Aligned with our overarching mission to lead and instigate meaningful change of the humanitarian system, CHL conducts collaborative research that not only informs but also influences real-world leadership in humanitarian contexts.
Research projects
Resilient Regions (Victoria)
Together with Deakin University we’re working on a new Australian Government-funded disaster and resilience project examining collaboration between East Gippsland businesses and communities.
Under the flagship Disaster Ready Fund, Australian Business Volunteers will facilitate a series of community-led workshops and meetings, and deliver pro-bono disaster resilience projects with corporate partners and skilled volunteers to boost the capacity of small business and local organisations.
Deakin and CHL researchers will use insights from these sessions to build an evidence-base on the relationships between the business sector, skilled volunteering and community resilience.
Read more in this announcement from Australian Government Minister for Emergency Management, Murray Watt, or view the short launch video by clicking on the screenshot below.
Research citations – 2023/24
- Saha, M., Zadeh-Cummings, N., McGlasson, M., & Brockington, S., (2024). “For them it’s not the work, it’s the life”: humanitarian leadership development in the Global South, Journal of International Humanitarian Action
- Coughlan, R., Zadeh-Cummings, N., Petrova, M., & Spiegel, P. (2004) The “New-Old” Dimensions of Caring in Humanitarian Response: The Opportunity for Public Health Palliative Care to Advance the Humanitarian-Development Nexus, Decoloniality, and Localization Thought, The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision and Financing, September 2024.
- Ahmadi, SJ., Musavi, Z., Ahmadi, S., Masha, S., Muradi, N., Samim, NU., Sarwary, SA., Sarwary, SAA., Shahinzada, S., McAvoy, D., Earnest, A. & Jobson, L. (2023). Examining MEmory Training for Recovery-Adolescent among Afghan adolescent boys: a pilot randomised controlled trial, European Journal of Psychotraumatology
- Kamara, J*., Mahumu, RA., Hounsell, H., Renzaho, A. (2023). Variations in COVID-19 interventions: A systematic review and meta-ethnography of government policy responses and characteristics in eastern Africa. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. Vol 96.
- Kelly, M*, Pardy, M*, and McGlasson, M. A. ‘The sound of silence? Listening to localisation at the World Humanitarian Summit.’ Disasters. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12611
