Thomas Beveridge

Thomas Beveridge holds a Master of Arts degree in disaster and emergency management from Royal Roads University and is an incoming doctoral student in the PhD program in fire and emergency management administration at Oklahoma State University. Beveridge is a retired royal canadian navy member with over 20 years of service, and resides in rural Nova Scotia, where he has remained active in volunteer response coordination for over 22 years and serves as a volunteer medical first responder.

His research interests examine barriers to volunteer engagement in disaster response, with a focus on public policy, mobility and disability inclusion, the rural–urban divide, the intersection of housing insecurity and disaster vulnerability, and the implications of emerging technologies within legal and operational disaster frameworks. Beveridge was awarded a $2,500 Support Our Troops National Scholarship in recognition of his academic achievements.

As an armiger, Beveridge's personal coat of arms, featuring his motto E mente confusio fundit ("From the mind, pours confusion"), reflects both a pun and captures the complexity and unpredictability of disaster response and policy planning.