Centre for Risk and Insurance Research (ROFF)

The objectives of the centre

• The centre aims at initiating, co-ordinating and strengthening national and Nordic research within the fields of risk and insurance.
• There is a deliberate emphasis on interdisciplinary work among single disciplines which are potentially relevant to insurance.
• The centre aims at becoming a meeting place between theory and practice, research as well as research-based teaching. 
• The overall purpose is to develop knowledge about and a critical understanding of risk and insurance, as a basis for international publication, national teaching and leadership development.

Activities

• Theoretical and empirical studies related to risk and insurance
• Workshops about topics of joint interest.  

research, R&D - in progress, COMPLETED, planned:

• Pension insurance literacy
• Attitudes towards risk and responsibility among car insurance customers
• Corporate social strategy, examining an insurance company
• Insurance professionals' demand for continued education 
• Insurance advertising
• Insurance customer ethics, insurance marketing ethics, insurance broker ethics
• Extra-large size socetal risks and their insurability/uninsurability
• Insurance Law, Legal risk manement
• Micro-insurance and risk management, actuarial and ethical perspectives
• Latent variables/ structural equation models in non-life insurance
• Health, safety and environment (HSE) legislation in a combined risk, legal, and business ethical perspective
• Social science theory-building about risk society and its potential relevance to the insurance industry