Decision-making, Emotion, Motivation, Experienced Safety, Extreme sport, Human Factor
Audun Hetland is associate professor at CARE. He holds a PhD in psychology and his main research interest are: motivation, emotions, experienced safety and how this impact decision making.
He has been studying extreme sport athletes like BASE jumpers, skydivers, mountain bikers and downhill skiers. Audun is also member of the UiT board and coordinator in CARE.
Andrea Mannberg is a professor in economics at the School of Business and Economics at UiT the Arctic University of Norway. Mannberg is principal investigator of the 4 year research project – The risks we take and the life we make – effects of positional preferences and bounded rationality on risk-taking behavior – funded by the Norwegian Research Council. The project is cross-disciplinary collaboration with researchers at CARE, e.g., Audun Hetland, Markus Landrø and Rune Engeset, and with international partners: Professor Jordy Hendrikx and Professor Jerry D. Johnson at Snow and Avalanche Lab, Montana State University, and professor Tomas Sjögren at School of Business and Economics, Umeå University. The project has three work packages (WP:s). WP 1 focuses on how social identification and the desire to gain social status is related to willingness to take risks, and WP 2 focuses on how incidental emotions affect the ability to evaluate risk and the tendency to engage in risk-taking behavior. The final work package, WP 3, aims to evaluate how trends in avalanche hazard affects perceived danger and behavior in avalanche terrain.
Philosophical Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology
Radiopharmacueticals, artificial intelligence, radiography, CT, MR, clinical radiology, pedagogic perspectives in teaching, PET/SPECT, radiopharmacy
Sociology of sport
History of sport
Doping & anti-doping policy
Elite sport
Nature sport, friluftsliv, nature-related outdoor activities & practices
Theories & qualitative methods from the social & cultural sciences
• Education, Experience and Learning in Sports and Outdoor Life.
• Guide Education.
• Outdoor Activities and Health.
• Human Factors in Avalanche Terrain.
• Risk and safety in a commercial context.
IFMGA – Mountain guide that settled in the high Arctic islands of Svalbard. Got access to the noble world of university education by taking part in developing and establishing the Arctic Nature Guide study program in Svalbard. Has a master degree in psychology from NTNU. The research and development work done so far in related to nature-based tourism, the guide role, learning and experiences in nature and risk, and safety in a commercial context.
decision making, sense making, extended aspects of risk assessment, pedagogics and tranformative learning, ethics, moral philosophy, applied ethics, RRI, RI,ELSA, ELSI, responsible research and innovation, sustainability, sustainable development, sustainable development goals
Geographer (UiB)
Work:
1992 Outdoor life educator/instructor at (Øytun) Alta folkehogskole
1998 – 2016 Ski- and Avalanche instructor full year course – Off piste
2001 – Ski- and Avalanche instructor full season course – Ski og skred
2001 – Five annual Domestic and International Ski og avalanche Workshops
2002 – Contributed within Ski & Avalanche conferences Domestic and Internationally
2002 – Avalanche Course and Consultant for regional contractors
2011 – Contributed to the Norwegian Avalanche Warning Service
2012 – Avalanche consultant for the Norwegian Road Authorities
2013 – Avalanche Courses for snow mobilers regional level
Current research at CARE:
2014 The Art of skiing indisciplined during Level 2 conditions (ISSW 2014)
– Development of a new approach within avalanche terrain during deep persistent week layer situations
2016 – Observing Ski Touring and Decision making in the Alps. What ordinary people do or Not Do and Why? (ISSW 2016)
The project wants to observe what people really do contributing to new theory on behaviour and decision-making. Observing how people ski tour might give new insights we have missed and that locals can’t see within their habits and tradition. Field work will continue within the European Alps and US Rockies.
