Rural Disaster Resiliency Project (RDRP) Core Research Team

Who are we?

The core research team is a dynamic group of people, with a wide variety of expertise, skills and cross-cultural backgrounds, brought together by a common interest in community disaster resilience.

The Core Research Team members technical knowledge and expertise includes the following areas:

• Emergency management
• Population health
• Disaster Psychology & Sociology
• Resilience
• Rural extension education
• Natural resource sciences
• Gender analysis
• Community-based research
• Project management
• Leadership

What do we do?

The Core Research Team provides scientific leadership and oversight for the Rural Disaster Resilience Project.

• Scientific/Technical members of our project team contribute to:
• Design and development of the integrated risk assessment & management framework
• Indicators for community disaster resilience
• Research methodology and techniques
• Community engagement strategies for knowledge exchange
• Education/training curricula
• Research presentations and publications
• Operations/Administrative members of the team are the “glue” that hold our project together. They provide us with:
• Office coordination
• Financial analysis and reporting
• Project monitoring and reporting
• Maintenance of project networks and communications

Core Research Team Membership:

Scientific/Technical:

• Dr. Greg Anderson (Administrative Project Lead and Co-Principal Investigator)
• Ron Bowles PhD (Candidate), (Co-Principal Investigator)
• Dr. Carol Amaratunga (Co-Investigator)
• Dr. Robin Cox (Co-Investigator and Research Lead)
• Dr. Laurie Pearce (Co-Investigator)
• Dr. Murray Journeay (Co-Investigator)
• Colleen Vaughan (Co-Investigator)

Project & Operations Management:

• Dawn Ursuliak (Research Project Manager)
• Terry Bodaly ( Administrative Research Assistant)

Research Management:

• Dr. Bethan Lloyd (Field Research Manager)

Sessional Researchers:

• Karen-Marie Perry
• John Liesch

BC Field Site Researchers:

• Margaret (Marti) Hamlen
• Dr. Catherine Luke
• Linda Myers

BC Community Based Researchers:

• Codee Bowe
• Siobhan Grey
• Rachel Gruhs
• Pharis Romero

The project was successful in identifying partnerships which will advance the Research work in three field sites across Canada.

The Field Site Research Team includes:

Ontario Field Site Researcher:

• Dr. Brenda Murphy

Ontario Community Based Researchers:

• Cathy Addison
• Mike Henderson
• Brian Swanton

Nova Scotia Field Site Researcher:

• Dr. Deborah Stiles, Nova Scotia Agricultural College.

Nova Scotia Community Researcher:

• Trudy Watts

Manitoba Field Site Researcher:

• Brian Kayes

Manitoba Community Researchers:

• Anne Danielson
• Alton Gervin
• Erin Wanner
• Gary Williams