Pat tells her story of surviving the fires, a project for women that was implemented after the fires, and of how this experience has changed her view (and her husband’s) of her fire plan. (Please be aware that some viewers may be concerned about some language at the end […]
Initially I was concerned that much of the literature that I would read, would be highly ‘academic’ – in the sense that it would be ‘disconnected from the real world’. I have now read approximately 150 articles or books and I am finding that it is very focussed on the real world. Many writers […]
Ideas and information in support of my work, arrive regularly from friends. People are beginning to learn that I’m doing this research. They are keen to help and so they send me things that they notice. I love that my friends do this – it is a personal demonstration of community support and resilience – […]
There is so much information available about disaster management and disaster response. It is quite a daunting task to become well read and well informed about this topic area. There is a large amount of information about disasters overseas – research has been done about disasters across Asia and for large scale recent disasters like […]
I began my PhD in March 2012 – my area of interest being community recovery after natural disaster. I experienced my first bushfire when I was a teenager in Western Victoria. My father fought the fire as part of the volunteer bush brigade. The town of Streatham was razed and one life was lost. I […]