Teaching Units

I have been responsible for teaching core units in the Master of Emergency and Disaster Management and Master of Health Emergency Preparedness and Response at CDU Australia. I also teach community-based risk management and risk assessment units at the Bachelor of Humanitarian Aid and Development. Some of the units include:

Brief examples of topics covered in the units [2019]:

In DEM511: Tools and skills in disaster risk management; Risk, hazard, and vulnerability assessments models and frameworks; post-disaster need assessment; conflict warning systems assessment; cash transfers and market assessment; how to make resilience a reality; natural hazards assessments; climate change impact assessments; understanding disaster policy assessment and disaster policy-making processes; how to write emergency planning; how to write urban resilience strategy paper; students video project on disaster theories from >70 prominent scholars;

For DEM513; Crisis leadership theories and practice; Decision making under uncertainties; crisis and risk communication; disaster bureaucracy and leadership; Crisis leadership case studies from Harvard Kennedy School (10 cases including leadership and decision making from Indian Ocean Tsunami to 9/11 cases); understanding decision making models; civil-military coordination; humanitarian technology and innovation; how to do consulting in humanitarian emergency and disaster management; crisis communication skills.

For DEM514; Understanding institutions and disaster risk; complexity theory and social network application in disaster and emergency studies; advanced livelihoods analysis; end-to-end global and local disaster early warning systems; cultural response to risk and disasters; cultural safety and disaster; participation and DRR; social exclusion and disaster reduction; psychology of disaster risk and decision making; key concepts and theories and practices in social science approaches to disaster management problems.

For DEM515; Reflective practice concepts and theories in humanitarian emergency and disaster management; Reflective Practice in Disaster and Emergency Management [From Paulo Freire and Donald Schön to present day’s reflective practice]; Students’ reflective case studies writing projects could be: a critical reflection of recent disaster interventions;

Brief examples of topics covered in the units [2016]:

For DEM513; Global humanitarian ecosystems; humanitarian reform agenda at global and regional levels; crisis leadership; asking the risk leadership questions; understanding decision-making models; humanitarian/ disaster diplomacy; civil-military coordination; post-disaster need assessment methodology; risk communication; how to do consulting in humanitarian emergency and disaster management; humanitarian technology for effective response.

DEM514: Sociological and anthropological approaches to risk and disasters studies and practices; system theory; complexity theory and social network application in disaster and emergency studies; advanced livelihoods analysis; institutional dimension of disaster early warning systems; cultural response to risk and disasters; participation and DRR; social exclusion and disaster reduction; psychology of disaster risk; behavioural economics and disaster risk;

DEM615: Reflective practice concepts and theories in humanitarian emergency and disaster management; Students’ reflective case studies writing projects could be: a critical reflection of recent disaster interventions; critical reflection on a particular risk communication strategy; evaluation of recent civil protection and emergency responses to terrorism in Europe; Cultural safety and competence

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