Last updated: 10 August 2021

CURRICULUM VITAE

Christine Eriksen, PhD FRGS

Centre for Security Studies, ETH Zürich, Haldeneggsteig 4, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland, [email protected]

Education Doctor of Philosophy in Human Geography (Awarded 17 December 2010) Thesis title: Playing with fire? Bushfire and everyday life in changing rural landscapes in University of , Australia Master of Arts in Human Geography with Distinction (Awarded 1 December 2004) Thesis title: Why do they burn the bush? Fire as a land management tool in Zambia King’s College , University of London, United Kingdom Bachelor of Arts with Joint Honours in Geography and Social Anthropology (Awarded 31 July 2003) School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, United Kingdom Certificate in English Language Teaching for Adults (CELTA) (Awarded 2006) South Thames College, United Kingdom Oxford Cambridge RSA Level 3 Certificate in Off-Site Safety Management (Awarded 2005) Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers), United Kingdom Certificate in Natural History (Awarded 2000) Centre for Continuing Education, Edinburgh University, United Kingdom

Professional Appointments August 2020 - Ongoing: Senior Researcher, Centre for Security Studies (CSS) ETH Zürich, Switzerland August 2020 – Ongoing: Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Geography and Sustainable Communities , Australia May 2018 – July 2020: Senior Lecturer (tenured), School of Geography and Sustainable Communities University of Wollongong, Australia December 2019: Visiting Scholar, Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research (COPE) University of Copenhagen, Denmark Autumn 2019: Visiting Scholar, Geography Division, School of Environment, Education and Development University of Manchester, England Summer 2019: Visiting Scholar, Centre for Security Studies (CSS) ETH Zürich, Switzerland 2015 – 2018: Senior Research Fellow, Australian Research Council DECRA-awarded Fellowship University of Wollongong, Australia 2013 – 2015: Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER) & Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires (CERMB), University of Wollongong, Australia Spring 2011: Visiting Scholar, Department of Geography and Planning California State University, Chico, California, USA 2010 – 2012: Associate Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental of Wollongong, Australia 2006: In-Country Supervisor, Sustainable Development & Community Enterprise Initiative Sindisa Foundation, Ibo Island, Mozambique 2004 – 2006: Training and Administration Officer, Expedition Advisory Centre Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers, United Kingdom Curriculum Vitae: Dr Christine Eriksen

Publications Books Eriksen, C. and Ballard, S. (2020) Alliances in the Anthropocene: Fire, Plants and People. : Palgrave Macmillan Pivot. Eriksen, C. (2014) Gender and Wildfire: Landscapes of Uncertainty. New York: Routledge.

Book Chapters Eriksen, C. (In Press) ‘Fire.’ In N. Wallenhorst and C. Wulf (Eds.), Handbook of the Anthropocene. Singapore: Springer Nature. Eriksen, C. & Herzog, S. (In Press) ‘Nuclear Waste.’ In N. Wallenhorst and C. Wulf (Eds.), Handbook of the Anthropocene. Singapore: Springer Nature. Eriksen, C. & Turnbull, J. (In Press) ‘Insure the Volume? Sensing air, atmospheres and radiation in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.’ In K. Booth, C. Lucas, & S. French (Eds.), Climate, Society and Elemental Insurance, Routledge. New York: Routledge. McKinnon, S., Eriksen, C. & de Vet, E. (In Press) ‘Between Absence and Presence: Questioning the value of insurance for bushfire recovery.’ In K. Booth, C. Lucas, & S. French (Eds.), Climate, Society and Elemental Insurance. New York: Routledge. Reimer, R. & Eriksen, C. (In Press). Mountain Leadership in Canada: Examining the impacts of gender, safety and climate change. In A. Fletcher & M. Reed (Eds.), Gender and the Social Dimensions of Climate Change: Rural and Resource Contexts of the Global North. New York: Routledge. Lakhina, S. J. & Eriksen, C. (In Press). Seeking Safe Refuge in Regional Australia: Experiences of hazards and practices of safety among women from refugee backgrounds. In A. Fletcher & M. Reed (Eds.), Gender and the Social Dimensions of Climate Change: Rural and Resource Contexts of the Global North. New York: Routledge. Dominey-Howes, D., McKinnon, S., Gorman-Murray, A. & Eriksen, C. (In Press) ‘Sexual and Gender Minorities in Disasters: A review of current knowledge and future research needs.’ In Handbook of Environmental Hazards and Society, eds. McGree, T. & Penning-Rowsell, E. New York: Routledge. Towers, B., Christianson, A. & Eriksen, C. (2019) ‘The Impacts of Wildfire on Children.’ In Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires, eds. S. Manzello. Cham: Springer. McGee, T. & Eriksen, C. (2018) ‘Defensive Actions and People Preparedness.’ In Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires, eds. S. Manzello. Cham: Springer. Eriksen, C. & Waitt, G. (2016) ‘Men, Masculinities and Wildfire: Embodied Resistance and Rupture.’ In Men, Masculinities and Disaster, eds. E. Enarson and B. Pease. Chapter 6, pp.69-80. New York: Routledge. Eriksen, C. & Hankins, D. (2015) ‘Colonisation and Fire: Gendered Dimensions of Indigenous Fire Knowledge Retention and Revival.’ In The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development, eds. A. Coles, L. Gray & J. Momsen. Chapter 14, pp.129-137. New York: Routledge. Prior, T. & Eriksen, C. (2012) ‘What does being “well-prepared” for bushfire mean?’ In Wildfire and community: Facilitating preparedness and resilience, eds. D. Paton & F. Tedim. Chapter 10. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas Publisher. Eriksen, C. & Adams, M. (2010) ‘Indigenous Environmental Knowledge.’ In Encyclopaedia of Geography, eds. B. Warf. pp.1564-1567. Sage Publications.

