It is Week 2 of the new academic year and our students have moved on to the three-week Humanitarian Shelter and Settlements course. It started off with Post-Disaster Planning from…
In this new part of our alumni interview series, we talked to Md. Sarfaraz Gani Adnan, who completed our master in 2014 and went on to complete his PhD at…
A new report outlines the key takeaways from the Design, Disaster & Development Research Forum that took place July 6th at RMIT Europe’s headquarters in Barcelona, which focused on the…
Haznet, the Canadian Risks and Hazards Network‘s dissemination platform, has published a new issue of their magazine title Build Back Better, which include contributions by our faculty member Lorenzo Chelleri…
Disasters happen all the time. We can’t always prevent them from happening, but disaster risk reduction efforts can limit the scale of devastation. Launched this Tuesday to coincide with the…
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), and the ANDROID Disaster Resilience Network are launching a Media Arts competition for students as a way to look into the…
This kid is incredible. A passion for math, science and fixing problems has led the extraordinary Peyton Robertson to create a better sandbag solution in the face of superstorms and…
“Does the current architecture and organisational mix really help to eliminate the ‘silent’ disasters and the everyday risks that now form a major part of how we understand disaster impacts?”…