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Welcome at my page - I am Professor of Innovations in Crisis Management and Societal Resilience in the Faculty of Social Sciences, part-time seconded to the Faculty of Science.
I am co-founder of the Crisis Resilience Academy of the Institute for Societal Resilience. I was elected board member of the Association Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) from 2016 - 2022. Since 2019 I am member of the steering committee of KUNO: Platform for Humanitarian Knowledge Exchange. I was visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the USA, and at the Disaster Management Training and Education Centre for Africa (DiMTEC) of the University of the Free State in South Africa.
Research Agenda
In my research I use my background in Science and Technology Studies (STS) to study crisis and disaster governance and societial resilience in relation to grand challenges. You can find the text of my Inaugural lecture here in Dutch and here in English. I did research and taught on crisis management, organizational change and societial resilience in different parts of the world including Nepal, the Philippines, China and Japan, Malawi and South Africa, the USA and in various countries across Europe.
I was research manager of the program Organization & Processes of Organizing in Society (OPOS). Currenlty I am member of the Research Assessment Board, Faculty of Social Sciences.
I have been expert member of various advisory committees on crisis-governance, crisis evaluation, and societal resilience including those of the WODC (the Research and Documentation Centre of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security), the NIPV (the Netherlands Institute for Public Safety), the LOT-C (National Operational Team Covid), the Dutch Parliament, the EU JRC (Joint Research Center) and various EU committees including the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) in this policy brief.
I am research proposal evaluator and pre-advisor of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and of other National Science Foundations including those of Belgium, Canada, Finland, Norway, Switzerland and South Africa.
Teaching
My courses are related to topics such as organizational theory, physical safety, crisis and disaster governance, innovation management, and organizational culture. I teach at Bachelor's, Master's and Graduate School Level and hold University Teaching Qualification (BKO) and Senior Qualification Teaching (SKO) certificates. I served the Master's Programmes Science, Business and Innovation (SBI), Culture, Organization and Management (COM) and Policy, Communication and Organizations (BCO) as director. I was member of the Programme Committe SBI and of the Examination Board of the Faculty of Social Sciences for serveral years.
Current courses
Graduate School
Master's
Bachelor's
Current grants (selection)
Grant from the Chile “Concurso de Fomento a la Vinculación Internacional para Instituciones de Investigación, convocatoria 2024”, Territories and risk governance: strengthening inter-discipline to prevent socio-natural disasters, main applicant dr. Ricardo Fuentealba (University of O'Higgins), with dr. Nathan Clark (VU Amsterdam) and dr. Emmanuel Raju (University of Copenhagen), 30 K€
2023-2026: EU Horizon grant: "SYNERGIES: Innovating Preparedness by Leveraging Synergied and Enhancing Results of DRM Projects", WP leader with dr. Nathan Clark. Grant: €5.0M. VUA budget: €500K.
2022-2024: NWO/NWA grant: "Institutional Resilience, Organizational Healing, and Adaptive Capacity in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic", project in a larger grant on BASICS for Resilience Building Adaptive, Collaborative, and Inclusive Capacities for Resilient Societies. With dr. Lianne Cremers and Cato Janssen. Budget: €100K.
Previous grants (selection)
Awards
Supervised PhD candidates as (co)promotor
Realized:
Ancillary activities are updated daily
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Book / Report › Report › Professional
Boersma, K. (Principal Investigator), Clark, N. E. (Project Researcher) & Roeloffs, E. (Project Researcher)
1/12/23 → 30/11/26
Project: Research
Boersma, K. (Principal Investigator), van der Lee, R. (Project Researcher), Clark, N. E. (Project Researcher), Jagarnathsingh, R. (Project Researcher), Rijkx, L. (Project Researcher), Tzavella, K. (Project Researcher), Larruina, R. (Project Researcher) & Roeloffs, E. (Project Researcher)
1/06/20 → 31/01/24
Project: Research
Blankesteijn , M. L. (Participant), Boersma, K. (Participant) & Hoogstraaten, M. (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference › Academic
van Schoonhoven, R. (Speaker), Bannink, D. (Speaker), Kingma, S. F. (Speaker) & Boersma, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
Ferguson, J. (Associate editor), Schmidt, A. J. (Associate editor) & Boersma, F. K. (Associate editor)
Activity: Peer review and Editorial work › Editorial work › Academic
Veenswijk, M. (Examiner) & Boersma, K. (Examiner)
Activity: PhD thesis Examination › PhD thesis examination
Boersma, F. K. (Recipient), 10 Jan 2016
Prize / Grant: Prize › Academic
Boersma, F. K. (Recipient), 22 May 2018
Prize / Grant: Prize › Academic
Boersma, F. K. (Recipient), 1 Mar 2002
Prize / Grant: Prize › Academic
Boersma, F. K. (Recipient), 1 Dec 2017
Prize / Grant: Prize › Academic