number of case studies on crises in different national (Peru, Spain, Argentina) and sectoral contexts (security, environment, infrastructure).

She has contributed to developing frameworks for multi-agency observer efforts between various Swedish authorities, cooperating with the former Swedish Rescue Services Agency, currently the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency. She has also collaborated with the latter to develop Host Nation Support in Sweden. She is actively involved in the establishment of the Centre for Natural Disaster Science, the interdisciplinary center that CRISMART / National Defence College forms part.

Susann is a doctoral student insocial anthropology at Stockholm University. Her dissertation explores the relationship between disasters and processes of social memory. For this, she has between the years 2004-2009 conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Santa Fe in northeastern Argentina, where recurrent extraordinary floods pose a constant challenge to local authorities and the people living there. In the context of her dissertation work, Susann has been a visiting scholar at Wageningen Universiteit (2004) and the University of Florida (2009).

Susann is the coordinator of the European Sociology Association's research network 'Disaster and Social Crisis Research Network'  and is a board member of the International Sociology Association's 'International Research Committee on Sociology of Disasters' (IRCD). She is also an associate researcher at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Stockholm University.

susann.ullberg@fhs.se                         Publications