Peer Reviewed Articles Dunn Cavelty, M., Eriksen, C. & Scharte, B. (In Review) ‘When Cyber Security is not Enough: Socio-technical perspectives on cyber resilience’, Journal of Cyber Resilience. McKinnon, S. & Eriksen, C. (2021) ‘Treasures in the Rubble: Memory, home and their (un)making in bushfire.’ Social and Cultural Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2021.1939127 Eriksen, C. & de Vet, E. (2021) ‘Untangling Insurance, Rebuilding, and Wellbeing in Bushfire Recovery.’ Geographical Research, 59(2), pp.228-241.

2/11 Curriculum Vitae: Dr Christine Eriksen de Vet, E., Eriksen, C. & McKinnon, S. (2021) Dilemmas, Decision-Making, and Disasters: Emotions of parenting, safety, and rebuilding in bushfire recovery. Area, 53(2), pp.283-291. Eriksen, C., G. Simon, F. Roth, S. J. Lakhina, B. Wisner, C. Adler, F. Thomalla, A. Scolobig, K. Brady, M. Bründl, F. Neisser, M. Grenfell, L. Maduz & T. Prior (2020) ‘Rethinking the Interplay between Affluence and Vulnerability to aid Climate Change Adaptive Capacity.’ Climatic Change, 162(1), pp.25-39. Eriksen, C., McKinnon, S. & de Vet, E. (2020) ‘Why Insurance Matters: Insights from research post-disaster.’ Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 35(4), pp.42-47. de Vet, E. & Eriksen, C. (2019) ‘When Insurance and Goodwill are not Enough: Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) Ratings, Risk Calculations and Disaster Resilience in Australia’, Australian Geographer, 51(1), pp.35-51. Eriksen, C. (2019) ‘Coping, Caring and Believing: The Embodied Work of Disaster Recovery Workers’, Emotion, Space and Society, 32(100592), (Open Access). de Vet, E., Eriksen, C., Booth, K. & French, S. (2019) ‘An Unmitigated Disaster: Shifting from response and recovery to mitigation for an insurable future’, International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 10(2), pp.179-192 (Open Access). Reimer, R. & Eriksen, C. (2018) ‘The Wildfire Within: Gender, leadership, and wildland fire culture’, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 27, pp.715-726, (Open Access). Eriksen, C. (2019) ‘Negotiating Adversity with Humour: A Case Study of Wildland Firefighter Women’, Political Geography, 68, 139-145 (Open Access). Sword-Daniels, V., Eriksen, C., Hudson-Doyle, E., Alaniz, R., Adler, C., Schenk, T. & Vallance, S. (2018) ‘Embodied Uncertainty: Living with Complexity and Natural Hazards’, Journal of Risk Research, 21(3), pp.290- 307 (Open Access). Eriksen, C. & Wilkinson, C. (2017) ‘Examining Perceptions of Luck in Post-bushfire Sense-making in Australia’, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 24, pp.242-250. Penman, T., Eriksen, C., Horsey, B., Green, A., Cooper, P. & Bradstock, R. (2017) ‘Retrofitting for Wildfire Resilience: What is the Cost?’, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 21, pp.1-10. Eriksen, C. & Simon, G. (2017) ‘The Affluence-Vulnerability Interface: Intersecting Scales of Risk, Privilege and Disaster’, Environment and Planning A, 49(2), pp.293-313, (Open Access). Eriksen, C. (2016) ‘Research Ethics, Trauma and Self-care: Reflections on Disaster Geographies’, Australian Geographer, 48(2), pp.273-278. Eriksen, C., G. Waitt, & C. Wilkinson. (2016) ‘Gendered Dynamics of Wildland Firefighting in Australia.’ Society and Natural Resources, 29(11), pp.1296-1310. Eriksen, C., Penman, T., Horsey, B., & Bradstock, R. (2016) 'Wildfire Survival Plans in Theory and Practice', International Journal of Wildland Fire, 25(4), pp.363-377. Penman, T., Eriksen, C., Horsey, B., & Bradstock, R. (2016) 'How Much Does it Cost Residents to Prepare their Property for Wildfire?', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 16, pp.88-98. Whittaker, J., Eriksen, C. & Haynes, K. (2016) ‘Gendered responses to the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia’, Geographical Research, 54(2), pp.203-215. Wilkinson, C., Eriksen, C. & Penman T. (2016) ‘Into the Firing Line: Civilian Ingress during the 2013 ‘‘ Red October ’’ Bushfires, Australia. Natural Hazards, 80(1), pp.521-538. Wilkinson, C. & Eriksen, C. (2015) ‘Fire, Water and Everyday Life: Bushfire and household defence in a changing climate’, Fire Safety Journal, 78, pp.102-110. Eriksen, C. & Ditrich, T. (2015) ‘The relevance of mindfulness practice for trauma-exposed disaster researchers’, Emotion Space and Society, 17, pp.63-69. Gill, N., Dun, O., Brennan-Horley, C., & Eriksen, C. (2015) 'Landscape Preferences, Amenity and Bushfire Risk in , Australia', Environmental Management, 56(3), pp.738-753. Eriksen, C. & Hankins, D. (2014) ‘The Retention, Revival and Subjugation of Indigenous Fire Knowledge through Agency Fire Fighting in Eastern Australia and California, USA’, Society and Natural Resources, 27(12), pp.1288-1303.

