by Susanne | May 12, 2020 | Research
If you have insights on the needs of grassroots organizing, or are involved in a community effort for COVID-19, we want to hear from you! If you are willing to participate in a 60-minute phone interview with a member of our team, please let us know here. ...
by Susanne | Jan 17, 2020 | News, Research
Major disasters are becoming more frequent, and are impacting more people. Recently, Amy Feldman of All Good Work challenged me for this vague and unsupported statement. That sent me on an industrious search for clear reliable evidence, and through a rabbit warren of...
by Susanne | Nov 27, 2017 | Research
A few days after Hurricane Harvey devastated the Texas coast, we found out about this exceptional case of spontaneous leadership in Rockport TX. Thanks to the generosity of many individuals, and a fortunate conjunction of circumstances, we are working on our...
by Susanne | Sep 20, 2017 | Research
If you were, I want to hear your story, and get your perspective on what happened at the school before, during and after the storm. I am a researcher in the field of community disaster response. I’m investigating how groups of strangers take care of themselves and...
by Susanne | Feb 15, 2017 | Project, Research
There is no substitute for the real thing. We hope to field a small team of researchers sometime in 2017 for a field-based case study. This is contingent on the vagaries of disaster, funding, and prior commitments. In the meantime, we are working on ways to identify...
by Susanne | Feb 13, 2017 | Research
We combine emergent leadership and improvised crisis response. There are others who are interested in each of these areas. To learn from and encourage their efforts, we would like to hold a series of virtual roundtable discussions. These sessions would allow...
