Tag: insurance
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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 