Bibliographical note

Guðný Björk Eydal, PhD and licenced social worker, is a professor on the Faculty of Social Work, University of Iceland. Guðný has served as Head of the Department of Sociology and the Faculty of Social Work. Her main research field is social policy, with emphasis on family and care policies in Iceland and the Nordic countries. She is directing the project Nordic Welfare Watch in Response to Crisis and a long-term research project on the outcome of the paid parental leave legislation in Iceland with Professor Ingólfur V. Gíslason. Among her recent publications is the book Fatherhood in the Nordic Welfare States—Comparing Policies and Practice, which she edited with Professor Tine Rostgaard.

Carin Björngren Cuadra is MsocSc, PhD and an associate professor of social work at Malmö University. Her main interests in the distribution of security and welfare, precarity, risk and vulnerability in the context of sustainable development underpin her research on social services in crisis preparedness. In that context, she has studied the responses of human services to diversity, with a special interest in irregular migrants. Her recent international publication is “Public Social Services’ encounters with irregular migrants in Sweden: on reframing of recognisability” (2015) in the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies (13,302-320).

Rasmus Dahlberg has a background in History and holds an MA from the University of Southern Denmark. PhD Fellow at the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research and the Danish Emergency Management Agency 2013-2016. He is currently a research assistant at the Faculty of Law at Copenhagen University while finishing his PhD. He is the author of several books about Danish disaster history and emergency management and co-editor of Disaster Research: Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives (Routledge 2015).

Bjørn Hvinden, professor and Institute Director, NOVA, Oslo and Akershus University College. He has an M.A. (1977) and PhD (1992), both in sociology. Currently, he is directing an EU Horizon 2020 project on young people's agency related to job insecurity in nine European countries (NEGOTIATE, 2015-2018) and the project Sustainable European Welfare Societies on the relations between climate change and social welfare (2014-2018, Research Council of Norway). His publications include Koch, Gullberg, Schøyen & Hvinden (2016) “Sustainable Welfare in the EU: Promoting synergies between climate and social policies”, in Critical Social Policy (36, 4, 704-715).

Ingibjörg Lilja Ómarsdóttir is Project Manager at the Social Science Research Institute and a PhD student at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Iceland (UoI). Her educational background is in Sociology with an emphasis on employment, gender and the welfare system. She has a BA in Sociology from UoI and an MA in Work Science from the University of Gothenburg. Prior to her PhD studies, she managed research and service projects in the field of social sciences as well as interdisciplinary research at the Social Science Research Institute, University of Iceland.

Merja Rapeli is Ministerial Adviser, Preparedness Secretary, at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health in Finland. She seconded part time to the Finnish Security Committee’s Secretariat. She has an M.Soc.Sc, (1990 Sociology), is a licensed Social Worker (1994), Lic.Soc.Sc. (2015 Social Work) and doctoral student at the University of Jyväskylä. She previously worked within local social and health care services in various positions and in the Finnish Red Cross on preparedness issues.

Tapio Salonen is a Professor of Social Work at Malmö University. His main research interests include poverty, marginality, participatory strategies and social policy. He has led a number of externally funded research projects on both the national and international levels, and public inquiries, commissions and government committees have repeatedly appointed him as an expert.