Dr Holly Faulkner
Holly has a Masters in International Law and Politics and a PhD in in Disaster, Risk & Resilience at the University of Canterbury. Holly has been involved in several disaster law projects including an IFRC project that mapped the disaster laws of Pacific nations. In 2019, Holly received a research grant from QuakeCoRE to investigate the 2019 rescEU mechanism and its relationship to supranationalism. Holly has recently joined the MaREI Centre as Senior Post-Doctoral researcher. As part of her role, she will be working on the DIRECTED project - a Horizon Europe project focusing on reducing vulnerability to extreme weather events and fostering disaster-resilient European societies. The project promotes interoperability of data, models, communication and governance on all levels and between all actors of the disaster risk management and climate adaptation process.
Dr Sulaiman Sarwary
Sulaiman is an experienced development practitioner with over 15 years of work in humanitarian and development sectors, underpinned by a background in law. He recently completed his PhD in Disaster Law, Risk, and Resilience at the University of Canterbury. His research examined how provisions for public engagement in the legal framework for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in Aotearoa New Zealand shape public involvement. He currently serves as the Lead for International Development Programmes at Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand (CAZN), where he oversees partner-led implementation in the Pacific and Southeast Asia in areas such as climate finance, disaster risk reduction, market driven skills, sustainable livelihoods and community resilience.
His research interests include institutional frameworks for DRM and the role of community in disaster recovery. He is co-authoring an article with Professor John Hopkins on the role of New Zealand’s National Emergency Management Agency in the management of COVID-19 pandemic. He is also working with Professor Annick and Dr. Ayşe Mahinur Tezcan of Istanbul University on a study examining the unexpected decrease in violence against women following the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes in Türkiye.
