Rógvi Olavson

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Olavson, R. (2025). “Mind the Human! Between Infrastructure and Understanding.” Policy Paper funded by FASDiNA. ThinkTank for Digital Infrastructure, Copenhagen.

Ackrén, M., Hokkala N., Lægreid P., Palmujoki E., Trengereid A., Bernhardsdóttir Á. E., Koraeus, M., Olavson, R., Thorhallsson, B. & Vrangbæk, K. (forthcoming). “The effect of size and the Nordic states’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Reactive or proactive?” Small States & Territories, 8(2), 389-408.

Ackrén, M., Hokkala N., Lægreid P., Palmujoki E., Trengereid A., Bernhardsdóttir Á. E., Koraeus, M., Olavson, R., Thorhallsson, B. & Vrangbæk, K. (forthcoming). “Cooperation problems and bureaucratic infighting in small states: Lack of planning and unclear rules?” Small States & Territories, 8(2), 409-422.

Ackrén, M., Hokkala N., Lægreid P., Palmujoki E., Trengereid A., Bernhardsdóttir Á. E., Koraeus, M., Olavson, R., Thorhallsson, B. & Vrangbæk, K. (forthcoming). “Small elite network and less formal governance structure: Efficient knowledge sharing and rapid policy responses?” Small States & Territories, 8(2), 423-440.

Olavson, R. (2025) “Uttanríkispolitikkur í glaskúluni: føroysk mentan og donsk formalisma á samanstoytskós.” Í R. W. Poulsen, J. C. S. Justinussen, R. Olavson, & H. í Skorini (eds.). Heimsins nalvi: Føroyskur uttanríkispolitikkur í fjórðingsøld. Fróðskapur.

Justinussen, J. C. S. & Olavson R. (2024). “The Faroese COVID-19 response: testing and soft law.” In A. V. Haug (ed.) Crisis Management, Governance and Covid 19 Pandemic Policy in the Nordic Countries. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035336531.00020

Olavson, R. (2024). “Small but Sturdy: Lessons on Robust Governance from COVID-19 in the Faroe Islands,” Small States & Territories, 4(1).

Niclasen, I. & Olavson, R. (2023), “The Media in the Faroe Islands,” Trap Faroe Islands.

Skorini, H. & Olavson, R. (2021). “Færøerne” in Jonas Ohlsson, Mark Blach-Ørsten & Ida Willig (ritstj.) Covid-19 och de nordiska nyhets-medierna. Nordicom, Gøteborg University & The Nordic Council of Ministers. https://doi.org/10.48335/9789188855473

Ravn-Højgaard, S., Jóhannsdóttir, V., Karlsson, R., Olavson, R., & í Skorini, H. (2021). Particularities of media systems in the West Nordic countries. Nordicom Review, 42(S2), 102–123. https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0020

Olavson, R. (2014). “Modernising Capernaum – A qualitative study of individualism and cosmopolitanism among Brethren in the Faroes” in Neil T.R. Dickson & Thomas J. Marinello (ritstj.) The Brethren Movement: Studies in Spirituality and Culture. Troon, UK: BAHN. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17293871

REPORTS AND OTHER RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

Olavson, R. (2023) “Hvussu stýrdu Føroyar gjøgnum Covid-19 kreppuna? Ein eftirmeting”. Prime Minister’s Office. Government of the Faroe Islands.

Prime Minister’s Office (2022) “Grønari hinumegin – tilmæli um einar burðardyggari Føroyar”.

Prime Minister’s Office (2021) Havið og framtíðin – tilmæli um burðardyggan virðisvøkstur úr havinum.

Hayfield, E.A., Olavson, R. & Patursson, L. (2016). “Part-time work in the Nordic Region – an introductory study to the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland Islands.” Nordic Council of Ministers. https://doi.org/10.6027/TN2016-518

Department of Foreign Affairs, Government of the Faroe Islands (2015) Eftirmeting – Hoyvíkssáttmálin 2006-2015.

Olavson, R. (2011) “Dreymamyndir – ein drívmegi í føroyskum politikki”. In H. Reistrup & S. í Skorini (eds.) Valið og Valdið – ein tvørskurður av løgtingsvalinum 2011. Tórshavn: Sprotin.

Olavson, R. (2009) “Førleiki í útlegd – hugburðar, samleikar og framtíðarætlanir hjá útisetum í Bretlandi”. Department of Foreign Affairs, Government of the Faroe Islands.

2023-present: Phd Candidate, Department of History and Social Science, University of the Faroe Islands.

2023-present: Chairman of the Board, Faroe Islands Broadcasting.

2021-2023: Administrative officer, Prime Minister’s Office, Government of the Faroe Islands.

2017-2023: Part-time lecturer, University of the Faroe Islands.

2020-2022: Committee Member, Media Subsidy Committee, Ministry of Culture.

2019-2021: Scientific Assistant, Department of History and Social Science, University of the Faroe Islands.

2019: Communications Officer, Faroe Islands National Bank.

2016-2019: Journalist, Faroe Islands Broadcasting.

2015-2016: Scientific Assistant, Department of History and Social Science, University of the Faroe Islands.

2014-2016: Content writer, Department of Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister’s Office, Government of the Faroe Islands

2015: External Consultant, Department of Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister’s Office, Government of the Faroe Islands.