Heading in a new direction

For those of you who follow my blog on a regular basis, there hasn’t been a post for quite a while. That is because I am completely bogged down in work, and unfortunately it may be a while before there even is a next post. More importantly, however, is that I will be changing jobs and relocating in early 2012. I will be leaving academia and research and continue the governmental and administrative career I left 6 years ago. In February 2012 I will start working with Southern Region office of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Statens vegvesen Region sør), located in Arendal in Southern Norway.

A goodbye to supply chain risk?

Having said the above, I will not leave supply chain risk or this blog behind. My job title is senior adviser in civil protection and emergency planning, and much of my work will be centred around risk analyses and vulnerability assessments related to road infrastructure. The official title of the position of the title is adviser in societal security and emergency planning, or in other words: how road infrastructure can contribute to societal security. The focus of this blog is thus likely to switch in the direction of supply chains on roads, and the risks related to road transport, which – after all – is my where personal research interest in supply chain risk  is rooted, considering what I wrote about transport vulnerability as early as 2002.

More practical?

If anything, this blog is likely to become more hand-on and practitioner-oriented, based on what I learn and experience in my new job. That’s what I hope, at least. There willl still be plenty of academic papers to be found, as I have a mile high stack of  not yet reviewed journal articles on my desk that I am going to take with me to my new place.

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