I am a lecturer in Human Geography and Environmental Science who specialises in the role of civil society in disaster and crisis events. In particular, I study the emergence of new non-governmental organisations - seeking to examine how they leverage specific contexts in order to bring about longer-term change. My PhD examined these ideas in the aftermath of the 2010-11 Christchurch (New Zealand) earthquakes.

Jul 17, 2024 08:26 am UTC| Insights & Views
At first glance, the 2024 remake movie Twisters contains many of the ingredients of the 1996 original, which starred Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton: a catastrophic and rare weather event, the urgency to use new technology to...