Category: Publications
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Masters project completed, adding a case study of the 2023 Riederhorn wildfire to the FiRES portfolio
(Photos are from the photo-book “Brand am Riederhorn” (2023), reproduced with the kind permission of the Bitsch and Riederhorn Municipalities.) For the past year, Lena Widmer has focused her Masters project on the 2023 Riederhorn wildfire in Canton Valais, Switzerland. Commonly referred to in the press as the Bitsch wildfire, the Riederhorn more accurately refers…
Christine Eriksen
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It’s full steam ahead with a new institutional home for the FiRES project!
As of October 1, 2025, the FiRES project has a new institutional home at ETH Zürich. I am excited to be back in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, which is hosting the FiRES project after its initial two years at the University of Bern. FiRES’ fieldwork and collaborations continue unabated. The team…
Christine Eriksen
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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…
Christine Eriksen
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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…
Christine Eriksen
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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…
Christine Eriksen
Dr. Christine Eriksen 