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Our Team

Academics

Collaborators

Sarah Beaven

Senior Lecturer

Fields of Research:

- Disaster Risk and Resilience
- Adaptive and Collaborative Governance
- Disaster Risk ...

Malcolm Campbell

Associate Professor

Human Geography

Fields of Research:

- Health Geography
- Public Health
- mGeoHealth
- Regional Science
- Spatial Data Science
- Regional ...

Ed Challies

Senior Lecturer

Waterways Centre

Fields of Research:

- Environmental governance
- Water resource management
- Groundwater governance
- Collaborative ...

Frances Charters

Senior Lecturer

Ecological Engineering

Fields of Research:

- Stormwater quality characterisation
- Stormwater quality modelling
- Stormwater treatment

Chris Chen

Senior Lecturer

Management, Marketing & Entrepreneurship

Fields of Research:

- Environmental Studies
- Human Geography
- Marketing and Tourism
- Resilience: Commercial: ...

Mesbahuddin Chowdhury

Senior Lecturer

Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship

Fields of Research:

- Buyer-supplier relationship
- Supply Chain Resilience
- Organizational resilience
- Social ...

Lindsey Conrow

Lecturer

Human Geography

Fields of Research:

- Mobility, accessibility and wellbeing
- Equity and community resilience
- Crowdsourced data

Kaley Crawford-Flett

Research Engineer; Project Lead Earth Structures (Dams) Project

Quake Centre

Rita Dionisio

Senior Lecturer

Human Geography

Fields of Research:

- Bicultural planning
- Urban resilience
- Community engagement
- Sustainable urban regeneration

Kelly Dombroski

Associate Professor

Human Geography

Fields of Research:

- Diverse Economies and solidarity economy
- Community Economies
- Development and ...

Bronwyn Hayward

Professor

Political Science

Fields of Research:

- Children and youth politics
- Climate change
- Urban governance and planning
- Resilience
- Social ...

Jack Heinemann

Professor

Biological Sciences

Fields of Research:

- Microbial genetics and evolution
- Horizontal gene transfer
- Risk assessment especially of ...

Matt Hobbs

Senior Lecturer

Public Health

Research Interests:

Dr. Matt Hobbs uses geospatial and population health methods to inform local and national public health policy to plan healthy places and reduce ...

Matthew Hughes

Senior Lecturer

Humanitarian Engineering

Fields of Research:

- Disaster risk and resilience
- Disaster impacts on ecosystems, infrastructure systems and ...

Dr John Hopkins

Professor

Disaster law

Fields of Research:

- Disaster Law
- Federalism, Devolution and Regional Governance
- New Zealand Public ...

Mehdi Keyvan-Ekbatani

Senior Lecturer

Transportation Engineering

Fields of Research:

- Urban and Motorway Traffic Flow Modelling and Control
- Traffic state estimation
- Automated ...

Simon Kingham

Professor

Human Geography,Chief Science Advisor, MoT

Fields of Research:

- Health and urban environment
- Sustainable transport
- Geohealth

Susan Krumdieck

Transition Engineering

Fields of Research:

- Transition Engineering
- Energy Transition in Buildings and Urban Form
- Energy Transition in ...

Tom Logan

Lecturer

Civil Systems Engineering

Fields of Research:

- Climate adaptation
- Risk science
- Urban planning
- Natural hazards
- Infrastructure ...

Sanna Malinen

Associate Professor

Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship

Fields of Research:

- Wellbeing at work
- Employee resilience
- Disaster management
- Volunteer worker ...

Dr Diane Mollenkopf

Associate Professor

Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship

Fields of Research:

- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Food Security
- Supply Chain Integration
- Closed Loop ...

Justin Morgenroth

Associate Professor

Forestry

Fields of Research:

- Structure, function, value, and ecosystem services of urban forests
- Effect of development ...

Radnya Mukhedkar

Director

EPE Centre

Fields of Research:

- HVDC & FACTS : modelling, control and interaction
- Power system : modelling, design and ...

Billy O'Steen

Associate Professor

Community Engagement

Fields of Research:

- Experiential education
- Teacher education
- Professional development
- Service-learning
- Student ...

Lucie Ozanne

Professor

Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship

Fields of Research:

- Transformative Consumer Research
- Sharing Economy
- Community Resilience
- Corporate social ...

Markus Pahlow

Senior Lecturer

Water Engineering

Fields of Research:

- Engineering Hydrology
- Water Resources Management
- Sustainable Development

Rebecca Peer

Lecturer

Civil Systems Engineering

Fields of Research:

- Sustainability
- Energy systems
- Water systems
- Climate change
- Data science

Katie Pickles

Professor (History) / James Cook Research Fellow

Fields of Research:

- Women's and feminist New Zealand history
- Kate Sheppard and Women's Suffrage
- Heroines in ...

Michael Plank

Professor

Mathematics and Statistics

Fields of Research:

- Mathematical modelling of complex biological and social systems
- Ecological and social ...

Girish Prayag

Professor

Fields of Research:

- Consumption experiences in marketing
- Interested in tourism, airline and hospitality ...

Kate Prendergast

Post Doctoral Fellow

The Sustainable Citizenship and Civic Imagination Research Group

Fields of Research:

- Wellbeing
- Sustainability
- Social research
- Health and lifestyle
- Children and youth

Tara Ross

Senior Lecturer

Journalism / Internships Co-ordinator

Fields of Research:

- Journalism
- Alternative/ethnic minority media
- Pacific media and audiences
- Representation of ...

Dr Matt Scobie

Lecturer

Research Interests:

My research interests are broadly around exploring ways to hold organisations, businesses and governments accountable for their social, environmental, ...

Seb Pitman

Coastal Geomorphology, Physical Geography

Fields of Research:

- Rip currents
- Swash processes
- Coastal erosion
- Beach dynamics
- Storm response
- Coastal ...

Sara Tolbert

Associate Professor

Education

Fields of Research:

- Science education curriculum and pedagogy (primary and secondary)
- Contextualised science ...

Ekant Veer

Professor

Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship

Fields of Research:

- Social Media
- Transformative Consumer Research
- Earthquake research
- Social Marketing and ...

Matthew Wilson

Professor

Geospatial Research Institute

Fields of Research:

- Surface water hydrology
- Flood risk
- River science
- Water resources
- Impacts of climate ...

Tom Wilson

Professor

Disaster Risk and Resilience

Fields of Research:

- Natural Hazard Risk Assessment
- Disaster Risk & Resilience
- Disaster Risk Reduction
- Risk ...

Institute of Law, Emergencies and Disasters (LEAD)

Sustainable Development, Citizenship and Civic Imagination: Hei Puāwaitanga