Team Member

Dr. Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv
NAADSN Coordinator
Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv is a professor of security and geopolitics (within critical peace and conflict studies) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She also continues in her role as the Arctic Six Chair in Security Studies (arcticfive.org, 2022). Hoogensen Gjørv’s research explores tensions between perceptions of state security and human/individual security in various contexts, with a focus on hybrid threats and warfare, civil-military cooperation (particularly Norway’s Total Defence concept), and Arctic security. She is concerned with the representations and execution of the civilian role in war and seeks to better understand “everyday” security. She leads several projects that examine the role of civilians in complex threats/warfare. Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv leads The Grey Zone research group at UiT: https://uit.no/research/thegreyzone.
Her recent book publications include (as lead editor and contributor) the Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security (Routledge, 2020), and co-author of Positive Security: Collective Life in an Uncertain World(Routledge, 2022). She has published in journals such as Review of International Studies, Security Dialogue, Political Psychology, and International Studies Review, among others, as well as authored numerous book chapters, including co-authoring “The Role of Civilians in Hybrid Warfare” in Totalforsvaret i praksis (Total Defence in Practice) (Gyldendal 2022), as well as has provided book, chapter and policy reports for both NATO Stratcom and Hybrid CoE on hybrid threat activities and information influence operations in the Arctic.
UiT profile page: https://uit.no/ansatte/gunhild.hoogensen.gjorv