Our second cohort of the MSc in Crisis and Disaster Management graduated yesterday. Huge congratulations to all on this achievement

For those creating syllabi on environmental and/or climate justice, we have an open database of readings centering Black, Indigenous, Asian, and/or Latinx authors! Also, if you have new articles to add to the database let me know! The lab is updating the syllabus this week.

This happened in the late 1970s to a woman scientist I know, who told me about the pleasure of scientific life among men (she was cooking for the men and never really part of the scientific discussion during the scientific expedition). #gender #science #Radix

Great writing day with colleagues at the first of our writing retreats for novice writers, starting with writing for teaching and learning. Super productive and confidence building day Aston Business School Aston Law School Dr Lauren Traczykowski

Huge thanks Aston Crisis Management Centre Need to get on with some Disaster Ethics workshops now!

Exciting News! We have two PhD Studentships on offer. *Ethical considerations of humanitarian food supply chain management in emergency situations* jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… *Intelligent disaster management in smart cities* jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… Join us!

To mark the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, Aston Crisis Management Centre is holding an event with some very interesting speakers. There is still time to register eventbrite.co.uk/e/disaster-ris…

Today’s the day! Hope you’re joining us for our annual event to mark #DRRDay ! Fab speakers and hopefully some good discussions about reducing inequity in disaster response and recovery. Watch this space!

#DRRDay Aston Crisis Management Centre kicks off with the Director of our Centre, Prof. Pavel Albores, introducing the Centre and reminding us of current and ongoing emergencies around the world. ‘Fighting inequality for a resilient future’ is our focus of the day.

Today is the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction #DRRday and we are announcing three new Grant Funding Calls that align with the UN's key theme for this year: "Fighting inequality for a resilient future through collaboration, inclusion, empowerment, and partnerships."

#DRRDay at Aston Crisis Management Centre. Dr. Mary Orhewere bringing the fight for inequality reduction to the local level. Reducing health and environmental inequality for resilience in a diverse city as Birmingham. Aston Business School Aston University PR

Teach your students how to skim articles using my AIC (Abstract, Introduction, Conclusion) Method,. This post includes an AIC-> Synthetic Note Template for undergraduates (and graduates!) buff.ly/2MycOPY

Thanks Aston University Library and Learning Services Big shout out to our four amazing student co-writers as well: Mohammed Huda , Christine Reyes, Tuhid Islam & Anika Baksh

🙌| Leadership Matters series returns to Aston University 🗣️ The networking event will be hosted by Dr Lauren Traczykowski with speakers from Aston Villa, NHS England & BhamFoodCouncil 📍Aston Business School 📅23 November 🕕18:00-21:00 👉tinyurl.com/3e8dcsbd #TeamAston

Philosophy Gets Schooled - has now done all the AQA #philosophy spec. 42 eps. across 18 months. Woo-hoo! Thanks to many inc. Dr DaN McKee (he/him) @Sally_Latham_ Dr Elizabeth Mackintosh A Level Philosophy / Michael Lacewing Dr Lauren Traczykowski plus all who listen! More to come once I move to IDEA: The Ethics Centre in Jan.

Kate BhamFoodCouncil was amazing! Loved chairing this panel. #disasterethics

Is there such a thing as #ethical and #safe #disaster #research ⁉️ Read more in my latest blog ➡️ blogs.ucl.ac.uk/irdr/2024/02/2… Citing JC Gaillard & Lori Peek, Dr Lauren Traczykowski , Lisa Smirl, Rodrigo (Rod) Mena, emily ragus, Gemma Sou & others! RADIX: Radical Interpretations of Disasters Disaster Prevention and Management @UCLIRDR UCL Warning Research Centre

🟣 Resilience, but HOW! What approaches could be designed and implemented to build societal resilience? ➡️ Register for our next webinar that will showcase approaches, best practices, and lessons learned for building societal #resilience 🌐 Register here bit.ly/FRSWebinar1

Heavy working week? 🤯 If you missed our first thematic webinar, no worries, we've got you saved! Thanks to our speakers ⭐️ Kerstin Cuhls Fraunhofer ISI, Dr Lauren Traczykowski Aston University & Cristian Matti EU_ScienceHub ➡️ Watch the recordings 🖥️ youtu.be/a7og971Y0G0 #resilience #foresight