Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Disaster Risk Management Practices

This scholarship aims to provide financial assistance to a PhD student who is undertaking research that includes people with disability. The scholarship is supported by a grant from the ARC Linkage Project entitled 'Disaster risk reduction practices that leave nobody behind' and the University of Sydney. The research should focus on the unique needs of people with a disability in situations of natural hazards and other emergencies, including the capabilities and support needs of people with disability, their family and carers in emergency situations; the role, capacity and tools of community, health care, and disability support providers to contribute to disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction; and the role and contributions of emergency management to disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction for people with disability, their family and carers. The successful applicant will demonstrate background knowledge and experience in community services, health care, disability services, emergency management, and/or applied social sciences, and be able to undertake fieldwork placement and collaborate effectively with industry partners in communities where the research will take place.