Per Morten Schiefloe

Per Morten Schiefloe (Dr.philos., University of Trondheim, sociology) is professor at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is also founder of and Research Director at Studio Apertura, NTNU Social Research, a part of the Reliability and Safety Studies network (ROSS), which is organizing the SRA-E conference 2013. His main fields of research are sociology of organizations (organizational culture, change processes, innovation, safety, project management), societal safety, networks and social capital.

He is member of several committees, including the technical committee of Center for integrated operations in the petroleum industry and the scientific committee of the International CCS Research Centre. He has published a range of research papers and books, for example reports and papers from the evaluation of the gas blowout at the oil installation Snorre A in 2004, and the introductory textbook to sociology used at all Norwegian universities (last edition 2011). One of his current research interests comprises societal safety after the terror attacks in Norway July 22. 2011.

The topic of professor Schiefloe's key note talk will be "The invisible safety - challenges and dilemmas in preparing for the unexpected".

Last modified: 20 November 2012