Lefsrud, Lianne Michelle

Publications, Activities, and Awards

• Clean and Renewable Energy - Taking a Systems Approach to Geothermal Energy
• Inter- professional relations and categorization in accounting regulation: The case of Modernizing Oil and Gas Reserve Reporting
• Maintaining Oil and Gas Reserves Accounting: The Limits of Commensuration
• Our journey with creative sentencing.
• Role of AI in Humanities and Ethics
• Safety Moment
• The Messenger Matters — Finding The Right Advocate To Tell The Energy Sector’s Story
• 2022 Process Safety Management Award, Canadian Society of Chemical Engineers (CSChE) and Canadian Institute of Chemistry (CIC)
• A Behavioural Approach To Success Indicators
• A Century of Accomplishments— Dr. Lianne Lefsrud, P.Eng. Profiled for APEGA’s Centennial
• A Pattern-Oriented Approach to Safety Climate: An Empirical Example.
• A rising tide raises all boats: Regional promotion of process safety through joint government/industry management
• A Theoretical Framework for Data-driven Artificial Intelligence Decision Making for Enhancing the Asset Integrity Management System in the Oil & Gas Sector
• Advanced technologies to depolarize energy dialogues
• AI4Buzz.ca - A Toolkit For Analyzing Online Conversations for Solutions Based Policy Development
• Alberta’s ‘energy war room’: Reframing the energy debate or attempt to mimic legitimate journalism
• Allford: Tips on talking about energy in Canada, Jennifer Allford,
• Analysis of Induced Seismicity at Pohang Geothermal Power Plant and Examination of Public Perception following the Incident-A Perspective
• Analyzing and Visualizing the Canadian Research Landscape
• Analyzing and Visualizing Twitter Conversations
• Application of Bayesian Network and Artificial Intelligence in Reducing Accident/Incident Rates in Oil & Gas Companies
• Behavioral Success Indicators (BSI): A Review And Application
• Best Symposium Award Runner-up, Science denial: causes, courses, and remedies. A route map for organizational scholars, 2021 Organizations and Management Theory Division, Academy of Management Meeting. PIs: Elena Bruni (WU Vienna, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wi
• Bibliometric Analysis of Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC) of Engineering Systems
• Bruni, E.* & Lefsrud, L.M. 2021. Science denial: causes, courses, and remedies. A route map for organizational scholars, Academy of Management Conference, July 31 – August 3, 2021.
• Can Farmers be Climate Leaders
• Combining safety approaches to bring hazards into focus: An oil sands tailings case study.
• Communicating Risks
• Communicating risks across organizations and to contractors
• Communicating Risks to Support Sustainability Discussions: Challenges in a Post-Truth Era
• Communicating Risks To Support Sustainability Discussions: Challenges In A Post-Truth Era
• Communicating Risks to Support Sustainability Discussions: Challenges in a Post-Truth Era
• Creating a Positive Safety Culture and Continuous Improvement in Alberta’s Construction Industry
• Creative sentencing improves workplace safety: Why don’t we use it more?
• Creative Sentencing: My Experience with Companies
• Cutting-Edge Linguistic Methods
• Decision support for process operators: task loading in the days of big data
• Decolonizing Approaches to Geothermal Energy Development in Alberta through Indigenous Community-Led Research and Engagement.
• Dirty Oil or Ethical Oil? Visual rhetoric in legitimation struggles.
• Distinguished Academic Early Career Award
• Eckert, H., Lefsrud, L.M., Zhao, L. & Gehman, J. 2022 Creative Sentencing and Workplace Safety.
• Employing multifaceted teaching and learning components to foster CEAB graduate attribute development
• Energy Futures: Moving Forward by Overcoming Legacies of the Past
• Enhancing regional process safety management
• Enhancing Regulatory Effectiveness to Improve Corporate Performance
• Etchanchu, H., Cascadden, M.*, & Lefsrud, L.M. 2021. Addressing Grand Challenges in Organization Theory-System Change through Theory, Engagement & Action
• Extrapolating Human Judgments from Skip-gram Vector Representations of Word Meaning
• Final Report for Creative Sentencing: Protecting Worker Safety in Alberta by Enhancing Field Level Hazard Assessments and Training for Ground Hazards Associated with Tailings Facilities, Dams, and Systems
• Framework for Developing Risk Evaluation Criteria
• Giant toxic lakes you can see from space: A theory of multimodal messages and emotionality in legitimacy work.
• Gibson, G., Vandenberghe, J. & Lefsrud, L.M. (moderator). 2021. Engineering Community Benefit Agreements. Sustainability Council Public Lecture Series, online 13 October 2021.
• Heated Atmosphere: Organizational Emotions and Field Structuring in Online Climate Change Debates
• Hidden Hazards and Blind Spots
• How organizations create complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty to blind their risk management efforts.
• Identifying Hidden Hazards
• Indigenous Rights, the Environmental and Geothermal Energy Development in the Pacific Ring of Fire.
• Indigenous youth engaging in community-led research to decolonize renewable energy development
• Indigenous youth engaging in community-led research to decolonize renewable energy development.
• Innovation and Sustainability
• Inter-professional categorization in accounting regulation
• Interim Report for Creative Sentencing: Protecting Worker Safety in Alberta by Enhancing Field Level Hazard Assessments and Training for Ground Hazards Associated with Tailings Facilities, Dams, and Systems
• Just don’t call it climate change
• Just don’t call it climate change: Climate-skeptic farmer adoption of climate mitigative practices
• Kule Scholar, July 2022 – July 2025
• Language of Energy Conversations, Edmonton AM with Mark Connolly and Tara McCarthy, CBC radio
• Lefsrud L.M. & Sattari, F. 2021. Using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Fusion to Improve the Process Safety and Risk Management in Oil & Gas Industry. Energy Safety Canada, May 27, 2021.