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Eriksen, C. & Head, L. (2014) ‘Guest Editorial: Geographical Fire Research in Australia – Review and Prospects’, Geographical Research, 52(1), pp.1-5. Eriksen, C. (2014) ‘Gendered Risk Engagement: Challenging the Embedded Vulnerability, Social Norms and Power Relations in Conventional Australian Bushfire Education’, Geographical Research, 52(1), pp.23-33. The World Social Science (WSS) fellows on Risk Interpretation and Action: Doyle, Khan, Adler, Alaniz, Athayde, Lin, Saunders, Schenk, Sosa-Rodriguez, Sword-Daniels, Akanle, Baudoin, Chang, De Bruin, Djalante, Eriksen, Lee, Mishra, Okorie, Olanya, Perlaviciute, Ruiz-Rivera, Vallance, Xie, and Yin. (2014) ‘Reporting on the Seminar - Risk Interpretation and Action (RIA): Decision Making Under Conditions of Uncertainty’, Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, 18(1), pp.27-37. Prior, T. & Eriksen, C. (2013) ‘Wildfire Preparedness, Community Cohesion and Social-Ecological Systems’, Global Environmental Change, 23(6), pp.1575-1586. Eriksen, C. & Prior, T. (2013) ‘Defining the Importance of Mental Preparedness for Risk Communication and Residents Well-Prepared for Wildfire’, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 6, pp.87-97. Penman, T.D., C. Eriksen, R. Blanchi, M. Chladil, A.M. Gill, K. Haynes, J. Leonard, J. McLennan, R.A. Bradstock (2013) ‘Defining Adequate Means of Residents to Prepare Property for Protection from Wildfire’, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 6, pp.67-77. Gill, N., Adams, M. & Eriksen, C. (2012) ‘Engaging with the (Un)Familiar: Field Teaching in a Multi-Campus Teaching Environment’, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 36(2), pp.259-275. Eriksen, C. & Prior, T. (2011) ‘The Art of Learning: Wildfire, Amenity Migration and Local Environmental Knowledge’, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 20(4), pp.612-624. Eriksen, C., Gill, N. & Bradstock, R (2011) ‘Trial by Fire: Natural Hazards, Mixed-Methods and Cultural Research’, Australian Geographer, 42(1), pp.19-40. Eriksen, C. & Gill, N. (2010) ‘Bushfire and Everyday Life: Examining the Awareness – Action ‘Gap ’in Changing Rural Landscapes’, Geoforum, 41(5), pp.814-825. Eriksen, C., Gill, N. & Head, L. (2010) ‘The Gendered Dimensions of Bushfire in Changing Rural Landscapes in Australia’, Journal of Rural Studies, 26(4), pp.332-342. Eriksen, C. (2009) ‘Fired Up? Bushfire Awareness and Preparedness amongst Diverse Rural Landowners’, South Australian Geographer, 24(2), pp.14-17. Eriksen, C. (2007) ‘Why do They Burn the ‘Bush’? Fire, Rural Livelihoods, and Conservation in Zambia’, Geographical Journal, 173(3), pp.242-256.

