Natural Hazards Research Australia’s education program continues to grow with the addition of two new Postgraduate Scholarship Students and a new Early Career Research Fellow.
Postgraduate Scholarship Students
Natural Hazards Research Australia welcomes two new PhD students to the Centre’s education program from the University of Melbourne.
Natale Froia's project Designing shadow disasters: Hidden knowledge politics in floodplain management in regional Victoria and New South Wales is community-based and collaborative. The project is enhancing the understanding of community experiences of settler-colonial governance strategies in floodplain management. Natale’s research will identify and utilise ways to promote more holistic and inclusive flood planning, design and recovery that is sensitive to water-society relationships and values local knowledges.
Gabrielle Miller’s project Exploring settler perspectives and engagements with cultural land management initiatives and its implications for working together on bushfire management will provide an in-depth understanding of the perspectives and experiences of settler landholders’ who are or have been engaged in Indigenous fire management activities across east Gippsland. Gabrielle’s research will gain important insights into the challenges and opportunities for cross-cultural fire management and inform fire management policies, land-use planning and reconciliation efforts at local and regional levels.
Natale and Gabrielle join 39 other Postgraduate Research Scholars at the Centre. The Centre’s Postgraduate Research Scholarships are open all year and are available for PhD studies and Masters by Research degrees.
Two scholarships are available:
- Full scholarships: up to $30,000 per year for up to three and a half years for PhD students and up to two years for Masters students (excluding periods of approved leave).
- Top-up PhD scholarships: up to $15,000 per year for three and a half years to either:
- holders of Research Training Program (RTP) or similar university research scholarships
- holders of partial scholarships funded by an industry organisation.
Early Career Researcher Fellow
Centre researcher and newly appointed Early Career Research Fellow Dr Gabi Mocatta will explore immersive media technologies and how they can improve communication and resilience for her Fellowship. The Fellowship will support Gabi’s career development and establish new collaborations with national and international hazard communication centres and scholars.
Gabi will visit the iFire facility at the University of New South Wales’ Centre for Interactive Cinema Research where she will collaborate with Prof Dennis Del Favero. iFire is known for its innovative creative hazard communication research and practice that is used for training emergency responders in 3D immersive systems.
She will then head to Denmark to visit the University of Copenhagen’s Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research (COPE) led by A/Prof Emmanuel Raju. COPE is an interdisciplinary research centre that focuses on disaster risk reduction and improving disaster communication.
For details on the Centre’s Postgraduate Research Scholarship and Early Career Researcher programs, including eligibility criteria, how to apply and key dates, visit the Education page.