Research units

Each unit focuses on tackling particular challenges in disaster management and public safety and on developing innovative solutions to meet our Research Priority Areas and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

  • Coastal and Ocean Extremes

    Using technology to predict coastal and ocean extremes to mitigate the impacts on human activity.

  • Community Resilience and Public Health

    Building our understanding of the social impacts of disasters and the strategies for individual and community resilience and recovery.

  • Dynamic Hazards Mitigation

    Supporting the mitigation of the dynamic hazards of earthquakes, collisions, landslides, rockfalls, wind-borne debris and hail.

    • Earthquake

  • Early warning and forecasting of geohazards

    Developing robust, community-centric early warning systems for geohazards, with a focus on landslides.

  • Earth Observations

    Advancing the field of earth observation (EO) by leveraging the cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) for precise spatial information applicable to disaster mitigation.

  • Flood Management

    Improving the accuracy of flood risk estimation for planning purposes, and our understanding of the factors that assist our ability to manage floods in real time.

  • Geospatial and Location Intelligence

    Studying global, continental, and local disaster related problems affecting society by utilising geospatial and location intelligence research capabilities.

  • Infrastructure Resilience

    Advancing the field of disaster mitigation by fostering the scientific community's collaboration for critical technology.

  • Mental health and wellbeing interventions

    Advancing the understanding and effective implementation of disaster-related mental health, wellbeing and recovery interventions and programs.

  • Mission Critical Communications

    Raising awareness and understanding of the importance of resilient, interoperable communications for the public safety market.

  • Transport and Logistics

    Increasing the resilience of transport networks and enhance post-disaster humanitarian logistics practices by developing improved decision support systems

  • Unmanned Aircraft Systems

    Developing novel and advanced applications of UAS technology in disaster management practice.