Other Academic Publications Eriksen, C & Hauri, A. (2021) ‘Climate Change in the Swiss Alps’, CSS Analyses in Security Policy, No. 290. ETH Zürich. Eriksen, C., Hauri, A., Thiel, J. & Scharte, B. (2021) ‘An Evaluation of Switzerland becoming a Participating State of the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism’, CSS Risk and Resilience Report, ETH Zürich. Simon, G. & Eriksen, C. (2021) ‘The Unequal Social Consequences of Wildfire Smoke in California’, Bay Nature, 20 April 2021. Eriksen, C. (2020) ‘'s Fiery Future: Rethinking Wildfire Policy’, CSS Policy Perspective, 8/12, ETH Zürich. Booth, K., Lucas, C. & Eriksen, C. (2021) ‘Underinsurance is entrenching poverty as the vulnerable are hit hardest by disasters.’ The Conversation, 4 February 2021. Lucas, C., Eriksen, C. & Bowman, D. (2020) ‘A crisis of underinsurance threatens to scar rural Australia permanently.’ The Conversation, 7 January 2020. Eriksen, C. (2019) ‘Human vulnerability to ‘natural’ disasters: A case study of Hurricane Katrina’, Geography Review, 33(2) pp.2-5. Haworth, B., Eriksen, C., & McKinnon, S. (2019) ‘Online tools can help people in disasters, but do they represent everyone?’ The Conversation, 29 May 2019.

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Lakhina, S.J., Eriksen, C., Thompson, J., Aldunate, R., McLaren, J. & Reddy, S. (2019) ‘Case Study: People from refugee backgrounds contribute to a disaster-resilient ’, Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 34(2), pp.19-20. Eriksen, C., McKinnon, S., Towers, B., Calgaro, E., Haynes, K., Richardson, J., & Avianto, A. (2018) ‘Children aren’t liabilities in disasters – they can help, if we let them.’ The Conversation, 4 April 2018. Roth, F., Eriksen, C., & Prior, T. (2017) ‘Understanding the root causes of natural disasters.’ The Conversation, 27 June 2017. Lakhina, S.J. & Eriksen, C. (2017) ‘Resilient Together: Engaging the knowledge and capacities of refugees for a disaster-resilient Illawarra’. In Migrants in Disaster Risk Reduction: Practices for Inclusion, (ed.) L. Guadagno, M. Fuhrer and J. Twigg. Geneva: United Nations. Association for Fire Ecology – expert committee (2016) ‘Position Paper: Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination in Wildland Fire Management’, with accompanying info-graphic and copy of invited written testimony to US Congressional Hearing, http://www.fireecology.org/page-1807009. Eriksen, C. (2016) Book Review: ‘Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction by F. Krüger et al.’, Geographical Research, 54(2), pp.226-227. Whittaker, J., Eriksen, C., & Haynes, K. (2015) ‘More men die in bushfires: How gender affects how we plan and respond.’ The Conversation, 26 November 2015. Booth, K., Tranter, B., and Eriksen, C. (2015) ‘Properties under fire: why so many Australians are inadequately insured against disaster’, The Conversation, 20 November 2015. Eriksen, C. (2015) ‘Wildfires in Australia’, Geography Review, 28(4), centrepiece pp.20-21. Eriksen, C. (2014) ‘Gender and Wildfire: Landscapes of Uncertainty’, Wildfire Magazine, 23(1), pp.14-18. Bradstock, R., Penman, T. Price, O., Penman, S., Gill, N., Eriksen, C., Dun, O., Brennan-Horley, C., & Wilkinson, C. (2014) ‘Life on the Edge – Living with Risk’, Fire Note, Issue 129, Aug. 2014. Eriksen, C. (2013) ‘War Cry’, Current Conservation, 7(1), pp.36-37. Eriksen, C. & Hankins, D. (2013) ‘Gendered Dimensions of Aboriginal Australian and California Indian Fire Knowledge Retention and Revival’, Current Conservation, 7(1), pp.22-26. Eriksen, C. (2012) Book Review: ‘The Atlas of Women in the World ’by Joni Seager. New Zealand Geographer, 68, pp.143-144. Eriksen, C. (2012) Book Review: ‘Women in Leadership: Contextual Dynamics and Boundaries ’by Karin Klenke. Gender, Place and Culture, 19(3), pp.398-400. Eriksen, C. (2009) Opinion piece on ‘Learning from bushfires’, The Guardian Weekly, 27 February, p.23.

