Researcher

Dr Timothy Heffernan

Keywords

anthropology

disaster risk reduction

Fields of Research (FoR)

Anthropology, Humanitarian disasters, conflict and peacebuilding

SEO tags

Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society

Studies in human society

Biography

I am an anthropologist living and working on Gadigal Country. I work with communities in Australia and Europe affected by event-based hardship, such as environmental disasters and political and economic crises. Informed by ethnographic fieldwork, my research examines the connection between a community's experience of crisis or disaster and the ways they set about building recovery, noting this is never straightforward.

Currently, I am a...view more

I am an anthropologist living and working on Gadigal Country. I work with communities in Australia and Europe affected by event-based hardship, such as environmental disasters and political and economic crises. Informed by ethnographic fieldwork, my research examines the connection between a community's experience of crisis or disaster and the ways they set about building recovery, noting this is never straightforward.

Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the UNSW School of Built Environment and a visiting researcher (2022-2024) at the ANU School of Psychology and Medicine. My research has been funded by the Australian and NSW Governments and UACES: University Association for Contemporary European Studies.

Inaugural network lead: UNSW Interdisciplinary Ethnography Network (UNSW IEN)