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@bnhcrc www.bnhcrc.com.au Postgraduate research BUILDING RESEARCH CAPACITY This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International Licence. © Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre, August 2019 All material in this document, except as identified below, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Licence. Material not licensed under the Creative Commons licence: • Department of Industry, Innovation and Science logo • Cooperative Research Centres Programme logo • Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC logo • All photographs All content not licensed under the Creative Commons licence is all rights reserved. Permission must be sought from the copyright owner to use this material. Front cover photos, left to right, top to bottom: Yang Publisher: Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Chen; Kaitlyn Watson, Nicolas Borchers Arriagada, Research Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria Mitchell Humphreys, Li Zhao, Michael Storey, Rahul Disclaimer: The Bushfire and Natural Hazards Wadhwani, Mercy Ndalila, Dario Rodriguez-Cubillo Cooperative Research Centre advises that the and Maryam Nasim; Veronique Florec; Alan Green; information contained in this publication comprises Billy Haworth; current and former PhD students at general statements based on scientific research. the Research Advisory Forum in Hobart, 2016. The reader is advised and needs to be aware that Back cover photos, left to right, top to bottom: such information may be incomplete or unable Emma Singh; Liberty Pascua, Rahul Wadhwani; to be used in any specific situation. No reliance or Avianto Amri. actions must therefore be made on that information without seeking prior expert professional, scientific Front cover photo credits, left to right, top to and technical advice. To the extent permitted by bottom: Geoff Cary; David Bruce, Bushfire and law, the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Natural Hazards CRC; Veronique Florec; the Research Centre exclude all liability to any person University of Wollongong; Bushfire and Natural for any consequences, including but not limited to Hazards CRC; David Bruce, Bushfire and Natural all losses, damages, costs, expenses and any other Hazards CRC. compensation, arising directly or indirectly from Back cover photo credits, left to right, top to bottom: using this publication (in part or in whole) and any Emma Singh; Liberty Pascua; Nathan Maddock, information or material contained in it. Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC; Avianto Amri. 2 www.bnhcrc.com.au Research for our future As the world is becoming exposed to natural hazards that continue to increase in frequency and severity, it is more important than ever to provide decision makers with the evidence, information, and thought leadership to give them the tools they need to make the necessary critical decisions. Our demographics are changing, we are expanding our cities further into the bush and increasing our dependence on technologies – together these all intensify our exposure to risk. The economic, social infrastructure and environmental costs are forecast to rise at a rate unlike anything we have seen before, and is at risk of becoming unsustainable. We must continue to identify what we do not know, and to find ways to reduce the impacts of natural hazards. Our PhD research is one important piece of the solution. The CRC supports postgraduate students through a scholarship program, and as associate students – both programs provide students with the opportunity to engage with industry leaders, gain an understanding of the sector, and its opportunities and challenges. They are also invited to attend our events around Australia and New Zealand. Since 2013, we have been supporting the next generation of researchers – emerging leaders who will continue to ask the difficult questions, and who will be prepared for complex answers. The significant contributions that the 124 students already participating in these programs have made to the emergency management sector is a testament to the value of our student program, as well as each individual student. Significantly, 54 students have already completed their studies, with the remaining expected to finish over the next three years. This will represent a huge wealth of knowledge for Australia and New Zealand to draw upon, both within our universities, but also within our emergency services and land management agencies. I encourage you to take the time to look through this book and learn more about the work of our PhD researchers. There is plenty to discover. I’m sure you will agree with me that the foundations of a valuable research-enabled workforce are in place and the benefits from the research of our students will be obvious