CCC - Centre for Crisis Communication

How can we manage different types of crises and risks in organizations and society through communication? And what significance does media development have for risk and crisis communication?

At CCC, researchers with various skills in crisis management, risk and crisis communication and strategic communication collaborate to find best approaches to society's crisis preparedness and risk and crisis management from a communication perspective. The center conducts both applied and basic research studies as well as method development and training for risk and crisis communication.

Do you have questions? Or suggestions for important future research studies in the field? Or are you may be interested in collaboration with us? Welcome to contact us.

Examples of Recent Articles and Publications

• Rasmussen, J. (2025).  Unpacking qualitative data in organizational trust research: An application to community appraisal of COVID-19 management in Scandinavia.  Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, 20 (5), 21-40.  
  
  
•  Sataøen, H. L. , Østgaard Skotnes, R. , Hansen, K. & Eriksson, M. (2025). Municipal risk communication challenges in the Nordic context: Organizing risk ownership.  Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 16 (1).  
  
  
• Ågren, M. (2025). Strategic Communication and Preparedness: Discursive Legitimation Practices in Swedish Total Defence Organizations. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro University.
  
  
• Landqvist, M. & Blåsjö, M. (2024). Collaboration, reinvented tools and specialist knowledge: Communication professionals’ experiences of global health crisis management. Discourse & Communication, 18 (4), 514-534.
  
  
• Ihlen, Ø. , Nørholm Just, S. , Kjeldsen, J. E. , Mølster, R. , Strand Offerdal, T. , Rasmussen, J. & Skogerbø, E. (2024). Navigating Pandemic Phases: Public Health Authority Communication during COVID-19 in Norway. Nordicom, University of Gothenburg. 
  
  
• Eriksson, M. (2024). A Multi-motive Risk Communication Model for “Making” Crisis Preparedness. I: Audra Diers-Lawson; Andreas Schwarz; Florian Meissner; Silvia Ravazzani, Risk and Crisis Communication in Europe: Towards Integrating Theory and Practice in Unstable and Turbulent Times (ss. 13-27). New York: Routledge. 
  
  
• Eriksson, M. (2024). Living a “Digital Life” and Ready to Cope with Crises? Highlighting Young Adults’ Conceptions of Crisis and Emergency Preparedness.  Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 32 (1). 
  
  
• Rabe, L., Sataøen, H. L. , Lidskog, R. & Eriksson, M. (2024). Making risk communication in practice: dimensions of professional logics in risk and vulnerability assessments.  Journal of Risk Research, 27 (3), 389-403.  
  
  
• Sataøen, H. L. & Renå, H. (2024). "Sharing is Preparing": The role of Information-sharing in Collective Crisis Sensemaking during the July 22 Attack in Oslo. In: Audra Diers-Lawson; Andreas Schwarz; Florian Meissner; Silvia Ravazzani, Risk and Crisis Communication in Europe: Towards Integrating Theory and Practice in Unstable and Turbulent Times. New York: Routledge. 
  
  
• Sandstig, G. & Eriksson, M. (2024). Shared responsibility or not? A responsibility messages experiment during a cyber crisis in designing for risk communication.  Journal of Risk Research, 27 (10), 1163-1179.
  
  
• Ågren, M. (2024). ). Responsibilization as a return to collectivity? Legitimating the responsibilization of preparedness: the case of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB).  Corporate Communications. An International Journal, 29 (7), 92-108.