Professional Services and Memberships 2019 – Present: Associate Editor, Fire 2017 – 2020: Committee Member for Humanities & Social Sciences Research Ethics, Uni. of Wollongong 2019 & 2014: Expert Panel Reviewer for the Swedish Research Council FORMAS of funding proposals 2015 – 2016: Expert Committee Member for Association for Fire Ecology, ‘Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment in the Wildland Fire Profession’. 2014 – 2016: Co-founder and Chair of the Hazards, Risks and Disasters Study Group, Institute of Australian Geographers 2011 – 2012: Steering Committee Member for ‘Weather the Storm: Women Prepare’, a project of the National Rural Women’s Coalition. The Weather the Storm kit – aimed at supporting women to prepare for disasters and emergencies - received a highly commended award at the 2013 Resilient Australia Awards. 2010 – Present: Peer Reviewer for refereed journals: Progress in Human Geography, Geoforum, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Emotion Space & Society, Disaster Prevention and Management, Journal of Rural Studies, International Journal of Wildland Fire, Society and Natural Resources, Gender Place & Culture, Third World Quarterly, Health and Place, Australian Journal of Emergency Management

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2001 – Present: Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers 2007 – 2020: Member of the Institute of Australian Geographers 2007 – 2009: Council Member, Geographical Society of New South Wales

Grants and Awards External 2018 Swiss National Science Foundation: ‘Disasters and Social Vulnerability in Affluent Societies International Expert Workshop’, Co-Investigator ($26,102) 2018 Highly Commended - Resilient Australia Awards (Business Category), ‘Resilient Together: Engaging the Knowledge and Capacities of Refugees for a Disaster Resilient Illawarra – ’a collaborative project with Wollongong City Council, NSW Rural Fire Service, Illawarra Multicultural Services, Multicultural Communities Council of Illawarra, Strategic Community Assistance to Refugee Families, NSW State Emergency Service, Shellharbour City Council, Kiama Municipal Council, Australian Red Cross, Masjid As-Salaam Berkeley, Multicultural NSW, awarded by the Australian Government 2017 NSW Office of Emergency Management Community Resilience Innovation Program: ‘Resilient Together: Engaging the Knowledge and Capacities of Refugees for a Disaster Resilient Illawarra’, Principal Investigator ($40,836) 2017 – 2019 Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP170100096): ‘When Disaster Strikes: Under- insurance in an age of volatility’, Co-Investigator ($327,451) 2015 – 2018 Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE150101242): ‘Bushfires, faith and community cohesion: building a resilient Australia’, Sole-Investigator ($353,773) 2011 – 2014 Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre National Competitive Grant: ‘Co-existing with fire: managing risk and amenity at the rural- urban interface’, Co-Investigator ($283,000) 2013 – 2014 Wyong Shire Council Research Funding: ‘Retrofitting for resilience: co-existing with bushfire’, Principal-Investigator ($13,129) 2013 World Social Science Risk Interpretation and Action Fellow awarded by the International Social Science Council 2013 Highly Commended - Resilient Australia Awards (Community Category), ‘Weather the Storm: Women Prepare – ’a collaborative project with the National Rural Women’s Coalition, awarded by the Australian Government

Internal 2020 Global Challenges Seed Grant, University of Wollongong, ‘Bushfire preparedness, response and recovery in Kangaroo Valley, NSW’, Principal Investigator ($20,000) 2018 – 2019 Global Challenges Seed Grant, University of Wollongong, ‘Piloting Bushfires Plans: By the community, for the community’, Principal Investigator ($20,000) 2017 Research Impact Support Scheme, Faculty of Social Science, University of Wollongong, ‘Bushfires: Understanding vulnerability and building resilience through a gendered lens’, Sole-Investigator ($5,000) 2017 Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research Small Research Grant, ‘Disaster Resilient Cities’, Principal Investigator ($4,000) 2016 Selected as UOW Woman of Impact for outstanding contributions to research at the UOW as part of the Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) program (www.uow.edu.au/research/woi) 2016 Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research Small Research Grant, ‘Luck and Trauma in Disasters’, Sole-Investigator ($5,000) 2016 Global Challenges Seed Funding, ‘The Long View of Disasters’, Co-Investigator ($4,912) 2015 University of Wollongong Faculty of Social Sciences Early Career Researcher Prize ($5,000)

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2014 AUSCCER Small Research Grant, ‘Flame and fortune: the production and consumption of wildfire vulnerability in the Oakland Hills, CA’, Principal-Investigator ($4,400) 2013 University of Wollongong UCR Small Research Grant: ‘The role and place of women in bushfire management and fire fighting in Australia’, Sole-Investigator ($7,287) 2013 University of Wollongong UIC International Links Grant: ‘From the mountains to the sea: California-UOW teaching partnerships’, Principal-Investigator ($10,555)

Higher Degree Research Supervision Current 2019 – Present: Rachel Reimer (PhD, Human Geography, University of Wollongong) A comparative study of diversity, leadership and wellbeing among guiding and avalanche professionals in Canada and New Zealand, Principal Supervisor

