I am professor in Faculty of Social Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. My interest in research and teaching is in crisis management, disaster studies, and societal resilience. I am the founder of the Crisis Resilience Academy of the Amsterdam Institute for Societal Resilience. My projects include NWO project “Smart Disaster Governance”; EU Horizon project “LINKS: Strengthening links between technologies and society for disaster resilience”, EU COVID-19 project “HERoS: Health Emergency Response in Interconnected Systems” and EU Horizon project “SYNERGIES: Enhancing citizen preparedness in the event of a disaster or crisis-related event”.

I am affiliated to the Disaster Management Training and Education Centre for Africa (DiMTEC) of the University of the Free State in South Africa. In my research I adopt transdisciplinary approach as I work together with practitioners, citizens initiatives and grassroot movements in all phases of the disaster management cycle (response, mitigation, recovery, prevention and preparedness). I did research and taught on these topics in different parts of the world including Nepal, the Philippines, China and Japan, Malawi and South Africa, the USA and in various countries across Europe. Website: https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/fk-boersma

Boersma, F.K., J. Ferguson, P. Groenewegen and J.J. Wolbers (2021). The dynamics of power in disaster response networks, Risk, Hazards & Crisis, in Public Policy, accepted for publication.

Boersma, F.K. and R. Larruina (2021). Restoring the medical supply chain from below. The role of social entrepreneurship in the production of Face Masks during the COVID-19 crisis. ISCRAM Conference proceedings.

Boersma, K., Martelli, C., Bruinen de Bruin, Y., Vetere Arellano, A.L., Claassen, L., Pickl, S. (2020). ‘Communicating risk among all’, in: Casajus Valles, A., Marin Ferrer, M., Poljanšek, K., Clark, I. (eds.), Science for Disaster Risk Management 2020: acting today, protecting tomorrow, EUR 30183 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, JRC114026: 527-531.

Boersma, F.K. and J.J. Wolbers (2021). ‘Institutional design for transboundary Crisis Management’, Oxford: Oxford Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis, Oxford University Press.

Van Esch, S., M. van den Homberg, F.K. Boersma (2021). Looking Beyond the Data: an Assessment of the Emerging Data Ecosystem of Nepal’s Flood Early Warning Systems. ISCRAM Conference proceedings.

Wolbers, J.J., F.K. Boersma, P. Groenewegen, M. Scott Poole (2021). ‘Mitigating the Collapse of Sensemaking.’ The Role of Temporality and Coordination in Extreme Contexts, EGOS Colloquium Amsterdam.

Zuiderwijk, D., F.K. Boersma, P. Groenewegen (2021). ‘Governing complexity in complex temporary organizations Sub-theme 46: Multi-level Approaches to Temporary Inter-organizing’. Multi-level Approaches to Temporary Inter-organizing. EGOS Colloquium Amsterdam.

Bierens, S., F.K. Boersma and M. van den Homberg (2020). The Legitimacy, Accountability, and Ownership of an Impact-Based Forecasting Model in Disaster Governance. Politics and Governance, 8(4): 445-455.

Boersma, F.K. et al. (2020). Recommendations for governance and policies in the n-COV-2019 response. Deliverable 1.1 of the EU H2020-SC1-PHE-CORONA-VIRUS-2020 Grant: HERoS: Health Emergency Response in Interconnected Systems.

Hilhorst, D., F.K. Boersma and E. Raju (2020). Research on Politics of Disaster Risk Governance: Where Are We Headed? Politics and Governance, 8(4): 214-219.

Van den Ende, L., R. van Steden and F.K. Boersma (2020). Fuel to the fire? The sensemaking of volunteer firefighters and public managers in the context of public reform, Journal of Organizational Change Management, 33(2): 229-252.

Boersma, F.K., J. Ferguson, P. Groenewegen, F. Mulder, A. Schmidt and J.J. Wolbers (2019). ‘Platform Governance of Self-Organized Initiatives in Response to Disasters’, in: Koppenjan, J., P.M. Karré and K. Termeer (Eds.). Smart Hybridity. Potentials and Challenges of New Governance Arrangements. Boom, pp. 29-40.

Boersma, F.K., A. Kraiukhina, R. Larruina, Z. Lehota and O. Nury (2019). A port in a storm: Spontaneous volunteering and grassroots movements in Amsterdam. A resilient approach to the (European) refugee crisis. Social Policy and Administration, 53(5)728-742.

Hendriks, T. and F.K. Boersma (2019). Bringing the State back in to Humanitarian Crises Response: Disaster Governance and Challenging Collaborations in the 2015 Malawi Flood Response, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 40: 101262.

Larruina, R., F.K. Boersma and E. Ponzoni (2019). Responding to the Dutch Refugee Crisis: Implications for Collaborative Work Between Civil Society and Governmental Organizations, Social Inclusion, 7(2): 53-63.

Radianti, J., I. Dokas, F.K. Boersma, N. Saad Noori, N. Belbachir and S. Stieglitz (2019). Enhancing Disaster Response for Hazardous Materials Using Emerging Technologies: The Role of AI and a Research Agenda.Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, 368-376.

Treurniet, W., F.K. Boersma, P. Groenewegen (2019). Configuring emergency response networks. International Journal of Emergency Management, 15(4): 316-333.

Van Trijp, J., F.K. Boersma and P. Groenewegen (2019). Organizational Resilience and the Relationship with Six Major Crisis Types for Dutch Safety Regions. Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 10(3): 360-381.