Blogs: posts from our Students

Wildfire engineering – a new...
07 Oct 2020
As a 14-year career firefighter who has worked in both metropolitan and country operations in Western Australia, I have not only...
Dr Greg Penney
Completed associate student
From PhD to practice
12 Aug 2020
I wouldn’t have thought I’d be where I am now. I find myself back working in community disaster recovery after experiencing...
Dr Fiona Jennings
Completed PhD student
Migrant voices in new disaster...
10 Jul 2020
A new edited book, Disasters in Australia and New Zealand: Historical Approaches to Understanding Catastrophe, that was launched...
Gretel Evans
Associate student
Fire-adaptive communities in...
17 Jun 2020
Australian communities shouldn’t be asked to just ‘adapt’ to more bushfires. Community-level ‘adaptive approaches’ to fire in the...
Zoe D'Arcy
Associate student
I’ve spent 14 years on bushfire...
27 Mar 2020
This article originally appeared in The Conversation on 18 March 2020. I can vividly remember my first experience as a junior...
Dr Greg Penney
Completed associate student
To burn or not to burn is not the...
05 Feb 2020
This article originally appeared in Inside Story on 17 January 2020. During five years of researching the history and politics of...
Dr Daniel May
Completed associate student
‘I can still picture the faces’:...
08 Jan 2020
This article originally appeared in The Conversation on 2 January 2020. By Prof Leanne Cutcher and Dr Graham Dwyer.Evocative...
Dr Graham Dwyer
Completed PhD student
Homes can be better prepared for...
09 Dec 2019
This article originally appeared in The Conversation on 4 December 2019. By Mitchell Scovell and Daniel Smith. Most Australians...
Dr Mitchell Scovell
Completed associate student
Becoming fire-fit: preparing for...
14 May 2019
This blog was originally published on the Australian and New Zealand Disaster Management Conference (ANZDMC) website on 10 May...
Rachel Westcott
Dr Rachel Westcott
Completed PhD student
Still Smouldering: reflections on...
14 Feb 2019
Ten years after the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009, Victorians are pausing to reflect on the fires and its continuing presence...
Gretel Evans
Associate student
My trip to Mount Vesuvius
16 Oct 2018
This September I attended the Cities on Volcanoes conference in Naples, Italy. It was the 10th assembly of the conference, which...
Emma Singh
Dr Emma Singh
Completed PhD student
An exhibition of Australian...
21 Jun 2018
Science at the Shine Dome is the flagship event of the Australian Academy of Science. Each year, the three day event celebrates...
Rachael Quill
Dr Rachael Quill
Completed PhD student
Fire management research at...
30 Jan 2018
Last year I had the opportunity to travel to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Imperial College London to attend a...
Dr Rahul Wadhwani
Completed PhD student
Sharing PhD findings on community...
31 Oct 2017
In September this year I presented my PhD research to approximately 170 people in two states of Australia - at the CRC's Research...
Dr Fiona Jennings
Completed PhD student
Volcano visits in the Pacific...
20 Oct 2017
In August this year, with financial support from the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, I attend the 2017 International...
Emma Singh
Dr Emma Singh
Completed PhD student
Portugal experience after...
17 Aug 2017
I travelled to the University of Coimbra in Portugal in late June, where I was hosted for two weeks at the Centre for Forest Fire...
Michael Storey
PhD student