Completed 2016 – 2020: Shefali Juneja Lakhina (PhD, Human Geography, University of Wollongong) Co-learning Disaster Resilience: A Person-centred Approach to Understanding Experiences of Refuge and Practices of Safety, Principal Supervisor 2016 – 2017: Rachel Reimer (MA, Leadership Studies, Royal Roads University) The Wildfire Within: Firefighter perspectives on gender and leadership in wildland fire, Co-supervisor 2014 – 2015: Lucy Apps (Honours, Biology, University of Wollongong) Alternative Bushfire Management Strategies: Community Fire Units, Co-supervisor

Teaching 2019 – 2020: GEOG251 Disaster Geographies: Risk, Policy, Management: Course coordinator, University of Wollongong 2016 – 2018: GEOG300 Directed Studies in Geography and Sustainable Communities: Course coordinator, University of Wollongong 2016: GEOG222 Environmental Impact of Societies: ‘Marginalisation and unequal risk in disasters: building coping capacity’, University of Wollongong (invited guest lecturer) 2015: INDS130 Introduction to Indigenous Studies: ‘Indigenous Fire Knowledge’, University of Wollongong (invited guest lecture) 2012 – 2014: ENVI923 Environmental Planning: ‘Wildfire hazards and risk engagement in environmental planning’, University of Wollongong (invited guest lecturer) 2011, 2013: GEOG445 Pyro-Geography: ‘Understand how communities mitigate for living in fire-prone regions’, California State University, Chico (invited guest lecturer) 2009, 2013: EESC307 Spaces, Places and Identities: Qualitative Research Design: Teaching Assistant for workshops on ‘Research design and comprehension of qualitative methods’, University of Wollongong 2010: EESC308 Environment and Heritage Management: ‘Bushfire and the politics of blame’, University of Wollongong (invited guest lecturer) 2008 – 2010: ARTS201 Regional Australia: Society and Environment: Outdoor leader for intensive field-based study-abroad course, University of Wollongong 2007: CRICOS 069912A Introduction to Academic Studies, Teacher, University of Wollongong College

Papers, Panels and Invited Lectures (since 2012) 09/2021 ‘Tracing Unnatural Disasters: An Environmental History of Wildfires and Radioactive Contamination’, Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers Annual International Conference, London, UK

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03/2021 ‘Tracing Unnatural Disasters: Sensing Wildfires, Atmospheres and Radiation in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone’, public seminar to the California Fire Science Seminar Series, UC Berkeley / UC Merced, California, USA [https://youtu.be/yMjpkBa4_3Y] [Invited] 12/2019 ‘Tracing Unnatural Disasters: A Case Study of Fire’, public seminar at the Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research (COPE), University of Copenhagen, Denmark [Invited] 11/2019 ‘Wildfires, Insurance and Recovery in the Blue Mountains, Australia’, The England & Wales Wildfire Forum 2019 Wildfire Conference, Cardiff, Wales, UK [Invited] 10/2019 ‘The Rise of the Phoenix: Gender Equity in the Wildfire Profession’, public seminar at the Humanitarian and Conflict Research Institute, University of Manchester, UK [Invited] 08/2019 ‘Wildfires, Insurance and Recovery in the Blue Mountains, Australia’, Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers Annual International Conference, London, UK 07/2019 ‘Rethinking the Interplay between Vulnerability and Affluence for Disaster Resilience’, colloquium at the Centre for Security Studies, ETH Zürich, Switzerland 02/2019 ‘The Rise of the Phoenix: Gender Equity in Wildland Fire’, guest seminar at the Fire Centre, , Hobart, Australia [Invited] 12/2018 Opening Plenary Keynote‘ The Rise of the Phoenix: Gender Equity in Wildland Fire’, 15th Int. Wildland Fire Safety Summit & 5th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference, Asheville, NC, USA [Invited] 12/2018 Plenary Panel‘ Rethinking Fire: Indigenous Fire Knowledge and Cultural Burning’, 15th Int. Wildland Fire Safety Summit & 5th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference, Asheville, NC, USA [Invited] 09/2018 ‘Between Three Fires: Wildfire, Gender and Social Change’, guest seminar, Kulturgeografiska Institutionen, Stockholm University, Sweden [Invited] 07/2018 ‘Bushfires, Insurance and Recovery in the Blue Mountains, NSW’, Institute of Australian Geographers/New Zealand Geographical Society Joint-Conference, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand 04/2018 ‘Coping, Caring and Believing: The Embodied Work of Disaster Recovery Workers’, Association of American Geographers Conference, New Orleans, LA, USA 12/2017 ‘Marginalisation and Unequal Risk in Disasters: Transforming Vulnerable Communities ’(paper + panel), Global Challenges Transforming Vulnerability Conference, University of Wollongong, Australia [Invited] 08/2017 ‘Embodied Uncertainty: Living with Complexity and Natural Hazards’, Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers Annual International Conference, London, UK 07/2017 ‘Research Ethics, Trauma and Self-care: Reflections from Disaster Geography’, Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, , QLD, Australia 04/2017 ‘Using Humour to Navigate the Gendered Terrain of Wildland Firefighting ’(paper), ‘Research Ethics, Trauma and Self-care: Reflections from Disaster Geography ’(paper), ‘Reflections on Ethics in Human Geography ’(panel), Association of American Geographers Conference, Boston, MA, USA 12/2016 ‘Disaster Researcher Trauma, Training and Self-care’, recorded public seminar on Painful Memories: Interviewing Survivors of Trauma organised by Oral History NSW, , NSW, Australia [Invited] 10/2016 ‘Climate Change Q&A Panel’, public event for www.globalclimatechangeweek.com, Wollongong, NSW, Australia [Invited] 05/2016 ‘Into the Firing Line: Civilian Ingress during the 2013 Red October Fires’, Australian Community Engagement and Fire Awareness Conference, Albury, NSW, Australia 04/2016 ‘Men, Masculinities and Wildfire: Embodied Resilience and Rupture’, Association of American Geographers Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA, Australia 04/2016 ‘Discussant: Researcher Trauma and Self-Care’, Association of American Geographers Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA 11/2015 Opening Plenary Panel‘ An Exploration of Gender Equality and Sexual Harassment Issues in the Wildland Fire Profession’, 6th Int. Fire Ecology & Management Congress, San Antonio, TX, USA [Invited] 07/2015 ‘Wildfire Hazards ’panellist, 40th Annual Natural Hazards Workshop, Broomfield, CO, USA

