

My first paper is now published!
At the end of 2018 my first academic paper was published here in Australia. A copy of the full article (open access) can be found here...

Recap on 2018
2018 was a very busy year (as always!) at the Torrens Resilience Institute. One of the best features of my job is putting together the...


Run Piggy Run....
I’ve loved history since I was a child and whilst kids were buying Smash Hits, I subscribed to the History magazine about Tudors and the...


Défis, leçons et de passer...
Challenges, Lessons and Moving on....that is the title of this blog entry. In a previous assignment for my Bachelor Degree in Emergency...


How do you define success when people die?
It is a difficult word 'success' when applying it to incidents. Brigadier General Philippe Boutinaud struggled with the concept of...


The worm is in the fruit....
With 2 children, running my own business, completing a degree and a dog that always seems to need a wee at 3am the total hours of sleep I...


Request for participants in an emergency management research project
Dudley McArdle (previously the Director of the Australian Emergency Management Institute before he joined the Monash University Disaster...


Help or Hinder? Factors for making decisions under stress
A recent unit of my Undergraduate Degree in Emergency Management included a look at making decisions. My first paper for the unit...