Carina Leffler
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How do we build strong civil preparedness when responsibility is distributed across many different actors?
My research explores how municipalities, national authorities and other actors learn and develop collective capability together. I am particularly interested in the role of municipalities and how leadership, organizational practices and digital infrastructure can create better conditions for collaboration and learning across organizational boundaries.
The starting point is that civil preparedness is not built through plans, structures and formal responsibilities alone. Capability also develops in practice – when people share information, interpret situations, solve problems and learn together.
My research therefore explores the municipality as a potential pedagogical catalyst: an actor that not only carries out its own responsibilities, but also helps create the conditions for learning, coordination and collective operational capability across a wider societal system.
The research is conducted as a longitudinal case study of municipal work related to civil preparedness and continuity management. Through interviews, document studies and observations, I follow how learning and collective capability develop in practice.
The ambition is to contribute knowledge about how we can strengthen our collective capacity to address complex societal challenges – when no single organization has the complete picture or can solve the task on its own.