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Audra Diers-Lawson

    • Professor
  • Department of Communication
  • Fakultet for ledelse og økonomi
Audra.Diers-Lawson@kristiania.no
+47 412 13 467

Background

Audra Diers-Lawson (PhD, 2006 University of Texas-Austin) is a Professor of Risk and Crisis Communication, the Head of the WHO-Europe Collaboration Center for Risk Communication, Community Engagement, and Infodemic Management (RCCE-IM) in health emergencies housed at Kristiania University of Applied Technology. It is the first WHO collaboration center for RCCE-IM in the world.

She also leads the Societal Security Research Center and Network. The SSRC is a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research consortium aiming to support risk and crisis preparedness response globally through expertise, research, and training.

With teaching and research experience in five countries, experience serving as a journal editor and reviewer, and holding leadership positions with the ECREA and ICRCA, Diers-Lawson is a global leader in risk and crisis communication. Her research focuses on connections between risk, crisis, stakeholders and organizations.

Diers-Lawson is passionate about bridging academic and practitioner communities to translate research to practice. She regularly participates as a keynote speaker and training events online and face-to-face with communication experts and policy makers from across different industries. For example, she has traveled to Italy, the Western Balkans, and Asia to participate in such events with different organizations and served as the content expert in risk communication at a joint evaluation exercise in Kosovo.

Finally, she collaborates to advice and produce research affecting policy and practice with institutions like the Asia-Europe Foundation, EU, and WHO-Europe.

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