By Dr Timothy Heffernan

Book Chapters

Heffernan T; Alimardanian M, 2024, 'Introduction', in Heffernan T; Alimardanian M (ed.), The anthropology of ambiguity, Manchester University Press, pp. 1 - 12, https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/300/edited_volume/chapter/3912688

Alimardanian M; Heffernan T, 2024, 'Afterword: Sitting and being with ambiguity', in Alimardanian M; Heffernan T (ed.), The anthropology of ambiguity, Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 240 - 248

Heffernan T, 2024, 'Queering the crisis–recovery nexus: Personhood and societal transformation after economic collapse in Iceland', in Alimardanian M; Heffernan T (ed.), The anthropology of ambiguity, Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 67 - 84, http://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526173850.00011

Heffernan T, 2022, 'Economic anthropology in view of the global financial crisis', in The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences, pp. 457 - 481, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7255-2_14

Edited Books

Alimardanian M; Heffernan T, (ed.), 2024, The anthropology of ambiguity, Manchester University Press, Manchester

Journal articles

Sanderson D; Heffernan T; DeSisto M; Shearing C, 2025, 'Community-centred disaster recovery: A call to change the narrative', Disasters, 49, pp. e12655, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12655

Heffernan T; Shearing C; Sanderson D, 2024, 'Building age-inclusive disaster risk reduction: Insights among geographically mobile young adults in regional Australia', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 113, pp. 104813 - 104813, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104813

Heffernan T; Shearing C; Sanderson D; De Sisto M, 2024, 'Building cross-sector recovery collaborations after Australian bushfires: The importance of embracing and linking diverse capitals and capacities', Environmental Hazards, ahead-of-print, pp. 1 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2024.2368498

Stanley SK; Heffernan T; Macleod E; Lane J; Walker I; Evans O; Greenwood LM; Kurz T; Calear AL; Reynolds J; Cruwys T; Christensen BK; Sutherland S; Rodney RM, 2024, 'Solastalgia following the Australian summer of bushfires: Qualitative and quantitative insights about environmental distress and recovery', Journal of Environmental Psychology, 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102273

Brady K; Gallagher C; Molyneaux R; Sanderson D; Heffernan T; Gibbs L, 2024, 'Improving long-term disaster recovery research in Australia through boosting dataset comparability', Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 39, pp. 79 - 80, https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/resources/ajem-april-2024-improving-long-term-disaster-recovery-research-in-australia-through-boosting-dataset-comparability/

Christensen BK; Monaghan C; Stanley SK; Walker I; Leviston Z; Macleod E; Rodney RM; Greenwood L-M; Heffernan T; Evans O; Sutherland S; Reynolds J; Calear AL; Kurz T; Lane J, 2024, 'The Brief Solastalgia Scale: A Psychometric Evaluation and Revision', EcoHealth, 21, pp. 83 - 93, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10393-024-01673-y

De Sisto M; Shearing C; Heffernan T; Sanderson D, 2024, 'Reshaping disaster management: An integrated community-led approach', Australian Journal of Public Administration, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12668

Macleod E; Heffernan T; Greenwood L-M; Walker I; Lane J; Stanley SK; Evans O; Calear AL; Cruwys T; Christensen BK; Kurz T; Lancsar E; Reynolds J; Harris RR; Sutherland S, 2023, 'Predictors of individual mental health and psychological resilience after Australia’s 2019–2020 bushfires', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00048674231175618

Cruwys T; Macleod E; Heffernan T; Walker I; Stanley SK; Kurz T; Greenwood LM; Evans O; Calear AL, 2023, 'Social group connections support mental health following wildfire', Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 59, pp. 957 - 967, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-023-02519-8

Heffernan T, 2020, '“Where Is the New Constitution?” Public Protest and Community-Building in Post–Economic Collapse Iceland', Conflict and Society, 6, pp. 236 - 254, http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/arcs.2020.060114

Heffernan T; Pawlak M, 2020, 'Crisis futures: The affects and temporalities of economic collapse in Iceland', History and Anthropology, 31, pp. 314 - 330, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2020.1762589

Heffernan T, 2020, 'Crisis and belonging: Protest voices and empathic solidarity in post-economic collapse iceland', Religions, 11, pp. 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11010022

Heffernan T, 2019, '“Gambling Debt: Iceland’s Rise and Fall in the Global Economy” E. Paul Durrenberger and Gísli Pálsson Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2014', Student Anthropologist, 6, pp. 82 - 83, https://studentanthropologist.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/heffernan.-book-review.-sa-2019.pdf

Heffernan T, 2019, 'Messy Europe: crisis, race, and nation-state in a postcolonial world', SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 27, pp. 122 - 124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12618

Reports

Heffernan T; Stewart K; Shearing C; Sanderson D, 2024, Flipping the script: young people mobilise adults to increase participation in disaster risk reduction, AIDR, Melbourne, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28722, https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/media/10533/ajem-2024-01_09.pdf

James Martin Institute for Public Policy ; NSW Education Department ; Heffernan T, 2023, Local links and learning: Resilience in regional, rural and remote schools. Fostering community ties and harnessing learning opportunities to boost resilience, The James Martin Institute for Public Policy, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/rg.2.2.22693.68325

Heffernan T; Macleod E; Greenwood L-M; Walker I; Lane J; Stanley S; Evans O; Calear A; Cruwys T, 2022, Mental health, wellbeing and resilience after the 2019-20 bushfires: The Australian national bushfire health and wellbeing survey—A preliminary report, Research School of Psychology, ANU College of Health and Medicine, Canberra, http://dx.doi.org/10.25911/ag7d-7574

Kennett R; Tran T; Heffernan T; Strelnikow L, 2016, Livelihood values in Indigenous cultural fishing: Report of a meeting with Indigenous cultural fishers on the south coast of NSW, Canberra, ACT

Kennett R; Tran T; Talbot L; Heffernan T; Barton M, 2015, Implementing native title: Indigenous leadership in land and water livelihoods, AIATSIS, Canberra, https://aiatsis.gov.au/publication/35072

Media

Heffernan T, 2023, Building social resilience through community-oriented approaches to disaster management, https://thepolicymaker.jmi.org.au/building-social-resilience-through-community-oriented-approaches-to-disaster-management/

Heffernan T, 2022, Should you feed child guests dinner? What #Swedengate tells us about food culture and social expectations, https://theconversation.com/should-you-feed-child-guests-dinner-what-swedengate-tells-us-about-food-culture-and-social-expectations-184142

Heffernan T, 2021, The Shifting Quality of the European Public Sphere: Notes from Post-Crisis Iceland, https://www.theeuromonitor.com/the-shifting-quality-of-the-european-public-sphere-notes-from-post-crisis-iceland/

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