Faculty Profile, The University of Utah

 
 

LINA M. SVEDIN Curriculum Vitae Biosketch

LINA M. SVEDIN portrait
 
 

Biography

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts 1998, English Department, Political Science Department, University of Stockholm
  • Master of Arts 2001, Political Science Department, University of Stockholm. Project: Perception as a Stepping-Stone to Crisis Cooperation
  • Doctor of Philosophy 2008, Department of Political Science , Syracuse University - Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Project: Organizational Cooperation in Crises

Honors & Awards

  • The Wendy Rice Award for an outstanding professional contribution to the MPA program, University of Utah. University of Utah, 2009
  • 2007 MacManus lecture in public policy “When the crisis ends depends on how it is managed”, West Virginia University, WV, USA. West Virginia University, 2007
  • Teaching Fellow in political science, the Future Professoriate Project, Syracuse University. Syracuse University, 2002

Biography

Lina Svedin is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Utah. She is Swedish by origin and has worked both as a practitioner in government, and as a researcher and training director at the Swedish national center for Crisis Research and Training. Her research focuses on governance challenges in crises. Recent publications include Organizational Cooperation in Crises (Ashgate Publishing), Risk Regulation in the European Union and the United States (Palgrave MacMillan), and Ethics and Crisis Management (Information Age Publishing). She has a forthcoming book, Accountability in Crises and Public Trust in Governing Institutions, scheduled to come out spring 2012 with Routledge. New research projects include ethics in crisis communication, managing health related issues in response to the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, and crisis accountability mechanisms in American public administration. Lina teaches core courses on administrative theory, policy analysis, ethics for public administrators, governance and the economy, as well as crisis management and conflict resolution within the U of U’s Masters of Public Administration program.

 

Languages

  • German, basic.
  • Spanish, basic.
  • Swedish, fluent.

Geographical Regions of Interest

  • Iceland
  • New Zealand
  • Northern America
  • Northern Europe
  • Sweden
  • Western Europe

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