About RMIT University
The RMIT Disaster Research Networks brings together researchers to examine current approaches to managing responses to natural and human-induced disasters.
It aims to build disaster resilience across the Asia Pacific region by connecting communities with industry, government and experts in mapping, detection, warning, infrastructure, risk, modelling, planning, post-disaster reconstruction and the social sciences.
Dr David Barton
Completed associate student
Prof Nicholas Chrisman
Researcher
Dr Raven Cretney
Completed associate student
Zoe D'Arcy
Associate student
Amila Dissanayake
PhD student
Prof John Fien
Supervisor
Dr Akvan Gajanayake
Completed associate student
Prof Annette Gough
Researcher
A/Prof Rebecca Gravina
Supervisor
Dr Vaibhav Gupta
Completed associate student
Dr Bryan Hally
Completed PhD student
Prof John Handmer
Researcher
Sam Hillman
Associate student
Dr Fiona Jennings
Completed PhD student
Prof Simon Jones
Researcher
Dr Farook Kalendher
Completed associate student
Dr Adriana Keating
Researcher
Dr Tarn Kruger
Researcher
James Leversha
PhD student
Chun Qing Li
Researcher
Dr Tariq Maqsood
Researcher
Kate McAuslan
PhD student
Darryn McEvoy
Researcher
Dr Blythe McLennan
Researcher
Dr Peter Moar
Researcher
Hessam Mohseni
Researcher
Sean Morling
Associate student
Jane Mullett
Researcher
A/Prof Martin Mulligan
supervisor
Dr Maryam Nasim
Completed PhD student
Clare O'Callaghan
PhD student
Sofia Oliveira
Researcher
Dr Ismail Qeshta
Completed associate student
Dr Gabriela Raducan
Completed associate student
Dr Karin Reinke
Researcher
Dr Judy Rogers
PhD Supervisor
Prof Sujeeva Setunge
Researcher
Dr Ken Strahan
Completed associate student
Simeon Telfer
PhD student
Dr Briony Towers
Researcher
Alexei Trundle
Researcher
Dr Mittul Vahanvati
Completed associate student
Luke Wallace
Researcher
Dr Chathura Wickramasinghe
Completed associate student
Zeinab Yazdanfar
PhD student
Kevin Zhang
Researcher
Disaster in relation to attachment, loss, grief and recovery: the Marysville experience
Dr David Barton
Completed associate student
Establishing a monitoring, evaluation and reporting framework: stage 2
Science and Policy Impacts - Establishing a Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Framework
The post-disaster city: Urban crisis politics and social change in community led earthquake recovery
Dr Raven Cretney
Completed associate student
Towards fire-adaptive communities in Australia
Zoe D'Arcy
Associate student
Community engagement in the post-disaster landscape
Zoe D'Arcy
Associate student
Fire resilience of existing composite steel plate girder bridges
Amila Dissanayake
PhD student
Measuring the social, environmental and economic consequences of bridge failure due to natural disasters
Dr Akvan Gajanayake
Completed associate student
Remote sensing of fire severity in Australian dry sclerophyll forests
Dr Vaibhav Gupta
Completed associate student
Methods for background temperature estimation in the context of active fire detection
Dr Bryan Hally
Completed PhD student
The value of disaster research
Prof John Handmer
Researcher
Social, economic, and environmental impacts of the 2012/13 Victorian fire season
Prof John Handmer
Researcher
Out of uniform: building community resilience through non-traditional emergency volunteering
Prof John Handmer
Researcher
Probability of fire ignition and escalation
The utility of point clouds to estimate fuel hazards
Sam Hillman
Associate student
Community volunteering and disaster recovery
Dr Fiona Jennings
Completed PhD student
Fire surveillance and hazard mapping
Prof Simon Jones
Researcher
Dr Karin Reinke
Researcher
Next generation Fuels 3D remote sensing
Prof Simon Jones
Researcher
Black Summer bushfires: South Australia reconstructions
Prof Simon Jones
Researcher
Dr Karin Reinke
Researcher
Using earth observation to better understand the effects of aerial firefighting
Prof Simon Jones
Researcher
Dr Karin Reinke
Researcher
Synthetic damage curves for concrete girder bridges under flood hazard
Dr Farook Kalendher
Completed associate student
Thermal Remote Sensing
James Leversha
PhD student
Flood risk mitigation assessment for Launceston
Dr Tariq Maqsood
Researcher
Child-centred Disaster Risk Reduction
Kate McAuslan
PhD student
Enabling sustainable emergency volunteering
Dr Blythe McLennan
Researcher
Developing a spatial approach to model sediment transfer in catchments affected by bushfire
Sean Morling
Associate student
Investigation into the behaviour of a U-slab bridge due to flood
Dr Maryam Nasim
Completed PhD student
Spatio-temporal assessment of wildfires in Australia: an investigation into the effects of fire history on the landscape
Clare O'Callaghan
PhD student
Fragility and resilience of bridge structures subjected to extreme wave-induced loads
Dr Ismail Qeshta
Completed associate student
Impact of bushfire on water quality
Dr Gabriela Raducan
Completed associate student
Enhancing resilience of critical road infrastructure
Prof Sujeeva Setunge
Researcher
Household decision making in bushfire self evacuation
Dr Ken Strahan
Completed associate student
Application of self-evacuation archetypes
Dr Ken Strahan
Completed associate student
Remote sensing of fuel to improve fire behaviour predictions
Simeon Telfer
PhD student
Child-centred disaster risk reduction
Dr Briony Towers
Researcher
Post-disaster housing reconstruction as a means of enhancing disaster resilience of at-risk communities in India
Dr Mittul Vahanvati
Completed associate student
Multi resolution, high temporal fire monitoring and intensity mapping using Himawari-8 Advanced Himawari Imager data
Dr Chathura Wickramasinghe
Completed associate student
Prediction of scour on bridge piers under flood loading
Zeinab Yazdanfar
PhD student
Next generation Fuels 3D remote sensing
Sam Hillman
Associate student
