18 April 2012
Towards a research partnership in disaster management and resilience symposium
RMIT and the University of Salford Centre for Disaster Resilience is hosting a one-day symposium on 29 November. International research linkages are increasingly becoming important in securing competitive grants and demonstrating global impact. This one-day research symposium will enable the sharing of disaster and resilience research and is an opportunity to develop a strong research partnership between our institutions.
Event details
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Towards a research partnership in disaster management and resilience symposium |
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2012-11-29 |
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9:00am-5:00pm |
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RMIT City Campus |
RSVP
Please send all enquiries to gayle.seddon@rmit.edu.au.
Symposium themes
Themes of mutual research interest at RMIT and the Salford Centre for Disaster Resilience Centre include:
- Capacity building for mitigation and reconstruction
- Project management for post disaster reconstruction
- Community engagement to build disaster resilience
- Resilience and adaptive capacity
- Disaster risk reduction
- Risk management and sustainability
- Settlement infrastructure and shelter
- Stakeholder management
- Post disaster waste management
- Extreme weather events and coping strategies
- Community engagement and participation in reconstruction
- Role of women in mitigating and managing disasters
- Protection and empowerment of women and other vulnerable groups
- Social impact of reconstruction
- Post-disaster livelihood development
- Development and construction
- Knowledge management and integration
- Public policy, governance & procurement
- Business
Deadline call for papers: 31 October 2012
Please submit your name and the title and abstract of a paper may wish to present to:
- Ms Gayle Seddon, Manager, SURF Research Program gayle.seddon@rmit.edu.au
- Professor John Fien, Professor of Sustainability john.fien@rmit.edu.au
Papers with oral presentations to be 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes discussion.
Symposium supporters
- SURF Research Program, Global Cities Research Institute (this link will take you away from RMIT)
- University of Salford Centre for Disaster Resilience (this link will take you away from RMIT)
- EU Centre at RMIT
- RMIT Disaster Research Network
- Communication, Politics and Culture Research Cluster