Dr Thomas Cooper-Johnson

The University of Newcastle

About

Thomas Johnson is a lecturer in the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Newcastle. He was previously awarded the CIOB post-graduate award for his honours thesis on the strategy formation of non-government organisations and went on to complete a Masters of Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development and a PhD (disaster management).

Thomas has experience with embedded research and has worked alongside local and international NGOs to improve research outcomes. His PhD looks into NGOs operating in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh and assessing their impact on long-term drivers of disaster vulnerability