Joanne Stevenson
Joanne Stevenson is a PhD candidate at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Joanne moved to Christchurch in July 2010 just prior to the Canterbury earthquake series began. Following the initial September 2010 Canterbury earthquake, she began working with the Resilient Organisations research group cataloguing the effects of the earthquakes on organisations throughout Canterbury. In January 2011, Stevenson received a UC Doctoral Scholarship to pursue her PhD in Geography at Canterbury, focusing on the recovery of organisations in urban areas affected by the Canterbury earthquake series. Her research explores how organisations’ relationships to their local environments prior to and following the earthquakes influences recovery trajectories and examines the ways organisations utilise formal and informal support networks to mobilise social capital necessary for their recovery.
Stevenson received her Master of Science in Geography at the University of South Carolina’s Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute, completing her thesis: Rebuilding Coastal Mississippi Following Hurricane Katrina: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis in 2010. Prior to this she also worked at the University of Dundee in Scotland following the 2007 U.K. floods to research the impact of major flooding and model cost to insurers at individual risk level.
Workshop Abstracts
Related Resources from Joanne Stevenson
Post-Disaster Organisational Recovery in a Central Business District Context: The 2010 & 2011 Canterbury Earthquakes
With Erica Seville, Hlekiwe Kachali, John Vargo, and Zachary Whitman
Resilient Organisations Programme, 2011
