We design and deliver high-quality research and analysis investigating practical risk and resilience challenges. We also contribute to building knowledge through government-funded research programmes.
Integrating social science with physical science, engineering, and economics
Leading and supporting transdisciplinary research programmes • Translating across disciplines
Applying behavioural science and systems thinking • Using mixed methods research approaches
Integrating social science into quantitative risk and loss models
Disaster
response &
recovery
Risk
reduction &
adaptation
Risk
communication
& engagement
Organisational
risk &
resilience
Resilience
measurement
Translating research to policy and practice
Decision-making tools • Guidance documents
Facilitation and engagement • Education and training
Measurement and diagnostic tools
Risk & resilience research services
We can help with:
- Decision making under deep uncertainty
- Organisational resilience
- Crisis response and recovery
- Disaster risk reduction
- Resilience measurement
- Risk management
- Economic evaluation
- Research communication
Got a wicked problem to solve?
Examples of our work
Managing risk in the construction industry
The construction sector plays a critical role in supporting the wellbeing and economic prosperity of our communities, yet it is a perennial underperformer.
In this BRANZ funded project we built RISKFLOW, a system dynamics model of the sector to help better understand the relationships between risk, risk management, and productivity in the construction sector.
As with all our research projects, getting the right multi-disciplinary team was critical. We worked with Market Economics and the University of Auckland on this project.
Resilience to Nature’s Challenges
We are part of the government-funded National Science Challenge Resilience to Nature’s Challenges. Since 2014 we have been part of this cutting edge research programme aimed at transformative resilience that will enable New Zealand to thrive in the face of challenges from nature.
Joanne Stevenson and John Vargo co-lead the Trajectories programme developing a “Resilience Warrant of Fitness” system, which includes scalable, multi--capital community resilience indicators.
Charlotte Brown is currently working with the Multi-hazard Risk Modelling programme looking at integrating hazard modelling and decision-making under deep uncertainty.
QuakeCoRE
QuakeCoRE is a Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) focusing on earthquake resilience, funded by the New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission.
We have been involved with QuakeCoRE since its inception in 2015. Charlotte Brown is a Principal Investigator with QuakeCoRE.
We have undertaken projects including:
- Business recovery following the Christchurch earthquake
- Exploring decision making under deep uncertainty
- Data integration and visualisation en masse prototypes
- Disruption impacts on central government productivity