8/11 Curriculum Vitae: Dr Christine Eriksen

07/2015 ‘Affluence, Privilege and Vulnerability: Exploring the Connections in the Aftermath of the 1991 Oakland Hills Firestorm’, Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, 2015, , ACT, Australia 04/2015 ‘Affluence, Privilege and Vulnerability: Exploring the Connections ’(panel), ‘Grieving Witnesses: The Politics of Grief in the Field ’(panel), Association of American Geographers Conference, Chicago, IL, USA 03/2015 ‘Between Three Fires: Bushfire, Gender and Social Change’, Thinking Space Seminar, School of Geosciences, , NSW, Australia [Invited] 10/2014 ‘Mental Health, Vicarious Trauma, and Self Care for Disaster Researchers’, Red Cross Disaster Self Care Forum, University of , VIC, Australia [Invited] 08/2014 ‘Gender and Wildfire: Toeing the Line or Breaking the Glass Ceiling’, Women and Fire Fighting Australasia 5th Biennial Conference, Canberra, ACT, Australia [Invited] 07/2014 Plenary Keynote: ‘Gender and Wildfire: Landscapes of Uncertainty’, Emergency Management Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia [Invited] 05/2014 ‘Making Sure Collective Thought Occurs Around Planning’, Australian Community Engagement and Fire Awareness Conference 2014, Wollongong, NSW, Australia [Invited] 04/2014 Author-Meets-Critics: ‘Gender and Wildfire: Landscapes of Uncertainty’, Association of American Geographers Conference, Tampa, FL, USA 03/2014 ‘Gender and Wildfire: Landscapes of Uncertainty at the Wildland-Urban Interface of Southeast Australia and the US West Coast’, American Society for Environmental History Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA 08/2013 ‘The Retention, Revival and Subjugation of Indigenous Fire Knowledge through Agency Firefighting’, International Geographical Union 2013 Regional Conference in Kyoto, Japan 07/2013 Plenary Keynote: ‘Gender and Wildfire: Landscapes of Uncertainty’, Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, University of , Perth, WA, Australia 04/2013 ‘Gender and Wildfire at the Wildland-Urban Interface’, Association of American Geographers Conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA 03/2013 ‘Gender and Wildfire at the Wildland-Urban Interface’, Public Seminar, California State University, Chico, USA [Invited] 10/2012 ‘Women, Social Networks and Bushfire Risk Resilience’, RMIT University Symposium ‘Communities and Resilience: A focus on social networks for disaster preparedness’, Melbourne, VIC, Australia [Invited] 08/2012 ‘Gender and Wildfire at the Wildland-Urban Interface: A Comparative Study of New South Wales and California’, Australasian Fire & Emergency Services Authorities Council Conference, Perth, WA, Australia 07/2012 ‘The Enigma of Bushfire Preparedness’, Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, , Sydney, NSW, Australia 03/2012 Invited panel speaker at ‘Identifying the Hidden Disaster: the first Australian conference on natural disasters and family violence’, Melbourne, VIC, Australia [Invited] 04/2012 ‘Living with Wildfire at the Wildland-Urban Interface: A Comparative Study of California and New South Wales’, 3rd International Associate of Wildland Fire’s Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference, Seattle, WA, USA

