Research

Risk Strategies Research and Consulting offers contract research services for organisations wanting high quality, timely, and innovative research in the fields of risk and resilience management, business continuity planning and complex systems analysis. 

 

Dr Erica Seville (nee Erica Dalziell) is actively involved in ongoing research as a Research Fellow within the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Canterbury. 

 

Resilient Organisations

Erica leads a six year research programme “Resilient Organisations” which aims to improve the resilience of New Zealand organisations to major hazard events. 

 

Organisations manage, maintain and operate our infrastructure, create our economy and contribute to our society. The ability of organisations to respond effectively following a hazard event will have a large influence on the length of time that essential services are unavailable, and ultimately how well our communities cope with major disaster.

 

Particular aspects of organisational response focused on by the research team include: how organisations plan for hazard events, their ability to direct resources effectively during crises, and the legal and contractual frameworks within which they will need to operate.

 

This research programme, running from 2004 – 2010, is funded by the Foundation of Research Science and Technology (FRST) with a total research budget of $1.8M. 

 

For more details see www.resorgs.org.nz.