• Lefsrud, L.M. & Jennings, D.J. 2022. Visualizing Systems: Visual analytics built on big data as a form of analysis and theoretical interpretation. PDW for The Collection, Analysis, Theorization and Representation of Visual Data in Qualitative Scholarship 2
• Lefsrud, L.M. 2022. Back to the drawing board: Reconstructing risk management systems through visualization
• Lefsrud, L.M. 2022. Innovating for Sustainability and Systems-Level Change, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IFM), Mannheim University, 7 November 2022.
• Lefsrud, L.M. 2022. Principles to Depolarize Energy Conversations
• Lefsrud, L.M. 2022. Safe and Responsible Resource Development: The role of the Technical Engineer as a Regulator. Panelist with Dr. Graeme Norval, Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Z767 tech committee; George Stoyanov, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
• Lefsrud, L.M. 2022. Twitter Analytics Tool. Energy and Climate – West Coast Edition, Canadian Energy and Climate Nexus, 7 April, Vancouver and Online.
• Lefsrud, L.M. 2023. Principles to Depolarize Energy Conversations. APEGA, March 8, 2023.
• Lefsrud, L.M. 2023. Principles to Depolarize Energy Conversations. Canadian Society for Senior Engineers (CSSE), January 19, 2023.
• Lefsrud, L.M. 2023. Visualizing Risk. Canadian Society of Chemical Engineers (CSChE) and Canadian Institute of Chemistry (CIC) Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CCEC 2023).
• Lefsrud, L.M., Gutierrez, C.G.*, Gehman, J., Barbosa, D., Stroulia, E. 2022. Energy to Contest? Emotional and multimodal contestation of energy markets. Sub-theme 42: Markets for Sustainability: Evolving Challenges, Imperfections, and Trade-offs
• Lefsrud, L.M., Hussain, A.*, Gholizadeh, N.*, Sattari, F.*, Musilek, P., Liang, H. 2021. Creating System Resilience in Power Generation and Delivery
• Managing Microbial Corrosion in Canadian Offshore & Onshore Oil Production Operations
• Margaret Ann Armour & WISEST – An Incredible Legacy in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in STEM and the Work Still to Do
• Most Cited Paper
• Most Read Paper
• Office of Energy Research and Development (ERD) Oil & Gas Clean Tech Program Performance Evaluation, NRCan
• Ontario Power Generation Review of Dam Safety Program, Report of the Twelfth Dam Safety Advisory Panel Meeting, Part 1.
• Ontario Power Generation Review of Dam Safety Program, Report of the Twelfth Dam Safety Advisory Panel Meeting, Part 2
• Organizational (Issue) Field Perspective on Climate Change
• Organizational emotions in online climate change debate
• Outstanding Mentorship
• Part 1 In A Series: UAlberta Academic Says Rebranding The Oil And Gas Industry Must Be Organic
• Polarizing language creating gridlock in energy debate, says U of A expert, by Geoff McMaster
• Power and protocol: Indigenous oral histories and geothermal energy development
• Preliminary Work by the Dam Integrity Advisory Committee Towards Thinking Clearly and Communicating Effectively About Risk
• Profiled with 29 other women engineers in www.30yearslater.ca to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre
• Protecting workers exposed to ground hazards through enhanced Field Level Hazard Assessment tools
• Protecting workers exposed to ground hazards through enhanced hazard identification and management tools
• Published Paper Award of Excellence
• Reclaimed Resilient Land And Water Systems – Land
• Reclaimed Resilient Land And Water Systems – Success Indicators
• Reclaimed Resilient Land And Water Systems – Water
• Resilient Reclaimed Land And Water Systems Theme Organizational Meeting
• Resilient Reclaimed Land And Water Systems Workshop
• Resilient Reclaimed Land And Water Systems Workshop
• Risk communication in Athabasca oil sands tailings operations
• Risk Communication Teaching Module. Minerva Canada: Mississauga, ON.
• Risk, Innovation, and Sustainability Chair (RISC), David and Joan Lynch School of Engineering Safety and Risk Management, July 2022 –
• Roadmaps and Roadblocks for Energy Transformation: Converting Oil and Gas Wells to Geothermal Resources
• Role of Safety Management Systems (SMS) in the railway industry and potential for enhancement of the Railway Safety Act (RSA)
• Sattari F.*, Kurian, D.*, Lefsrud, L.M., & Macciotta, R. 2021. Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques to analyze incident reports
• Say What? University of Alberta prof says we all need to calm down
• Science denial impact: People, organizations, and institutions
• Science denial: causes, courses, and remedies. A route map for organizational scholars
• Seeing the forest and the trees: Using machine learning to categorize and analyze incident reports for Alberta oil sands operators
• Social License to Operate: Legitimacy by Another Name?
• Spanning Boundaries Through Conferences: Engaging Diverse EDI Stakeholders to Promote Change
• SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, Enhancing Regulatory Effectiveness and Corporate Performance
• Summit Award
• Sustainability Workshop
• Sustainable Leadership and Management of Complex Engineering Systems: A Team Based Structured Case Study Approach
• Tailings Fatality Research Finds Communication Breakdowns, Daily Oil Bulletin, by Deborah Jaremko
• Techno-economic assessment for heating cattle feed water with low-temperature geothermal energy: a case study from central Alberta, Canada
• The ecology of regulatory change: The Security and Exchange Commission’s modernization of oil and gas reserves reporting
• Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques to analyze incident reports.
• Using BP Neural Networks to Prioritize Risk Management Approaches for China’s Unconventional Shale Gas Industry
• Using Process Safety Management tools to identify and assess tailings hazards
• Visiting Scholar
• WinSETT - Creating a Centre for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.