Christine Grosse

Background

Docent Information Systems / Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
PhD Computer and Systems Sciences / Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden
MSc Information Security / Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
BSc Business Informatics / FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany

Area of interest

My general interest is in information systems and management, particularly in security, organisational and governance issues, such as policy and business analysis, process modelling and development, decision-making and cyber security. I have also a strong interest in interactions between individuals and other parts of complex systems from an information security perspective. Of particular interest for me is how critical infrastructure protection, societal security and crisis management can be understood from a system perspective.

Research

Between 2020 and 2024, I was leader of a research project that was conducted in cooperation with the municipalities in the Sundsvall region. In the project, we investigated the links between the transport system and regional development with a particular focus on accessibility. The overall objective was to provide new knowledge and qualified future scenarios that can support municipal and regional actors in the decision-making processes regarding future strategies and plans in connection with infrastructure investments and business establishments within the region.

Between 2022 and 2024, I was leader of a research prject funded by the Swedish Transport Agency. Together with Ida Kristoffersson and Aron Larsson, I studied lessons and effects of the road speed revision and the effects on accessibility.

In 2023, together with Håkan Gunneriusson, I participated in a study regarding total defence in Sweden that studied the inventory and activation of specific volunteer resources in the Region Jämtland Härjedalen. The study was funded by the municipality of Östersund in collaboration with the Mid Sweden University.

Between 2022 and 2023, together with colleagues from the RCR, we conducted a commissioned study to evaluate the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency's management of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Between 2021 and 2023, together with colleagues from the RCR, I participated in a research project entitled ’People, metrics and resilience: New ways of studying risk communication, responsibility and preparedness’. The interdisciplinary research project was funded by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB).

During 2022, together with Rosemarie Ankre, Joel Jacobsson and Pär Olausson, I studied collaboration on the interplay of sustainable regional development and accessibility in rural areas. This project was financed by the municipality of Östersund in collaboration with the Mid Sweden University.

My doctoral dissertation, which I successfully completed and defended in 2020 and which received the ScAIEM thesis award 2021, is about systemic governance of the complex system that relate to critical infrastructure protection in society. The Swedish crisis managment system in general and the planning for protecting critical infrastructure against power shortages, called Styrel, serve as implemented examples for analysis and synthesis.

Between 2020 and 2021, together with Aron Larsson, a colleague from the RCR and FODI, I reviewed scientific literature, national and international policies and standards to investigate the demand and use of data in the context of large accidents and crises. This study, funded by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), focused primarily on applications of quantitative or semi-quantitative risk analysis in the context of critical infrastructure.

In 2020, together with Håkan Gunneriusson, a colleague from the RCR, I conducted a pilot study on the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency’s (MSB) role in the development of the total defence at regional and local level in Sweden.

During 2019, supported by colleagues from the RCR, I completed a pilot study that has addressed the role of regional airports as critical infrastructure from national, regional and local perspectives. This project was financed by the municipalities of Sundsvall and Timrå in collaboration with the Mid Sweden University.

Between 2015 and 2018, together with colleagues from the RCR, I completed a study on challenges for governance in a complex response planning process that is dedicated to critical infrastructure protection, called STYREL. The interdisciplinary research project was funded by the Swedish Energy Agency.

In spring 2018, together with colleagues from the RCR, I completed a study funded by MSB (the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency), where risk communication in eight different EU countries' was studied and compared.

Teaching and tutoring

Courses and supervising

Other information

Forum for digitalisation (FODI)

Research projects

Finished

Perspectives on Accessibility - The relationships between infrastructure and regional development