Disaster & Emergency Management Assistant Professor Evalyna Bogdan is the co-designer of the Flood Resilience Challenge (FRC) Game, a serious game designed to engage business, government and community leaders in scenario-based planning for various types of flooding. Players assume different stakeholder roles, discuss flood risk management measures, and evaluate their past decisions to make informed […]
Disaster & Emergency Management Assistant Professor Evalyna Bogdan has co-authored a new report that came out at the end of December. "We’re Ready! Plus Report A Practicum On Community Disaster Preparedness Workshop In Inglewood Community, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada" details the community disaster preparedness workshops co-developed with community members from High River following the 2013 Alberta […]
DEM Associate Professor Ali Asgary was quoted in a Scientific American article, “What to Do if You’re Trapped in a Surging Crowd,” where he discussed crowd management following Seoul’s deadly crowd crush on October 29. “In a situation like this, it is hard to say exactly what went wrong. There are typically investigations planned and […]
Disaster & Emergency Management Assistant Professor Evalyna Bogdan has co-authored a research paper, “Building new relationships and connections in emergency management: The role of social work practitioners and human service professionals in disaster recovery,” in the Canadian Journal of Emergency Management. “Spurred by the climate crisis, disasters are growing in frequency and severity around the […]
School of Administrative Studies professor Richard Leblanc was quoted in a Global News article, “Hockey Canada faces ‘long road ahead’ as organization seeks new leadership“, where he discussed the organizational changes that are coming for Hockey Canada as it seeks a new direction and ways to enact necessary reforms. “It’s a long road ahead. A […]
Disaster & Emergency Management Assistant Professor Evalyna Bogdan has co-authored a research paper, “A Serious Role-Playing Game as a Pedagogical Innovation to Strengthen Flood Resilience,” in IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. According to the article’s abstract, it discusses how flooding, a global emergency concern, has “prompted the development of innovative approaches to flood resilience”, that […]
School of Administrative Studies Professor Richard Leblanc was featured in a Hamilton Spectator article titled, “‘It’s time for a change’: Pat Daly finally has some competition in the upcoming municipal election”. The article discusses how there is new competition against long-serving school board trustees in an upcoming municipal election. “There are institutional advantages to long-serving […]
SAS Assistant Professor David Weitzner wrote an article that was published in The Conversation, titled, “Push for AI innovation can create dangerous products”, where he discussed that although AI technology can give companies an edge over competitors, at times flawed products enter the market. “If AI is central to our future, we need to pay […]
Professor Richard Leblanc was recently featured in multiple news stories discussing the July 8 Rogers outage. In the Toronto Star, Leblanc suggested companies such as Rogers be more independently audited for their internal control to minimize the possibility of an outage. In CP24, Leblanc said the situation may have been worse for the entire countray […]
DEM Professor Jennifer Spinney was quoted in an article for BayToday.ca, titled “Ontario: A year after tornado, research team returning to Barrie,” discussing how recovery can happen after a natural disaster event. “We want to develop some community informed guidelines, some practical strategies and tips for how communities can build their capacity to rebuild from […]