Renewal and Resilience – UC Earthquake Research Forum
Renewal and Resilience – UC Earthquake
Research Forum
Tuesday 5 June, Central Lecture
Theatre
Programme
8:30 Registration
9am Welcome and opening of Forum
9:15am Key Note
- Rod Carr “Opportunities from the Earthquakes”
9:35am Plenary - Jarg Pettinga – Canterbury
earthquakes and the practical application of research
10:15am Morning Break
10:45am Themed Sessions
Room
C1 - Commemorating Christchurch
Room C2 - Impacts on
Coastline and Waterways
Room C3 - Crisis Communication
11:45 Plenary - Mike Grimshaw – Disasters, Research
and the Ethics of Disaster
research
12:15 Lunch
1:00pm Interdisciplinary Panel
Discussion – Key lessons from the Canterbury Quakes
2:00pm Themed Sessions
Room C1 – Resilience
Lifelines
Room C2 - Learning in the New Normal
Room
C3 - Working in the New Normal
3pm Afternoon Tea
3:15pm Themed Sessions
Room C1 - Rock fall in the Port Hills
Room C2 -
Transition in the City
Room C3 - Community Health and
Wellbeing
4pm Plenary - John Vargo - Organisational
Resilience in Canterbury: Yesterday, today and
tomorrow
4:30pm Closing Address – Steve Weaver
Speakers
Welcome
Professor Steve
Weaver Assistant Vice Chancellor Research
Jessica Petersen – Earthquake
Research Facilitator
Plenary Sessions
Dr Rod
Carr – Vice Chancellor of the University of
Canterbury – Opportunities from the
Quakes
Professor Jarg Pettinga Acting
Deputy Vice Chancellor – Canterbury earthquakes and the
practical application of research
Associate
Professor Michael Grimshaw School of Social and
Political Sciences - Disasters, Research and the Ethics of
Disaster research
Associate Professor John
Vargo from Resilient Organisations Organisational
Resilience in Canterbury: Yesterday, today and
tomorrow
Panel Members
Associate Professor
Neville Blampied – Psychology
Associate Professor Stefano Pampanin
– Civil and Resource Engineering
Associate
Professor Rosemary du Plessis – School of Social
and Political Sciences
Dr Thomas Wilson
– Geological Sciences
Themed
Sessions
Commemorating Christchurch
Dr
Christopher Thomson UC Digital Humanities
Programme– CEISMIC and the role of a digital archive
Professor Mark Billinghurst HITlabNZ
– Using Augmented Reality to Commemorate Christchurch
Ms Jill Durney MacMillan Brown Library
– UC CEISMIC Virtual Heritage Project: Christchurch Lost
and Found
Impacts on Coastline and
Waterways
Associate Professor Islay
Marsden Biological Sciences – Intertidal
communities in the Avon Heathcote Ihutai
Estuary
Dr Deirdre Hart Geography –
Making coastal cities resilient – lessons from
Christchurch
Dr Catherine Reid
Geological Sciences – The Avon Heathcote as a recorder of
seismic uplift
Crisis Communication
Dr Deak
Helton Psychology – Human Factors in Search and
Rescue
Associate Professor Jim Tully
Media and Communication – Impact on Journalists of
reporting on the quakes
Dr Zita Joyce
Media and Communication - Radio Quake
Resilient Lifelines
Dr Matthew Hughes Civil and Natural
Resource Engineering - Liquefaction impacts on
Christchurch’s water and wastewater networks
Dr
Alessandro Palermo Civil and Natural Resource
Engineering – Impact of ground shaking and lateral spread
on seismic vulnerability of bridges
Dr Sonia
Giovinazzi Civil and Natural Resource Engineering
– Recovery of lifelines
Learning in the New Normal
Professor Simon Kemp Psychology –
How does a series of earthquakes affect academic
performance?
Ms Nicki Dabner School of
Literacies and Arts in Education – UC use of social media
in response to the September quake
Dr Julie
Mackey School of Literacies and Arts in Education -
Implementing blended e-learning strategies in disaster
response mode and beyond: stories from teacher
education
Working in the New Normal
Dr Bernard
Walker and Associate Professor Ven Nilakant
Management – HRM and employee-organisation interactions
following a disaster, and organisational learning as a key
to improve disaster responses
Associate
Professor Kate Van Heugten Social Work –
Challenges and rewards of working in the human services in
the aftermath of the Canterbury Earthquakes
2010/2011
Professor Jeremy Finn Law –
Legal Implications of the earthquakes
Rock fall in
the Port Hills
Dr Marlene Villeneuve
Geological Sciences –Towards understanding mechanisms of
failure in the Port Hills and Bank’s Peninsula
Dr Mark Bloomberg and Mr Peter Rutland
Forestry – Use of forests for rock fall protection in the
Port Hills
Transition City
Dr Charlotte
Brown Civil and Natural Resource Engineering - A
waste-full recovery: managing waste after the 2010/2011
Christchurch earthquakes
Dr George
Parker Theatre and Fine Arts– Performance
research as a tool for building the Transitional City
Community Health and Wellbeing
Professor
Simon Kingham Geography – The impact of exposure
to the earthquake on geographical variations in non
emergency stress related health
Dr David
Conradson Geography – Stories of Movement:
Experience of disruption and adjustment in the post quake
city