Request for participants in an emergency management research project
- johannavalentine
- Apr 27, 2016
- 1 min read
Dudley McArdle (previously the Director of the Australian Emergency Management Institute before he joined the Monash University Disaster Resilience Initiative (MUDRI) from Monash is seeking help!
He is undertaking research into a demographic study to identify the characteristics of Australia's emergency managers, then trying to identify whether those characteristics enable us to say whether or not EM in Australia can rightly be described as a profession.
He is reaching out to as wide an audience as he can, including the broadest possible cross section of emergency managers (who he defines as anyone who is involved in helping to prepare for, prevent, respond to or recover from emergencies, in any capacity - part-time, full time, volunteer, senior, junior, responder, recovery manager, planner, public servant, health worker, community worker,
He requires upwards of 400 emergency managers to answer the survey below. Hopefully, the results will help inform many aspects of our work, particularly training requirements. The survey will take less than 20 minutes and can be accessed through the following link:
