National Indigenous Disaster Resilience: a Research Program to Promote Indigenous Leadership and Drive Systems Change
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Monarch Room | In-Person Only
| Tuesday, July 23, 2024 |
| 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM |
Overview
Nell Reidy & Dr Emma McNicol, Monash University
Details
Key Presentation Learnings:
1. Indigenous people in Australia are disproportionately impacted by disasters, being three to five times more likely to live in LGAs that are frequently impacted by increasingly severe natural hazards
2. Despite being often overlooked during emergency and disaster relief responses, Indigenous peoples have consistently shown leadership and resilience before, during and after disasters
3. Using healing-centred and trauma-informed methods, NIDR is addressing the lack of research documenting Indigenous peoples' experiences of natural hazards across Australia
Speaker
Dr Emma McNicol
Research Fellow
National Indigenous Disaster Resilience, Monash University
National Indigenous Disaster Resilience: a Research Program to Promote Indigenous Leadership and Drive Systems Change
Biography
Ms Nell Reidy
Research Fellow
National Indigenous Disaster Resilience Program
National Indigenous Disaster Resilience: a research program to promote Indigenous leadership and drive systems change
Abstract
In Australia, a country facing increasingly severe and frequent natural hazards, emergency and disaster relief responses have oftentimes overlooked Indigenous peoples’ and communities’ specific needs, achievements and leadership. In spite of the paucity of governmental and sectorial support for Indigenous peoples before, during and after natural hazards, Indigenous peoples and communities across Australia consistently exhibit extraordinary resilience and leadership during disasters. The incredible grassroots self-organisation witnessed during the 2019-20 bushfires in East Gippsland, the 2022 floods in Lismore and the 2023 floods in Burketown is testament to this.
National Indigenous Disaster Resilience (NIDR) is a new research program led by Euahlayi researcher, Bhiamie Williamson. Nested within Monash University’s flagship Fire to Flourish program, the NIDR team conduct healing centred, Trauma-informed research with Indigenous peoples and communities in order to understand and document their experiences of disasters.
This presentation will introduce NIDR’s pioneering research program, which includes documenting Indigenous disaster resilience and Indigenous peoples and communities’ experiences of disasters, advocating for Indigenous leadership in disaster and emergency management, and driving policies and processes that are self-determining, culturally safe and trauma-informed. At its core, NIDR is a program of work that fosters strong, safe and sustainable Indigenous peoples and communities.
National Indigenous Disaster Resilience (NIDR) is a new research program led by Euahlayi researcher, Bhiamie Williamson. Nested within Monash University’s flagship Fire to Flourish program, the NIDR team conduct healing centred, Trauma-informed research with Indigenous peoples and communities in order to understand and document their experiences of disasters.
This presentation will introduce NIDR’s pioneering research program, which includes documenting Indigenous disaster resilience and Indigenous peoples and communities’ experiences of disasters, advocating for Indigenous leadership in disaster and emergency management, and driving policies and processes that are self-determining, culturally safe and trauma-informed. At its core, NIDR is a program of work that fosters strong, safe and sustainable Indigenous peoples and communities.
Biography
Nell Reidy is a Research Fellow with the Fire to Flourish program at Monash University. She is a settler-descended researcher with a focus on trauma-informed and healing-centred community engagement. She has engaged in collaborative research with First Nations communities across Australia for over 7 years and is focussed on building and maintaining trusting and respectful relationships to develop research priorities and positive outcomes for communities. Prior to joining Fire to Flourish, Nell worked in State Government, where she led extensive community engagement and innovative policymaking.
