| Name of researcher | Field of competence |
| Beate Steinveg, associate professor | High North/Arctic, New World Order, safety politics in Europe, international collaborations |
| Torbjørn Pedersen, professor | High North, Svalbard, Cyberwarfare, hybrid treaths and New World Order |
| Andreas Østhagen, researcher | Geopolitics, safety politics, the High North/Arctic, USA, EU, law of the sea |
| Maria Strandås, associate professor and in the administration of Øvelse Nord | Health preparedness and patient safety. General competence: preparedness and exercise management |
| Kari Skarsaune, study program manager | Specialized nursing |
| Bjørn Olav Haram Knutsen, associate professor | International collaboration, war in Europe, Military strategy in the north |
| Odd Jarl Borch, professor | Safety, High North, preparedness, total defence |
| Kristian Åtland, professor II | Ukraine-war, Russia, High North, Caucasus, New World Order, hybrid warfare |
| Natalia Andreassen, professor | Arctic, maritime preparedness, emergency preparedness organization. |
| Tanja Ellingsen, associate professor | Causes of war and armed conflicts in general, terror/extremism, civil wars/religious wars, New World Order, threats against democracy incl. conspiracy theories and hybrid threats |
| Rune Elvegård, senior advisor | Arctic, maritime preparedness, nuclear preparedness, collaboration exercise, competence development |
| Kjetil Jacobsen, professor | War, violence, democracy and dictatorship |
| Jan-Oddvar Sørnes, professor | Crisis management and planning, media training and media crisis, general crisis management. |
| Gunhild Birgitte Sætren, associate professor | Safety psychology |
| James Badu, research fellow | Arctic, climate change adaptation, resilience and crisis management |
| Emmi Ikonen, research fellow | Arctic maritime preparedness, risk perception |
| Per Arne Godejord, associate professor | Social cyber security, digital company emergency preparedness, safety awareness, social media and cognitive warfare, IT crime. |
Øvelse Nord
Øvelse Nord is a full-scale emergency crisis management exercise where actors within the field of emergency preparedness train for handling major incidents and crises. It is also the largest civilian mainland exercise in the Nordic region.
Contact: Erlend Hagenes og Maria Strandås
Center for Crisis Management and Collaboration - NORDLAB
Center for crisis management and collaboration is a center for science, education and development of crisis management and collaboration within the northern regions. NORDLAB contributes to reach Nord University’s objectives within social security and crisis management.
The center has expertise in educational preparation, planning, execution, and evaluation of exercises. The center's practice-oriented research, in collaboration with society and industry at a national and international level, primarily focuses on emergency crisis management and cooperation in complexity, learning in emergency exercises, and crisis management.
NORDLAB is now expanding and further developing its exercise and simulator laboratory from 70 to 500 square meters to offer modern facilities and technology at the Bodø campus for use in exercises, research, education, and dialogue with emergency preparedness actors.
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