Briony Towers
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Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Briony Towers is a research fellow in the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University in Australia. Her research is focused on child participation in disaster risk reduction. Her PhD dissertation presented a socio-cultural theory of children’s knowledge of wildfire hazards in Southeastern Australia. She currently leads a national project on disaster risk reduction and resilience education for the Australian Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre.