Sarah Schiffling

I have now lived in Helsinki for one incredible year! The perfect time now to feel settled and still have so much left to discover. Work and life keep getting ever more exciting as I learn and explore.

✨ Apply for SOMA - Summer School in Humanitarian Operations 2024 ✨ 📅 When? December 9-13, 2024 📍 Where? Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 💡 Free registration - Sponsored by the Team Finland Knowledge Programme 2023! For more information: hanken.fi/en/departments…

🙌 Participate in the WORM's survey on #humanitarian #supplychain! Our partner RMIT Vietnam is collecting data on #innovative business models and #wastemanagement practices in #fieldhospitals 🏥 To complete the survey👉 forms.office.com/r/Bhcnnubijp Please share this message🙏

Welcome to Helsinki, @ReMuNetProject! Very happy to host the 2024 consortium meeting at @Hanken_fi and start off with an evening in the sauna and swimming in the sea. As our project is on transport on the North Sea - Baltic Corridor, we especially enjoyed watching the ferries!

Join us today for a fully online session at #HNPW: “Studying Humanitarian Logistics”. An opportunity for students and anyone interested in humanitarian logistics to gain insights from current and past students, professors, and field experts. Register here: vosocc.unocha.org/Report.aspx?pa…

Join us at #HNPW for a session on the WORM project. Gain insights from researchers and practitioners on current waste management practices and more. Register now: vosocc.unocha.org/Report.aspx?pa…

⚠ Helsinki's late snowfall causes major disruptions, with roads & rails severely affected. ReMuNet analyzes the root causes & impacts of such events & enhance transport planning to address reactivity & improve predictive capabilities, for a better resilience to disruptive events

Join us at #HNPW for a workshop on working in places under siege. This session includes a presentation on current research on humanitarian logistics in sieges, and a focus group discussion to share experiences and develop best practices. Register here: vosocc.unocha.org/Report.aspx?pa…

💡Health Emergency Response to a Pandemic: An Integrated Social Science Perspective #onlinecourse -> Live facilitation will start again March 18th 2024! More information can be found here: futurelearn.com/courses/health… @Hanken_fi @HERoS_EU

HumLog Board Award: Call for Nominations- hanken.fi/en/departments… rewards each year one Master’s student who has been writing the best thesis in #HumanitarianLogistics. Nominations have to be sent to humlog@hanken.fi, deadline is the 29.02.2024. #hanken

How attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels on ships in the Red Sea shows vulnerability of global supply chains. Analysis by @MissLogOps @Hanken_fi & @NikolaosVal @WeAreTUDublin rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

Disruptions at choke points potentially have much larger effects around the world, as they affect traffic going to and from many countries. Alternative routes to them are difficult, if not impossible, to find. #Echobox=1705340851" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theconversation.com/red-sea-crisis…

How Red Sea crisis shows vulnerability of global supply chains. Analysis by @MissLogOps @Hanken_fi & Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos @WeAreTUDublin rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

Wrote two articles today. Had no input regarding the title pictures. But I think I shall refer to them as the stern and bow articles. 🚢

Submitted our two @ReMuNetProject reports on European transport disruptions while sitting at an overcrowded railway station to get home for Christmas while, due to a storm, railways are experiencing serious disruptions. See deliverable 1.3 on the fragility of the rail network...

Remember when the Suez Canal was blocked by the Evergiven? Now one of the largest shipping lines in the world is stopping their vessels from taking that vital shortcut in response to recent attacks on ships. bbc.com/news/world-mid…

You don't need to like skiing to do a PhD with us! You should like logistics and supply chain management though. Get in touch before Christmas with any questions and submit your application by 3rd January 2024.

Happy Independence Day, Finland!

Are you considering a career in academia? If so, the Hanken PhD programme could be the right fit for you! Join our webinar on 14 December and learn more 👉hanken.fi/sv/calendar/ho… #HankenResearch #PhDProgramme #PhDStudies

The criticality of critical mineral supply chains in the green transition: Europe is ‘miles behind’ in race for raw materials used in electric car batteries theguardian.com/business/2023/…

Joining the ConnectChains Humanitarian Supply Chain Conference at the German Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport in Berlin today. Particularly great to hear from @IMC_Worldwide, the winners of the medal for excellence in humanitarian logistics 2023.