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Lina M. Eriksson is a Researcher at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Uppsala University. She leads a major research project on resilience and civil defense funded by the Swedish Research Council (5 million SEK, 2022-2026). Previously, she has been affiliated with the Centre for Natural Disaster Studies since 2011, served as a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford's Europe Center, and conducted research at Stockholm University, Gothenburg University, and Karlstad University.
Her educational background includes a PhD from Uppsala University in 2017. Her research focuses on:
- Crisis management of natural disasters
- Natural risks and accountability
- Swedish party politics
- Selection of politicians and lay judges
- Elections
- Political, social and economic integration of disaster survivors
- Resilience to traumatic events
Eriksson's recent publications demonstrate a consistent focus on how natural disasters and crises impact political behavior, electoral outcomes, and institutional trust. Her work combines quantitative analysis of large datasets with theoretical frameworks from political science to understand the complex relationship between disasters and politics. She has made significant contributions to understanding voter blame attribution following natural disasters, judicial selection processes, and party gatekeeping mechanisms.
Her current major project "Living as a Survivor" examines the political, social and economic integration of tsunami survivors, analyzing how traumatic experiences affect individual resilience. This research combines anonymized register data on approximately 16,030 Swedish tsunami survivors and 530 relatives of victims with survey data to study short- and long-term effects across social, health, economic and political dimensions.
Eriksson has received recognition for her work through citations in Wikipedia, policy sources, and news outlets as indicated by the metrics accompanying her publications.
As an educator, Eriksson has taught courses at all university levels, from first-year to master's programs, in political science, crisis management, natural hazards, international relations, and research methods. She has supervised and examined over 100 bachelor's and master's theses.
Her work has practical implications for civil defense policy and crisis preparedness, aiming to develop societal measures that increase well-being after trauma and grief. She collaborates with researchers including Kalle Ekholm and Kåre Vernby on her current project.
