Webinar: Creative and Reflexive Methodologies for Critical Disaster Research

Join us for a thought-provoking roundtable discussion on Creative and Reflexive Methodologies for Critical Disaster Research. Inspired by a recently published special issue in Disaster Prevention and Management co-edited by the featured speakers—Dr. Kaira Zoe Alburo Canete (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Dr. Maria Carinnes Alejandria (Universiti Brunei Darussalam), and Dr. Kirstin Kreyscher (Deakin University)—this webinar explores innovative and critical approaches to disaster research.

Together with COPE Director Emmanuel Raju, the panel examines how emerging methodologies can deepen our understanding of disasters and push the boundaries of conventional research to center justice, ethics, and reflexivity. Drawing from the experiences of the special issue's contributors, the conversation aims to illuminate how scholars, communities, and institutions can collaboratively shape pathways toward disaster justice.

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with cutting-edge ideas and connect with a growing network of critical disaster researchers.

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Maria Carinnes Alejandria is an anthropologist specializing in disaster governance and health inequalities in Southeast Asia. Dr Alejandria is an Assistant Professor and the Programme Coordinator of the Sociology and Anthropology Programme at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam. She is also a Global Fellow at Brown University's Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies. She is currently the principal investigator of a multi-country project examining flood preparedness among urban communities in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. 

Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete is a Filipino feminist scholar with training in anthropology and critical development studies. She is currently senior researcher at The Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is also adjunct lecturer at the University of New South Wales. Her research interests include understanding the everyday politics and ethics of living with, responding to, and recovering from disasters and other forms of crisis.

Κirstin Kreyscher is an educator, researcher and writer specialising in interdisciplinary research on climate change adaptation and disaster-conflict dynamics with a focus on young people. She currently works as an associate lecturer at Deakin University, and as a researcher for the Climate Change Adaptation Lab at La Trobe University and the Floods + Me project at Victoria University in Melbourne.

Emmanuel Raju is an Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen. He is the Head of Studies for the Master of Disaster Management, and also the Director of the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research.