Sindre Aske Høyland, Research Professor at NORCE Health & Society, holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and IT and a master’s degree and PhD in Risk Management and Societal Safety from the University of Stavanger (UiS). Høyland's PhD research explored the significance of system and knowledge conditions in how safe work practices are created and maintained in surgical operations. His later postdoctoral project applied a holistic systemic perspective to map and understand the range of ways national, regional, and local actors in Norway understand and practice societal safety, including digital vulnerabilities.
Høyland subsequently led the Research Council of Norway (RCN)-funded TELE-AMBUS project (2021–2025), which explored system conditions that hinder or facilitate the implementation of new service innovations across municipalities and hospitals, including digital constraints and vulnerabilities. Høyland currently leads the Norwegian part of the Horizon Europe project AWARENESS (2023-), which focuses on developing digital tools and human competencies and capacities that, in combination, contribute to strengthening municipal resilience in the face of floods threatening infrastructure, life, and health.
Høyland’s theoretical and methodological focus has been on conceptualizing, exploring, and modelling how a range of system conditions and contextual factors influence safety and work practices at the “sharp end” of organizations across industries and sectors. This includes areas ranging from work practices and safety in operating rooms to the organization and practice of societal safety, energy transitions, and interventions in the healthcare sector. Høyland has served as project manager and work package leader for a number of EU, NFR, and RFF projects.
Høyland’s areas of expertise include risk management, societal safety and security, quality and safety in healthcare services, safe work practices, digitalization, systems modelling, systematic literature reviews, and systematic electronic content analysis, qualitative methods.
Professional profiles:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sindre-Hoyland
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sindre-aske-h%C3%B8yland-4b59016a/
