Disaster Resilience Research Network
The UBC Disaster Resilience Research Network intends to build transdisciplinary connections and identify shared research goals to inform disaster risk reduction policy and decision making at community and governance levels. The cluster aims to advance multi-hazard assessment and mitigation in support of an inclusive and equitable development of just disaster risk management.
Campus
Vancouver
Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Hooper, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social sciences; Urban planning; Urban Policy; Comparative Politics; Spatial Planning and Policy; International development; Disasters; Displacement; Densification; Organizations |
| Kim, Amy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | |
| McConnell, Kathryn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social sciences; environmental sociology; climate change; wildfire; migration; built environment |
| Murphy, Enda | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | |
| Murphy, Enda | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Hydraulic engineering; Marine engineering, n.e.c.; Nearshore processes and coastal oceanography; Estuarine oceanography; Coastal and estuarine system dynamics; Nature-based solutions; Whole system thinking; Coastal systems engineering; Transdisciplinary research; Numerical modelling; Physical modelling; Coastal flood and erosion hazard risk |
| Shneiderman, Sara | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Indigenous issues; Disaster response and preparedness; Citizenship; migration; Indigenous issues, Disaster response and preparedness, Citizenship, Migration |