Robin Cox
Robin Cox is an associate professor and head of the graduate Disaster and Emergency Management programs at Royal Roads University. She has more than 15 years of counseling, consulting, and research experience focused on the psychosocial dimensions of disasters, disaster resilience, and traumatic stress and coping.
Cox's work focuses on supporting individual, workforce, and community disaster resilience, particularly in small and rural communities, and addressing the disaster concerns of marginalized populations including children and residents of rural and remote communities. Her most recent research has focused on the development and testing of a disaster resilience enhancement process that allows small communities to assess their community resilience and develop community-centered plans to reduce risks associated with relevant hazards and build on local capacity to increase disaster resilience.
Cox's research specializes in community-centered and participatory methodologies that incorporate creative methods such as visual storytelling (i.e., PhotoVoice) and Human Library. In addition to her teaching and academic research, she continues to work as a consultant and has authored a number of national and provincial psychosocial pandemic planning documents. These include Annex P – the Psychosocial Annex of the Canadian Pandemic Influenza Plan for the Health Sector and the British Columbia Ministry of Health's Pandemic Influenza Psychosocial Support Plan for Health Care Workers and Providers.
Cox is an active member of the Canadian disaster planning and response community and serves as a steering committee member with the British Columbia Provincial Health Services Authority's Disaster Psychosocial Services (DPS) network and the National Emergency Psychosocial Advisory Consortium.
Workshop Abstracts
Community Disaster Resilience Planning
Youth-Centered Disaster Recovery: A Participatory Action Research Project
With Lori Peek
Related Resources from Robin Cox
Like a Fish Out of Water: Reconsidering Disaster Recovery and the Role of Place and Social Capital in Community Disaster Resilience
With Karen-Marie Elah Perry
American Journal of Community Psychology, 2011
