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Nov/Dec 2018
Opportunities of Interest
PhD in Neighbourhood Approaches in Humanitarian Programming(Sydney, Australia)
This research seeks to unpack area-based, settlements, and neighbourhood approaches in humanitarian programmingused in disasters and conflicts, exploring the effectiveness of these strategies in promoting recovery of communities.
Potential areas of focus will include unpacking organizing principles of integrated humanitarian approaches, cross-casecomparison of community recovery outcomes, or organizational change of humanitarian organizations to adapt to newdelivery mechanisms. Findings will inform best practice for international donors and humanitarian organizations seeking
to fund and implement programs using one of the considered approaches.
https://sydney.edu.au/research/opportunities/opportunities/2434

Research Fellowships at IIASA Your Scientists Summer Program(Vienna, Austria)
The Young Scientists Summer Program at IIASA offers fellowships for PhD
students to undertake a summer project on a topic related to IIASA’s research
agenda. Every summer from 1 June to 31 August, IIASA hosts up to 50 doctoral
students from around the world. Each participant works on a topic related tohis or her PhD thesis and IIASA’s research agenda, the goal being to write apublishable paper. All YSSP participants are personally mentored by IIASA senior scientists.
www.iiasa.ac.at/yssp

PhD in Scaling Safe Construction in Humanitarian Shelter(Sydney, Australia)
This research seeks to investigate strategies to scale safe shelter and housing construction
practice in the aftermath of disasters and conflicts in developing communities. Potential areasof focus may include behaviour change and household motivations for safer construction,performance of non-engineered building components, and ‘self-recovery’ strategies in humanitarian shelter
programming. Findings will offer policy recommendations to extend the impact of humanitarian shelter assistance indeveloping communities.
https://sydney.edu.au/research/opportunities/opportunities/2435

Other Items of Interest
Culture strongly influences coping behaviours after natural disasters – 2/11/18
Demographic and cultural differences strongly influence the coping styles young people use when they're affected by anatural disaster, and these disparities should be taken into account when providing services to help them recover fromthese traumatic experiences, researchers say.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181102180805.htm

Micro-earthquakes preceding a 4.2 earthquake near Istanbul as early warning signs? – 1/11/18
Researchers have observed foreshocks that, if analyzed accordingly and in real-time, may possibly increase the earlywarning time before a large earthquake from just a few seconds up to several hours.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181101085116.htm

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