Resilience: Social Research

Research Group Summary

The social resilience research group encompasses a wide range of social and societal research with the intention to assist, through increased knowledge and understanding, communities and organisations in identification of key issues and strategic developments to help mitigate the detrimental effects associated with natural hazard events.

Key Contact

• Thomas McDonald Wilson: Group Leader; School of Earth and Environment

Members - UC Staff

• Stephen Robert Agnew: Researcher; Department of Economics and Finance
• Neville Morris Blampied: Researcher; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
• Eileen Britt: Researcher; School of Health Sciences; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
• Janet Deborah Carter: Researcher; Faculty of Science
• Martin Justin Dorahy: Researcher; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
• Rosemary Du Plessis: Researcher; Language, Social and Political Sciences
• Christopher Gomez: Researcher; School of Earth and Environment
• Jennifer Hay: Researcher; Linguistics
• Stephen Hickson: Researcher; Business Taught Masters Programmes
• Zita Joyce: Researcher; Media and Communication
• Simon Kemp: Researcher; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
• Simon Paul Kingham: Researcher; School of Earth and Environment
• Roeline Gerarda Kuijer: Researcher; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
• Joana C Kuntz: Researcher; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
• Ruth McManus: Researcher; Sociology and Anthropology
• Eric John Pawson: Researcher; School of Earth and Environment
• Annie Potts: Researcher; English
• Annabel Mary Taylor: Researcher; Language, Social and Political Sciences
• Kate van Heugten: Researcher; Sociology and Anthropology
• Thomas McDonald Wilson: Group Leader; School of Earth and Environment
• Alan Frazer Wright: Researcher; English

• Animal Earthquake Stories
• Challenges in the human services in the aftermath of a natural disaster
• City of Flows: Household Water Practices in Christchurch, New Zealand
• Dutch immigrants in Christchurch and the aftermath of the earthquakes
• Earthquake Tourism
• Experience of relationship challenges (conflict) following natural disaster: an analysis of Relationship Services clinical data following two earthquakes in Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
• Factors affecting residential and business relocation decisions following the Canterbury earthquakes
• Film on the faultline
• Health and Well-being study: psychosocial impact of the earthquakes and aftermath
• How do earthquakes affect academic performance?
• Psychological Responses After a Major, Fatal Earthquake: The Effect of Peritraumatic Dissociation and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms on Anxiety and Depression
• Psychological well-being in Christchurch following the September and February earthquakes
• Reflection Collection: Digitally capturing Students products from earthquake related course at UC
• Sedimer Project
• Stories of Movement: Experiences of disruption and adjustment in post quake city
• Sustainable Communities
• The Christchurch Cathedral controversy
• The contribution of community-based learning to post-disaster recovery in Canterbury
• The effectiveness of the law relating to landlords and tenants in the aftermath of the Canterbury earthquakes
• The emotional impact of the Earthquakes on Teachers
• The impact of the Canterbury earthquakes on intimate relationships
• The relationships of geographical variations in health outcome and earthquake impact
• UC CEISMIC
• UCQuakebox: Digital Translation and Transcription of Earthquake Stories
• Undergraduate teaching of economics
• Understanding Place

• Resilience: Social: Animals and People; Culture and Heritage; Education; Emergency Management Planning; Health and Wellbeing; Media and Communication; People and Community; Psychology and Relationships
• Resilience: Commercial: Law and Policy

• UCR3 website
  
• UC Quake Centre (UCQC) website
  
• UC Ceismic Canterbury Earthquake Digital Archive website
  
• NZi3
  
• Employee Resilience Research website
  
• Earthquake Research
  
• Societal Resilience - NHRP
  
• Hazard and Disaster Management at UC