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With 67 active projects, 10 completed projects, 800-plus research outputs, $26 million in funding allocated and five Early Career Research Fellows – the second half of 2024 was another strong six months for Natural Hazards Research Australia (the Centre) as we work with our Participants and researchers to ensure research is useful, usable and used.
Reflecting on the last half of 2024, the Centre, our Participants and knowledge network continue to build on a solid foundation of useful and usable research to tackle Australia’s current and future natural hazards and disaster risk reduction needs.
Together with our researchers we continue to focus on the utilisation and impact. To ensure a safer and more resilient Australia, as a country we need to be ahead of the curve, foresee risks and take proactive measures to reduce or adapt to our rising risks. This focus on the long-term future is what the Centre is committed to contributing to.
We need to be thinking 20 years in advance and engage now in robust conversations to identify necessary research for the future.
Take a moment to review impact data below, highlighting ongoing efforts to deliver end-user tailored research, build capability in the sector and communicate research findings.
Our research program continues to evolve to cover research addressing knowledge gaps in longstanding and emerging issues to ensure every Australian benefits.
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Research outputs continue to be used to make Australian communities safer, more resilient and sustainable in the face of more frequent and severe natural hazards, including:
- Measuring resilience to disasters, with the Australian Disaster Resilience Index
- The Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience’s handbook collection of industry guidelines backed by research
- Safety messages on ABC Radio backed by research
The start of 2025 continues to reinforce the need to think big for the future and identify the research necessary to be prepared and ready to help keep Australia and Australians safe from natural hazards. The Centre’s impact in the past six months underscores the need for and benefit of this approach. There is so much more to come in 2025 and I look forward to seeing what we can all achieve, together, that sees research findings used to improve policies and practices, that ultimately lead to a safer, more resilient Australia.