Organised Sessions and Symposia (since 2012) 08/2019 Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers Annual International Conference: ‘When Disaster Strikes: Insurance, Coping Capacity and Climate Change’, London, UK. 08/2018 International expert workshop on ‘Disasters and Social Vulnerability in Affluent Societies’, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and hosted with collaborators at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. 07/2018 Institute of Australian Geographers/New Zealand Geographical Society 2018 Joint-Conference: ‘When Disaster Strikes: Insurance in Theory and Praxis’, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. 04/2018 Association of American Geographers 2018 Conference: ‘Faith, Conflict and Care in Crisis and Disaster Recovery’, New Orleans, LA, USA.

9/11 Curriculum Vitae: Dr Christine Eriksen

08/2017 Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers Annual International Conference: ‘Research Trauma: Dealing with traumatic research content and places’, London, UK. 04/2016 Association of American Geographers 2016 Conference, ‘Researcher Trauma and Self-Care’, San Francisco, CA, USA. 07/2015 Institute of Australian Geographers 2015 Conference, ‘Hazards, Risks and Disasters’, Canberra, ACT. 04/2015 Association of American Geographers 2015 Conference: ‘Affluence, Privilege and Vulnerability: Exploring the Connections’, Chicago, IL, USA. 07/2014 Institute of Australian Geographers 2014 Conference: ‘Geographies of Hazards, Risks, Disasters’, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. 04/2014 Association of American Geographers 2014 Conference: ‘Author-meets-critics: Gender and Wildfire: Landscapes of Uncertainty’, Tampa, FL, USA. 07/2013 Institute of Australian Geographers 2013 Conference: Panel session: ‘Co-Existing with Fire: Insights from Australia’, Perth, WA, Australia. 04/2013 Association of American Geographers 2013 Conference: ‘The Gendered Dimensions of Disasters’, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 07/2012 Institute of Australian Geographers 2012 Conference: ‘Connecting Disaster Research and Practice for Risk Reduction’, Sydney, NSW, Australia. 03/2012 Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, UOW Seminar Series and Special Workshop with disaster sociologist and gender expert Dr Elaine Enarson (USA).

Media Interviews 22 July 2021, Deutsche Welle, Climate change is here — not on its way. DW’s Living Planet radio show. 26 February 2021, NPR, As Fires Worsen, A Mental Health Crisis For Those Battling Them. 16 February 2021, NPR, Why Firefighters Are Facing A Growing Mental Health Challenge. 4 December 2020, Deutsche Welle (DW) Planet A, Wildfires explained: Solutions to stop the world from burning. 16 January 2020, Interview on the Australian bushfire crisis for the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Ask the Geographer podcast series. 9 January 2020, Mashable, Why Australia won't escape its vicious fire spiral. 19 November 2019, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), filmed expert interview on wildfire for the second season of the BBC Earth series Deadly Disasters. 4 June 2019, ABC Radio Illawarra, Glocals – a focus on UOW academic Dr Christine Eriksen (Live Radio). 11 April 2019, ABC Radio Illawarra Drive, Dealing with disasters with diversity in mind (Live Radio). Dec 2018, Recorded television interview with Chinese News Network CGTN during my visit with Camp Fire survivors in Paradise, California. 28 Nov 2018, ABC Radio Brisbane, Psychological factors that impact bushfire evacuations (Live Radio). March 2017, Retrofitting for bushfire resilience, Live radio interviews with ABC Central Coast and ABC South- east, recorded TV interview with WIN Illawarra, UOW media release, article in The Stand. 28 Oct 2016, 97.3 ABC Illawarra, The psychology of bushfire preparedness (Live Radio). 23 Nov 2015 ABC Statewide Drive NSW, Why aren’t Australians adequately insuring their homes against disaster? (Live Radio). 16 Aug 2014, Sydney Morning Herald, Tackling the fire threat on the home front (Newspaper). 15 Aug 2014, 666 ABC Canberra, Female firefighters still facing professional challenges (Online News). 13 Aug 2014, 666 ABC Radio Canberra, Women and firefighting (Live Radio). 3 July 2014, 774 ABC Radio Melbourne, Why gender matters in emergency management (Live Radio)

10/11 Curriculum Vitae: Dr Christine Eriksen

1 Dec 2013, , Gender roles raise fatal fire risk (Newspaper). 27 Aug 2012, 97.3 ABC Radio Illawarra, How prepared are we for bushfire? (Live Radio).

Languages English — fluent oral and written skills (mother tongue) Danish — fluent oral and written skills (mother tongue) German — B1 reading and listening, A2 written and oral skills (actively working on improving these skills!) French — beginners upper secondary school written and oral skills

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