Jan Hovden
Background and activities
Jan Hovden, born 1943 Professor in safety management at Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management since 1986, full time since 1991.
Jan Hovden, b. 1943, Sør-Fron, Norway
Professor in safety management, NTNU (full time since 1991), at the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management
Academic background
- Graduated in political science at the University of Oslo, 1968. (Magistergrad)
- Advanced courses in social science methods and applied statistics at the University of Cologne (1972) and at the University of Essex (1969).
- The SINTEF school in research project management (1985)
Previous positions
2005-2008 senior research adviser (part-time) for the Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB)
1997-2000 Adjunct professor at the Haugesund/Stord University College
2000-2003 Adjunct professor at Stavanger University College
1996-1997 Visiting professor at Delft Technical University (TU Delft)
1986-1991 Adjunct professor in safety management at NTH
1984-1985 Visiting researcher at the Royal University of Technology (KTH), Stockholm,
1979-1991 Senior research scientist within safety research at SINTEF
1973-1978 Assistant professor at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH)
1969-1973 Adviser in social science data analysis, Institute for social research, Oslo
Assignments (a selection)
- Member of the editorial board of the journal “Safety Science”, Elsevier, 1994 -
- Participation in a research project for the Council of Europe on major hazards management, 1995-97
- Member of the project group on Co-operative Nordic Risk Research (1998-1999)
- Head of the annual conference “Sikkerhetsdagene” at NTNU for more than 20 years (www.sikkerhetsdagene.no) , and for the international conference “WorkingOnSafety” 2010 (www.wos2010.no).
- Member of the Government’s commission on the vulnerability and emergency preparedness of Norwegian society, 1999-2000 “The Willoch committee” – the white paper NOU 2000:24 “Det sårbare samfunn”.
- Appointed team member for studying “decision-making under uncertainty” at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letter, Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo (2000-2001)
- Contributions to initiating and establishing a number of national research programmes: Committee for Risk Research, NTNF (1978-84), AURA “Analysis of occ. accidents” (1984-88), IK-EVA “Evaluation of the internal control reform” (1990-1994), Risk and uncertainty (1999-2002) which gave a basis for HMS-petroleum, RISIT, IKT-SOS , and finally head of a committee of inquiry for establishing a new research programme on Societal Safety and Risk Research (SAMRISK) (2005), and later member of the SAMRISK programme committee, 2007- 2011).
- Member of an advisory board for risk and vulnerability analysis in NATO (2007-2009)
- Dissertation supervisor for 12 PhD students, and opponent in numerous PhD disputations in Norway and abroad.
- In commissions for assessing numerous professorships in Norway and abroad.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2011) Multilevel learning from accidents – Case studies in transport. Safety Science. vol. 49 (1).
- (2010) Reverse invention: An inductive bottom-up strategy for safety rule development: A case study of safety rule modifications in the Norwegian railway system. Safety Science. vol. 48 (3).
- (2010) Improving information security awareness and behaviour through dialogue, participation and collective reflection. An intervention study. Computers & security. vol. 29 (4).
- (2010) Is there a need for new theories, models and approaches to occupational accident prevention?. Safety Science. vol. 48 (8).
- (2009) The information security digital divide between information security managers and users. Computers & security. vol. 28 (6).
- (2008) The safety representative under pressure. A study of occupational health and safety management in the Norwegian oil and gas industry. Safety Science. vol. 46 (3).
- (2008) Implementation and effectiveness of organizational information security measures. Information Management & Computer Security. vol. 16 (4).
- (2008) Implementation and effectiveness of organizational security measures. Information Management & Computer Security. vol. 16 (4).
- (2008) The safety representative under pressure. A study of occupational health and safety management in the Norwegian oil and gas industry. Safety Science. vol. 46 (3).
- (2007) Societal Safety: Concept, Borders and Dilemmas. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. vol. 15 (2).
- (2007) Societal Safety: Concept, Borders and Dilemmas. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. vol. 15 (2).
- (2004) Public policy and administration in a vulnerable society: regulatory reforms initiated by a Norwegian commission. Journal of Risk Research. vol. 7 (6).
- (2003) The influence of health and safety at work on safety at home and leisure time. Safety Science. vol. 41 (9).
- (2003) Safety diagnosis criteria - development and testing. Safety Science. vol. 41.
- (1998) The ambiguity of contents and results in the Norwegian internal control of safety, health and environment reform. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. vol. 60.
- (1997) The safety element method : a user developed tool for improvement of safety management. Safety Science Monitor. vol. 1 (3).
- (1997) Grunnleggende spørsmål om risiko, liv og død. Aktuell sikkerhet : Norges største sikkerhetsmagasin.
- (1997) Menneske-maskin og organisasjons-teknologi. Aktuell sikkerhet : Norges største sikkerhetsmagasin.
Books
- (2018) Sikkerhet i arbeidslivet. Fagbokforlaget. 2018. ISBN 9788245025156.
- (2004) En antologi om framtidens säkerhetsfrågor. Kapittel 2: "Hvordan ivareta sikkerheten ved organisasjonsendringer og bemanningsreduksjoner?". 2004. ISBN 91-7253-213-0.