Heather Stuart

Heather Stuart

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capability, education
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Heather Stuart

Lead end user

Capability needs for emergency & disaster management organisations

This study will examine in-depth lessons from historical emergencies and disasters by engaging with state and federal response agencies, as well as those supporting response and recovery, and local government.
Research team:
agoonetilleke

Improving decision-making in complex multi-team environments

Emergencies are increasing in complexity, duration, and the number of agencies involved. This is likely to lead to an increasing number of errors being made, breakdowns in teams and degraded operational situations. These problems will play out within the context of a decreasing tolerance in the community and their political representatives. Rather than distributing the blame to individuals, we need to acknowledge that errors and breakdowns in emergency management teams will occur, and that it is important to seek and manage them in a mature and systematic way. The current project has three main research streams that are examining team monitoring, decision making and organisational learning.
Research team:
bbrooks, cowen, scurnin

Catastrophic and cascading events: planning and capability

Catastrophic events are cascading in nature, escalating in their impacts as interconnected essential services fail, causing further impacts and making the recovery more complex and prolonged. Events may not respect borders or boundaries, resulting in unclear accountabilities amongst responding agencies, and conflicting strategies and public messaging as different jurisdictions respond.

This study commenced in July 2017, and aims to better understand the nature of catastrophe and identify ways to improve management approaches in the Australian context.

Research team:
meburn, khaynes, gsmith, mtofa, agissing

Diversity and inclusion: building strength and capability

This new study, which began in July 2017, will focus on understanding what effective diversity and inclusion is and how this can be measured. This will be achieved through identifying where effective diversity and inclusion is occurring within organisations, the characteristic of this and how it can be implemented and measured at an organisational level. This will be examined from community, organisational and economic perspectives.
Research team:
ccormick, rjones, fmacdonald

National mental health and wellbeing study of police and emergency services

For the first time, a nationwide research project investigated the mental health and wellbeing of Australia’s emergency service staff and volunteers. Beyond Blue in collaboration with the CRC, surveyed 20,000 current and former personnel from 33 police and emergency organisations across Australia about their mental health and risk of suicide.

Research team:
jbartlett, wrikkers, gbardsley, bpackard
27 Aug 2019
Team Management, Decision Making & Organisational Learning
decision making
In this project we’ve developed a number of tools that can help people to better manage teams, make...
Decision Making, Team Monitoring & Organizational Learning: 2018 Update
18 Sep 2018
Decision Making, Team Monitoring & Organizational Learning: 2018 Update
decision making, emergency management
The project is providing practical techniques and strategies to help people function in more...
Decision making, team monitoring & organisational learning: 2017 update
30 Jun 2017
Decision making, team monitoring & organisational learning: 2017 update
decision making, emergency management
This project has three main research streams that are:Providing enhanced methods of making...
Decision Making, Team Monitoring and Organisational Learning
18 Aug 2015
Decision Making, Team Monitoring and Organisational Learning
decision making
This Project aims to provide enhanced ways of:Making decisions in complex situationsMonitoring...

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