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Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv is Professor in Security Studies at the University of Tromsø- The Arctic University of Norway, and Arctic 5 Chair in Security Studies (arcticfive.org). Hoogensen Gjørv’s research examines the interactions and tensions between perceptions of state and human security in a variety of contexts, with a particular focus on hybrid threats and warfare, civil-military interaction (out of area operations, as well as Norwegian total defence), and Arctic perceptions of security. She is concerned with representations and performances of the civilian role in war, otherwise known as civilian agency, drawing upon intersectional approaches (employing indicators of gender, race, class, orientation, etc) to better understand agency, “everyday” security. She currently leads the project Resilient Civilians examining civilian agency in population-centric and hybrid warfare scenarios (funded by the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme), is a core theme leader on “Resilient Civilians” for the EU-HYBNET project, a European network of researchers and practitioners focused on the mitigation of hybrid threats, as well as a partner with the THREAT DEFUSER project examining the ways in which language is manipulated for the purposes of disinformation. She most recently won 1,2 million euro for the FAKENEWS project using intersectional approaches to examine trajectories of trust and resilience in a defence context. Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv leads The Grey Zone research group at UiT: : https://uit.no/research/thegreyzone.

Her book publications include "Understanding Civil-Military Interaction: Lessons Learned from the Norwegian Model" (Ashgate, 2014) and (co-editor and contributor) "Environmental and Human Security in the Arctic" (Routledge, 2014), (lead-editor and contributor) of “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 Review of International Studies, Security Dialogue, Political Psychology, International Studies Review, among other journals, as well as written numerous book chapters.