Each year, the Australian Research Council funds up to 200 Discovery Early Career Research Awards (DECRA) to support excellent and innovative research that addresses a significant problem or gap in knowledge and that benefits Australia.
When the 2024 cohort came together in March 2024 for an induction event, it became clear that enhancing community resilience through multiple disciplines and approaches was a common theme across the projects. Community resilience has been defined by Koliou et al. (2020) and Patel et al. (2017). Here, we conceptualise climate and disaster community resilience as having 4 components that the collective DECRA projects contribute to.
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Title
Building community resilience through the multi-disciplinary research of Australia’s leading early career researchers
Authors
Carmen Elrick-Barr - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
Annah Piggott-McKellar - Queensland University of Technology
Publication details
The Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Vol.40(3), pp.82-84