Jeroen Wolbers
Educational Director/Associate Professor
- Name
- Dr. J.J. Wolbers
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9500
- j.j.wolbers@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3296-4130
Jeroen Wolbers is Assistant Professor of Crisis Governance at the Institute for Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University. His position is affiliated to the Crisis Research Center (CRC), which was founded in 1989, and is one of the oldest crisis researcher centers in Europe. His expertise lies in fast-response organising on the topics of coordination, sensemaking, and decision-making, with a special focus on crisis management. His work is published in leading organization and crisis management journals. In his PhD thesis Jeroen studied coordination processes between emergency services on disaster sites. His thesis was selected for the top 3 dissertations worldwide in management science with the Grigor McClelland Award 2017, and he was awarded with the VU Faculty of Social Science Dissertation Award. Previously Jeroen was a postdoctoral researcher in the NWO project on Smart Disaster Governance at the VU University, where he performed fieldwork during the response to the Nepal Earthquakes in 2015, the refugee crisis in Europe, and multiple disaster exercises throughout the Netherlands.
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26 Research and Education Grants in 2020 for the Institute of Security and Global Affairs -
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Veni subsidies for sixteen Leiden researchers
Research Output
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Assist or accuse? Identifying trends in crisis communication through a bibliometric literature review -
A renewed awareness: Reinvigorating preparedness research for crisis and disastermanagement -
A bibliometric review of COVID-19 research in the crisis and disaster literature -
Organizational and Institutional Crisis Management
Educational Director/Associate Professor
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Institute of Security and Global Affairs
- Wolbers J.J. (2024), Unified command? Preliminary findings from a situation awareness experiment. Proceedings of the 21st ISCRAM Conference 25 April 2025 - 29 May 2024.
- Luesink M., Wolbers J.J., Duin M. van & Kuipers S. (2024), Scenario planning to enable foresight in crisis management. Berthold Penkert, Bernd Hellingrath, Adam Widera, Hauke Speth, Michael Middelhoff, Kees Boersma & Matthias Kalthöner (Eds.). Proceedings of the 21st ISCRAM Conference 25 April 2025 - 29 May 2024.
- Luesink M.B.A., Wolbers J.J., Duin M. van & Kuipers S.L. (2024), Scenario planning to enable foresight in crisis management . Proceedings of the 21st ISCRAM Conference 25 April 2025 - 29 May 2024.
- Boin R.A., Kuipers S.L. & Wolbers J.J. (2024), The Politics of Crisis management in the Netherlands. In: De Lange S., Louwerse T. 't Hart P. & Van Ham C. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics: Oxford University Press. 590-606.
- Kuipers S, Perlstein S., Wolbers J. & Jong W. (2023), Assist or accuse?: Identifying trends in crisis communication through a bibliometric literature review, Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy 14(4): 272-296.
- Wolbers J & Kuipers S. (2023), A renewed awareness: reinvigorating preparedness research for crisis and disaster management, Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy 14(3): 184-187.
- van der Varst L., Broeders S., Boersma F.K. & Wolbers J. (2023), Het Rode Kruis in toekomstige crises. Arnhem: Nederlands Instituut Publieke Veiligheid .
- Wolbers J., Treurniet W. & Boersma F.K. (2023), A Decade of Netcentric Crisis Management: Challenges and Future Development. In: Scholl H.J., Holdeman E.E. & Boersma F.K. (Eds.), Disaster Management and Information Technology: Professional Response and Recovery Management in the Age of Disasters: Springer Link.
- Kuipers S.L., Wilt A.M. van der & Wolbers J.J. (2022), Pandemic Publishing: a bibliometric review of COVID‐19 research in the crisis and disaster literature, Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy : .
- Kuipers S & Wolbers J (2021), Organizational and institutional crisis management. In: , Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics .
- Wolbers J.J. (2021), Understanding distributed sensemaking in crisis management: the case of the Utrecht terrorist attack, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management : 1-11.
- Boersma F.K. & Wolbers J.J. (2021), Foundations of responsive crisis management: institutional design and information, Politics : 1-25.
- Boersma F.K., Ferguson J., Groenewegen P. & Wolbers J.J. (2021), The dynamics of power in disaster response networks, Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy : 1-16.
- Wolbers J. (2021), Understanding distributed sensemaking in crisis management: The case of the Utrecht terrorist attack, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management : 1-11.
- Wolbers J.J., Kuipers S.L. & Boin R.A. (2021), A systematic review of 20 years of crisis and disaster research: trends and progress, Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy : 1-19.
- Wolbers J.J., Kuipers S.L. & Boin R.A. (2021), A systematic review of 20 years of crisis and disaster research: trends and progress, Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy 12(4): 1-19.
- Treurniet W. & Wolbers J. (2020), Codifying a crisis: progressing from information sharing to distributed decision‐making, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 29(1): 23-35.
- Wolbers J.J. (2020), Crisismanagement na de tramaanslag in Utrecht, Cahiers Politiestudies 57(4): 127-160.
- Pauw E. de, Defré D. & Wolbers J. (Eds.) (2020), Politie in Crisissituaties. Cahiers Politiestudies. Oud-Turnhout: Gompel&Svacina.
- Wolbers J. (2020), In sturing blijven in dynamische operaties: Het deficit van ‘command & control’?, Cahiers Politiestudies 57(4): 161-168.
- Wolbers J. (2019), To the edge and beyond: How fast-response organizations adapt in rapidly changing crisis situations [When duty calls: confronting fragmentation in crisis management] (translation: Schakel J.K. & Wolbers J.), Human Relations : 1-32.
- Boersma K., Ferguson J., Groenewegen P., Mulder F., Schmidt A.J. & Wolbers J. (2019), Platform Governance of Self-Organized Initiatives in Response to Disasters. In: Koppejan J., Karre P.M. & Terrier K. (Eds.), Smart Hybridity. Potentials and Challenges of New Governance Arrangements. The Hague: Eleven International Publishers. 31-42.
- Wolbers J.J. & Boersma F.K. (2019), Key Challenges in Crisis Management. In: Gephart R., Miller C. & Helgesson K. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Risk, Crisis and Emergency Management: Routledge.
- Boersma F.K., Diks D., Ferguson J. & Wolbers J. (2019), From reactive to proactive use of social media in emergency response: A critical discussion of the Twitcident Project. In: Silvius G. (Ed.), Emergency and Disaster Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. 236-252.
- Wolbers J.J., Boersma F.K. & Groenewegen P. (2018), Introducing a fragmentation perspective on coordination in crisis management, Organization Studies 39(11): 1521-1546.
- Schmidt A., Wolbers J., Ferguson J. & Boersma K. (2018), Are you Ready2Help? Conceptualizing the management of online and onsite volunteer convergence, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 26(3): 338-349.
- Boersma F.K., Ferguson J., Groenewegen P., Mulder F., Schmidt A. & Wolbers J. (2018), Platformsturing van zelforganisatie tijdens rampen, Bestuurskunde 27(2): 14-21.
- Boersma F.K., Comfort L.K., Groenendaal J. & Wolbers J.J. (2014), Incident command systems: A dynamic tension among goals, rules and practice, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 22(1): 1-4.
- Wolbers J.J. & Boersma F.K. (2013), The common operational picture as collective sensemaking, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 21(4): 186-199.
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