Dr Christine Eriksen is a social geographer with the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research at the University of Wollongong and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers. Her research examines the role and place of local environmental knowledge in building resilience to natural hazards and maintaining sustainable land management practices. A major part of Christine’s work focuses on wildfire awareness and preparedness amongst women, men, households, communities and agencies at the rural/wildland-urban interface. She follows women’s and men’s stories of surviving, fighting, evacuating, living and working with wildfire to reveal the intimate inner workings of wildfire response – and especially the culturally and historically distinct gender relations that underpin wildfire resilience. For more details: http://www.uow.edu.au/science/eesc/eesresearcacademics/UOW073400.html Follow Christine on Twitter: @DrCEriksen
Articles
Book review of: "Women in leadership: contextual dynamics and boundaries" by K. Klenke, Gender, Place & Culture (2012)
Engaging with the (Un)Familiar: Field Teaching in a Multi-Campus Teaching Environment (with Nicholas Gill and Michael Adams), Journal of Geography in Higher Education (2012)
Field trips have long been central to geography, but have been subject to assessment of...
The Art of Learning: Wildfire, Amenity Migration and Local Environmental Knowledge (with Timothy Prior), The International Journal of Wildland Fire (2011)
Communicating the need to prepare well in advance of the wildfire season is a strategic...
The art of learning: wildfire, amenity migration and local environmental knowledge (with T Prior), Faculty of Science - Papers (2011)
Communicating the need to prepare well in advance of the wildfire season is a strategic...
Trial by Fire: natural hazards, mixed-methods and cultural research (with Nicholas Gill and Ross Bradstock), Australian Geographer (2011)
This paper considers the issues of research ‘relevance’ and ‘use’ to reflect upon a cultural...