QuakeCoRE
Project Number: 2019-138 (6 projects available)
Project Leader: Brendon Bradley, Chris McGann
Host Department: QuakeCoRE
Project Title: USER: Undergraduate Studies in Earthquake Resilience
Project outline: USER is a summer research programme led by QuakeCoRE: The NZ Centre for Earthquake
Resilience (www.quakecore.nz) at the University of Canterbury. The aim of the USER
programme is to provide multi-disciplinary research opportunties for undergraduate (UG)
students to become exposed to various aspects of the earthquake resilience problem.
The programme is open to 6 UG students from science, engineering, social science, and
creative arts disciplines. We believe that two differentiating factors in our programme for
UG research is: (1) a large collection of students from a variety of different disciplinary
background who forge collaborations via a 'grand challenge' problem related to Earthquake
Resilience in New Zealand; and (2) students have access to the network of NZ's leading
researchers, who are members of QuakeCoRE, and who will collectively provide mentoring
to students as well as guest lectures and field trips. More information is available here: https://tinyurl.com/qcuser2018
Specific Requirements: none specified