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Nurturing collaborations!
Since 2014, Gregory Simon and I have nurtured an on-going research collaboration that has enabled us to think and write together about the diverse ways affluence and vulnerability intersect in the context of disasters. Many have inspired and worked with us along the way, and to continue to grow this collaborative endeavour, the Geographies of…
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Watch the closing plenary session of the AFE Fire Congress 2023 online!
Did you miss the awesome closing plenary session at the AFE Fire Congress 2023? Fret not! The Association for Fire Ecology has made the recording available online. I talk from 9-39 mins, followed by Chief Royal Ramey from the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, and Ryan Reed and Kyle Trefny from the FireGeneration Collaborative. Please…
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From natural hazards to cyber resilience: moving beyond traditional risk analysis
Affluence and vulnerability are often seen as opposite sides of a coin – with affluence generally understood as reducing forms of vulnerability through increased resilience and adaptive capacity. However, during the past ten years, my research with a range of colleagues has consistently highlighted the need to re-examine this dynamic relationship in the context of…
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Consolidator Grant awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation!
I am excited and honored to announce that I have been awarded a Consolidator Grant of CHF 1.77 million by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). My five-year research project titled, Building Wildfire Resilient Communities in Europe (FiRES) will be hosted by the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern from 1 August 2023.…
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Researcher trauma and research ethics
Have you ever wondered how the ethics, impacts, and outcomes of research might impact researchers? This is a topic close to my heart given my personal experiences as a disaster researcher, and the impact years of analysing and listening to emotionally and politically charged narratives by disaster survivors, emergency managers, and residents fearful of the…
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Tally-up! Our four-year project on insurance and disasters concludes!
When disaster strikes, house and contents insurance is often positioned as a safety net of modern Australian life. Yet many households are under-insured or not insured at all. In 2017, Kate Booth (UTAS), Bruce Tranter (UTAS), Shaun French (UoN), and I were awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP170100096) to examine the social and…
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In conversation with Yale Climate Connections
I had the pleasure of talking with Yale Climate Connections about my recent research into the risk of wildfires rereleasing radioactive particles from areas contaminated by nuclear accidents and spillages. The conversation builds on an article I published in the journal Fire at the beginning of the year, which provides a perspective of the problem…
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Hot off the press: two book chapters!
I’m excited to share two new book chapters published as part of a fantastic edited collection on the topic of gender and the social dimensions of climate change. These two chapters provided a welcome opportunity to co-write with two talented researchers – Shefali Juneja Lakhina and Rachel Reimer, whose PhD research I have had the…
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Wiley Prize awarded for critical interrogation of the role of insurance in disaster resilience!
I am delighted to announce that Eliza de Vet and I have been awarded the Wiley Prize 2021 by the Institute of Australian Geographers and Wiley Publishers for our article ‘Untangling insurance, rebuilding, and wellbeing in bushfire recovery’, published in the journal Geographical Research in November 2020. The Jury particularly noted our critical interrogation of…
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