Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast with Renae Hanvin
Let’s face it our future will be one with more natural and unnatural disasters - whether we want them or not, they are here to stay. Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast, hosted by corporate2community founder and disaster resilience specialist Renae Hanvin, brings you informal conversations with global and local leaders in emergency management and disaster resilience across government, corporate, small business, non-profit and community stakeholders. Perfect for building your understanding and disaster-related toolkit, there’s no doubt you’ll be inspired to start doing disasters differently today. Visit https://resilientready.org/ to find out more and don’t forget to connect with Renae Hanvin +
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Episodes
53 episodes
Disasters Aren’t Equal: Why Gender Matters
In this episode of Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast, host Renae Hanvin speaks with Dr. Margaret Moreton about gender and disaster. She discusses the critical importance of integrating gender perspectives into ...
Linking Council and Community
In this episode of Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast, host Renae Hanvin speaks with Allie Guegan & Zac Zorn about Linking ...
Pharmacists in Disasters
In this episode of Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast, host Renae Hanvin speaks with Dr. Libby McCourt about the critical role of pharmacists in disaster preparedness and response. She shares insights from her research, experiences...
Strengthening resilience through connectivity
Today’s guest is Nicole Blackwell, an experienced emergency management leader working at NBN Co, helping strengthen preparedness, response and resilience across complex systems and critical infrastruct...
Connecting research, communication, and human behaviour to disasters
Today’s guest is Dr Barbara Ryan - an award-winning disaster behaviour researcher, communicator and long-time leader in emergency management communication across Australia.Barbara has spent more than 40 years working across journalism, ...
We Did It with Prof. Daniel Aldrich
In this episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae talks with Professor Daniel Aldrich, a full professor at Northeastern University. They explore the groundbreaking development of a national framework for measuri...
Tony’s Trek
In this episode, I'm talking with Tony Pearce about Tony's Trek.Tony shares his inspiring journey of raising awareness for mental health in emergency services through daring treks, including walking from Melbourne to Brisbane, Everest Ba...
Why business chambers are critical
In this episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is joined by John de Rooy, a respected business and community leader with a strong background in regional development and business chambers. A leader of the Malanda Chamber of Comme...
Leading in Uncertainty: why risk leadership needs to change
In this episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is joined by Dave Owens, an experienced emergency manager and former police officer who now works with governments and organisations to strengthen risk and crisis leadership. Drawin...
The Psychology of Disasters
In this week's episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is joined by David Younger, a clinical psychologist and consultant to governments and communities who is deeply passionate about stress and wellbeing when it comes to before, during a...
HowWeSurvive
In this episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is joined by David Sanderson, the Inaugural Judith Neilson Professor of Architecture at UNSW, and Founder and lead of HowWeSurvive. With a true passion for disaster resilience and r...
Do Governments Trust Communities
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is joined by Mark Duckworth, Associate Director at the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies (CRIS) and Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship an...
Emergency Management in South Australia
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is joined by Leanne Schmidt, Manager Emergency Support at the Local Government Association of South Australia. With decades of experience across SES and fire services, Leanne...
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What 2 things are we doing differently?
In this special 40th episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae reflects on standout conversations from the last ten episodes with thought leaders in disaster resilience. Renae highlights the growing momentum around social capital, the...
Are schools key to social capital?
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently Renae chats with Dr Briony Towers, founder of Leadrrr and expert in child-centered disaster risk management. They explore the role of schools in building social capital and h...
The National Emergency Management Stockpile (NEMS)
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is joined by Joe Buffone, Deputy Coordinator General at the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). With over 40 years in security and disaster management, Joe has played a key r...
It’s time to focus on small businesses
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is joined by the Hon Bruce Billson, Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO), a tireless advocate for small businesses across the country. Today, we a...
Grape and wine sector resilience in South Australia
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is talking with Professor Paul Arbon AM, a distinguished leader in emergency and disaster resilience and Director of the Torrens Resilience Initiative at Flinders University.To...
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From India to Australia for resilience
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is talking with Kruthika Nagananda, a passionate advocate for resilience who moved from India to Australia to pursue her dream of strengthening communities in times of crisis. Today, ...
Sharing your lived experience with others
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is talking with Fiona Jago, a former dairy farmer and small business owner with deep roots in regional Victoria. Fiona and her husband, Mark, made a bold move to purchase and run a ca...
Building cultural heritage resilience
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is talking with Johanna Garnett who is the Manager of Disaster Resilience & Risk Reduction at the South Australian Fire and Emergency Services Commission (SAFECOM). Today we are t...
Indicators of Community Disaster Fatigue
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is talking with Dr Val Ingham who is the Associate Professor, Emergency Management at Charles Sturt University. Today we are talking about Indicators of Community Disaster Fatigue.&nb...
Bringing social capital and social infrastructure measurement to Australia
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, Renae is talking with Professor Daniel Aldrich, Director of the resilience and security studies program at Northeastern University in the USA who’s also a volunteer advisory member of Resil...
Are we different 2 years on?
In this episode, Renae reflects on the increasing complexity of disasters in Australia, from bushfires and floods to smaller disruptions like power outages and staffing shortages. She emphasises the critical role small businesses play in commun...
Safeguarding livelihoods and services after disasters
In this week’s episode of Doing Disasters Differently, I sat down with David Parsons, crisis management expert, and volunteer advisor and delivery partner at Resilient Ready and today we are talking about safeguarding livelihoods and ser...
