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Kat Haynes is an Honorary Fellow at the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences (SEALS) at the University of Wollongong. Her research focuses on environmental change, disaster risk reduction, and community resilience through participatory processes. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia (2005). Her work emphasizes youth and community-centered initiatives, including post-disaster investigations in Australia and volcano risk communication in Montserrat.
Haynes has received significant recognition, including the Australian Academy of Science ASPIRE Award (2015) for contributions to disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation. She leads or collaborates on grants such as the NSW Bushfire Inquiry (2021), Re-walking and Reawakening Country (2021), and Indigenous cultural burning research (2020). She has advised on multiple higher-degree research projects, including geochemistry studies of historical fires.
Her research spans natural hazards, environmental management, and human geography, with a focus on wildfire management, flood risk communication, and elderly resilience during disasters. She collaborates with government and NGOs to institutionalize child-centric disaster resilience strategies. Haynes also contributes to global initiatives like the Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires and has published extensively on disaster preparedness and recovery.