for years to come. Dr John Bates RESEARCH DIRECTOR BUSHFIRE AND NATURAL HAZARDS CRC Postgraduate research 1 Index = Graduated Built environment Bushfire predictive services Communications and warnings Anita Amirsardari 4 Mona Bahri 10 Kate Akers 19 Douglas Brown 4 Wasin Chaivaranont 10 Melanie Baker-Jones 19 Amila Dissanayake 4 Yang Chen 10 Shauntelle Benjamin 19 Ryan Hoult 5 James Furlaud 11 Peter Middleton 20 Akvan Gavanayake 6 Alexander Holmes 12 Cathy Cao 20 Alan Green 6 Vaibhav Gupta 13 Andrew Clarke 20 Mitchell Humphreys 6 Bryan Hally 13 Avianto Amri 21 Farook Kalendher 7 Andrea Massetti 13 Miles Crawford 22 Maryam Nasim 7 Mercy Ndalila 13 Gretel Evans 22 Ismail Qeshta 7 Greg Penney 14 Matthew Henry 22 Bambang Setiawan 7 Shahriar Rahman 14 Mayeda Rashid 23 Mittul Vahanvati 8 Sesa Singha Roy 14 Stephen Sutton 24 Zeinab Yazdanfar 8 Rachael Quill 15 Tony Jarrett 25 Alireza Zabihi 8 Rahul Wadhwani 16 Revathi Krishna 25 Korah Parackal 9 Philip Stewart 17 Benjamin Martin 25 Michael Storey 17 Prananda Navitas 26 Christopher Thomas 17 Kamarah Pooley 26 Chathura Wickramasinghe 18 Ken Strahan 26 Mengran Yu 18 Rachel Westcott 27 Yang Zhang 18 Kaitlyn Watson 28 Li Zhao 18 Economics and strategic Emergency management Flood and coastal management decisions capability Constanza Gonzalez-Mathieson 29 Karen Bradley 33 Antara Dasgupta 38 Roozbeh Hasanzadeh Nafari 29 Steven Curnin 33 Tom Fitzgerald 38 Charles Newland 29 Heather Bancroft 34 Timothy Ramm 39 Veronique Florec 30 Darryl Dixon 35 Ashley Wright 39 Lucy Ockenden 31 Stephen Glassey 35 James Ricketts 31 Lesley Gray 35 Graeme Riddell 32 Bruce Hankinson 36 Sarah Hall 36 Brianna Larsen 36 Sean Morling 37 Grace Vincent 37 Alex Wolkow 37 2 www.bnhcrc.com.au Governance and institutional Prescribed burning and Scenarios and loss analysis knowledge catchment management Graham Dwyer 40 Joji Abraham 46 Aeen Ashkani 51 Susan Hunt 40 Nicolas Borchers Arriagada 46 Amanda Chong 51 Liberty Pascua 41 Veronica Berjon 46 Thomas Kloetzke 51 George Carayannopoulos 42 Martyn Elliott 47 Emma Singh 52 Daniel May 43 Hannah Etchells 47 Tetsuya Okada 43 Jay Evans 47 Simone Ruane 44 Grigorijs Goldbergs 47 Caroline Wenger 45 Angela Gormley 48 Sam Hillman 48 Diana Kuchinke 48 Gabriela Raducan 49 Dario Rodriguez-Cubillo 49 Heather Simpson 49 Rene van der Sant 49 Sean Walsh 50 Houzhi Wang 50 Jane Williamson 50 Severe and high impact Sustainable volunteering Understanding and enhancing weather resilience Nicholas Read 53 Bill Calcutt 54 Raven Creteny 57 Vivien Forner 54 David Barton 57 Gemma Gray 54 Zoe D’Arcy 57 Fiona Jennings 55 Dolapo Fakuade 58 Nicholai Popov 55 Lauren Kosta 58 Billy Haworth 56 Megan O’Donnell 58 Mitchell Scovell 59 Hayley Squance 59 Kate van Wezel 60 Postgraduate research 3 Built environment of fire risk. Douglas examined which parts of Anita Amirsardari THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE their house residents might consider safer and most vulnerable during a bushfire and why. In Seismic assessment of reinforced order to investigate how particular aspects of concrete buildings in Australia the construction of a house influences residents’ including the response of gravity expectations of its performance during a bushfire, frames residents were asked which architecture, construction or design attributes they might ASSOCIATE STUDENT expect to improve the performance of a house DATE COMMENCED: JANUARY 2014 during a bushfire. DATE COMPLETED: AUGUST 2018 Douglas is a regular contributor to The Supervisors: A/Prof Helen Goldsworthy and Dr Conversation, runs his own consultancy, Bushfire Elisa Lumantarna Architecture, and teaches in the bushfire CRC link: Cost-effective mitigation strategy protection and construction management development for building related earthquake risk courses at Western Sydney University. Dr Anita Amirsardari’s PhD was completed in 2018 and assessed the seismic performance of reinforced concrete buildings under ten storeys Amila Dissanayake high and constructed prior to 1995. Findings RMIT UNIVERSITY from Anita’s study will assist with risk analysis and risk mitigation decisions including whether Fire resilience of existing composite retrofitting of existing buildings is necessary. steel plate girder bridges Anita is currently a research fellow and tutor at the SCHOLARSHIP STUDENT DATE COMMENCED: FEBRUARY 2015 Swinburne University of Technology. Supervisors: Dr Hessam Mohseni and Prof Sujeeva Setunge Douglas Brown CRC link: Enhancing resilience of critical road THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY infrastructure Domestic architecture and the Amila’s PhD is identifying the vulnerability index perception of risk in bushfire-prone for a structural form of a steel bridge that has areas been exposed to bushfire. He is investigating ways to enhance the fire resilience of bridges and the ASSOCIATE