Dr Kirrilly Thompson

Dr Kirrilly Thompson

Researcher
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Dr Kirrilly Thompson

Kirrilly is a Senior Researcher and was one of ABC's Top 5 scientists under 40 for 2015.

She is a trained anthropologist who uses ethnographic methods to research the cultural dimensions of risk-perception and safety. Kirrilly has particular interests in human-animal interactions, high risk interspecies activities and equestrianism. She has proposed the 'Pets as Protective Factor' principle, based on a DECRA project identifying how animal attachment can be re-considered as a protective factor for human survival of natural disasters.

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This project was commissioned and funded entirely by the Country Fire Service, SA.

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